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Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by badsectoracula » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 4:51 AM UTC

cortesoft wrote: post #72

Sephr wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, this is just a usability issue for sure. Unfortunately for me, I didn't want to click "sign up" until after I could locate the pricing, leading me into a catch-22 situation.

Did you think it would sign you up without confirmation or something? It seems strange to me to not want to hit sign up to see how much it would cost.

Personally it never even occurred to me that the "sign up" button would show pricing - in fact it wasn't even apparent that this was a paid product. Usually services have a separate "pricing" link somewhere at the top that explain things.

I pretty much never click on "sign up" buttons unless i have already been convinced the service is something i want to sign up for.

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by khobragade » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 5:11 AM UTC

LanzVonL wrote: post #42

S-so does Apache?

Apache only listens to us nerds

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

#83

Post by porridgeraisin » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 5:11 AM UTC

djbusby wrote: post #74

quickthrower2 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now how do I serve my micro service from here? Just drop in a js, py or rb file :-) What if I drop in a tf file?

WTF is "tf"?

Terraform i assume

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by khobragade » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 5:15 AM UTC

I sort of have a bad taste about this project. I'll use proper support channels and won't rant here, but what happened was that my card was being declined trying to sign up. Thought I could self-host on a linode somewhere given the code is in the public domain, but there is no documentation :/

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by Brajeshwar » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 5:19 AM UTC

hkon wrote: post #55

puttycat wrote: post #53

Can someone explain this to us 35+ year olds? What am I missing?

It's like if dropbox automatically exposed your files on the web.

Drop had that features. I was warned multiple times when I started hosting my file download away from my website host to Dropbox.

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by voidfunc » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 6:21 AM UTC

cortesoft wrote: post #72

Sephr wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, this is just a usability issue for sure. Unfortunately for me, I didn't want to click "sign up" until after I could locate the pricing, leading me into a catch-22 situation.

Did you think it would sign you up without confirmation or something? It seems strange to me to not want to hit sign up to see how much it would cost.

I agree sign-up is not how I would look for pricing. Sign-up is something I click when I'm ready to commit to using but until then I'm looking for information and I expect something like a Pricing page.

If I can't find the pricing I'm never going to click "sign up"

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by swells34 » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 6:48 AM UTC

cortesoft wrote: post #72

Sephr wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, this is just a usability issue for sure. Unfortunately for me, I didn't want to click "sign up" until after I could locate the pricing, leading me into a catch-22 situation.

Did you think it would sign you up without confirmation or something? It seems strange to me to not want to hit sign up to see how much it would cost.

I think of a "sign up" button as something I click after I've chosen to use that product. The button click signals my intent to do so. Having to click it to see pricing is something that would just not happen for me, because I'd never intend to sign up without seeing pricing.

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by dgam » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 7:01 AM UTC

Sephr wrote: post #52

dgam wrote: post #33

I announced Blot on Hacker News almost 10 years ago. Thank you all for helping to get it started. It was a nice surprise to see it posted again here today. The goal of Blot is to bring the benefits of the static site generator to people who haven't heard of static site generators

Please increase your pricing transparency. I could not easily figure out the price of your hosted service without having to use a search engine. Blot[1] (open source software) turns a folder into a website, and blot.im offers a hosted Blot service for $5/mo. 1. https://github.com/davidmerfield/blot

Fair point – I have just added:

https://blot.im/pricing

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 7:03 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #7

Related. Others? Blot is a blogging platform with no interface. It turns a folder into a website - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32041158 - July 2022 (9 comments) Blot – a blogging platform with no interface - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17314858 - June 2018 (120 comments) Blot – blogging from a Dropbox folder - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10078031 - Aug 2015 (17 comments) Show HN: Blot, a st…

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Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by _0vzt » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 7:11 AM UTC

khobragade wrote: post #84

I sort of have a bad taste about this project. I'll use proper support channels and won't rant here, but what happened was that my card was being declined trying to sign up. Thought I could self-host on a linode somewhere given the code is in the public domain, but there is no documentation :/

Is it possible that you are in India and affected by recurring billing regulations? Email us and we'll get you up and running:

https://blot.im/contact