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I'm a developer turned founder and I've considered using Readme.io. The ability to defer work in the exchange for time is king for me right now. In my experienc
by wwalser 10y ago
I'm a developer turned founder and I've considered using Readme.io. The ability to defer work in the exchange for time is king for me right now. In my experience, setting up another Google Cloud project (this could be cloudfront, heroku or w/e), selecting a static site generator, finding a theme and the inevitable customization that comes with that is significantly more than 15 minutes. Then of course once it's all done I'll have something that's sub-par from multiple perspectives: SEO, information architecture, no search built in, design doesn't quite match my brand.
In the end the price point put me off enough for me to go in another direction. Yes, it would save time and that time would absolutely be worth $59 or $199 here and now. Maybe even that much every month for three months. At some point though I'm going to run the books and see that I've paid $2k for something I could have built myself in a day. Hopefully when that happens the company is at a point where that is a complete no-brainer "I'm glad I made that call", but there's no guarantee of that. Most companies fail and all that jazz.
We're bootstrapped so the equation may be different if we raised money. I assume that's a significant part of their customer base.
- edoceo 10y agoI'm in the same spot. I use asciidoctor. I roughed in our API doc's and then had another dev from my community review. Quality is now good, style could use a little tweaking but at this point it seems like "just a little CSS"