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Slightly off-topic: I love the simplicity of your website design. Did you make it yourself, or use a template/theme?

• mholt 8y ago
  Thanks - I'm kinda surprised to hear that feedback, since I made it myself real quick as a holdover while we launched... we have plans to fill it out a little more. The pages will all be revamped, but now we'll focus on keeping it simple. (I make all my sites without templates/themes -- from-scratch HTML in an editor, because that's what I'm used to... it doesn't take very long and I know 100% what's going on as I make it. My cofounder Cory is more of the front-end guru though so we'll use the best tools between what we know!)
  • keldaris 8y ago
    Your website is an example of what good web design should look like. It's fast, clean, doesn't load extraneous crap and almost all of it works without JavaScript (which I block by default). Most "Show HN" posts I open and close immediately when I see (or, often enough, don't see anything at all) their website. Instead, you have a new trial subscriber.
    • mholt 8y ago
      Awesome, that's great to know! Thank you -- we'll try to keep to it.
      • keldaris 8y ago
        This is very off-topic, but if you ever feel like sharing your web development process in a blog post (or any other medium), describing how you stay productive doing a website from scratch, I'd love to read and share it. There is a real shortage of modern web development material that doesn't start with "download bloated framework X along with Y different tools for no particular reason". Just a thought. :)
        • nicoburns 8y ago
          You can get a long way with a static site generator (hugo, jekyll, etc) and SASS (and optionally a minimal framework like inuit.css which mainly deals with keeping your padding/margins/line-heights consistent).
        • mholt 8y ago
          I like that idea -- going to find some time to write!