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Show HN: Bootstrapped, Not Profitable Yet, & Proud: Pagify

44 points by johnnytee 16y ago

I've been working on an app in my spare time for about the past 6 months in between my day job and taking care of my 10 month old daughter. I'm launching a beta today and would love to get the communities feedback. It's called Pagify and it's an app that allows you to build custom Facebook tabs using their new iframe method. I'm quite proud of the fact that I actually got this out the door. This past year my life has been quite hectic. Let me know your thoughts and give me a "Like" if so inclined :). Thanks View the app at http://pagifyapp.com Skip the Marketing stuff and go straight to the app at http://app.pagifyapp.com

johnnytee 16y ago
Clickable http://pagifyapp.com http://pagifyapp.com
geoffw8 16y ago
I like it a lot! From the design, to the music accompanying the video, to the way it looks so simple to use! Looks like you've done a great job. To be honest, we'll probably use it ourselves!
blparker 16y ago
Great work. Looks professional and polished.
Skywing 16y ago
Looks very nice. Did you do all of the design work, or is this a purchased template? It looks great.
- johnnytee 16y ago
  Thanks everyone for the feedback so far! I did the custom design work, but I'm using a WooTheme - Inspire as the base: http://www.woothemes.com/2010/05/inspire/ http://www.woothemes.com/2010/05/inspire/
asmithstudio 16y ago
Glad to see this go live.
HardyLeung 16y ago
this is a wonderful and easily monetizable application. Hope you're successful in bringing this to the mass. Two very minor aesthetic suggestions: (1) when I hit the play button, it should play automatically instead of just bringing up the popup, (2) plan & pricing ... I think it is better you say something about the plan rather than "free for now".
- johnnytee 16y ago
  thx, those suggestions do make sense. I'll implement those tonight:)
rumpelstiltskin 16y ago
Great design! How are you taking payments?
- johnnytee 16y ago
  Thx, I'll be implementing Recurly.com , I should be finished with that in a few days.
huuleon 16y ago
Great work. I just tried it out and the process was very simple and easy. Keep it up. Good luck
- johnnytee 16y ago
  great, thx for trying it out. after bustin my ass for 6 months it's nice to know the process works:)
JohnPlummer 16y ago
Congratulations, nice idea.
jvdmeij 16y ago
Such a cool product. The Wordpress for Facebook pages. Great stuff. Hats off. Some small hints while using it. * When editing your page it automatically saves, at least that is what the message tells you. But after clicking the upgrade banner top left and going back, my changes are lost. Using the latest Chome stable on Mac btw. After publishing the page, my changes were there though. * Open the page result in a new window, so I can easily go back and tweak more * When clicking on a header in the final page, I would like for it to close so I can easily open the next one. * I am missing a feature to delete the whole page * (Pro version?) I would like to rename the page as well as the page icon * (Pro version?) Would love to add and edit more pages * (Pro version?) Be able to change the style of the page (colours, fonts, borders ,..)
- johnnytee 16y ago
  thx for testing it out, this is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. I'll look into the changes not reflecting when hitting the back button. Also thanks for the other suggestions I'll look into to implementing these. I know you can change the tab name in Facebook now by editing the app from within your page.
  - jvdmeij 16y ago
    Not a problem. Send me a message if you want to me look at a later version. And yes I know you can do it on Facebook. But I am using your app to make my life easier. It is impossible to find anything on Facebook these days as an admin. Help me solve that problem! That is a nice mission for your app, right :)
    - johnnytee 16y ago
      good call ;)
ticktock 16y ago
page is frozen - latest chromium says - waiting for pixel.quantserve.com... this started happening after I tried uploading an image for a FB page and got a flash error which crashed the tab... looks good though - i'll try again later, it's probably getting hammered
jeffepp 16y ago
Very cool. When you do decide to start charging, I would charge > $5. Super easy to use. I would buy right now :)
- johnnytee 16y ago
  Thanks Jeff for your input :)
  - jeffepp 16y ago
    Sure, let me also suggest a "save" or "update" button. It was unclear if I needed to do anything else once I added the widget.
ticktock 16y ago
does a facebook fan page ever get indexed by google ? in particular, is your app going to allow google bots in?
nader 16y ago
I just tried this out for http://thinkery.me http://thinkery.me and it's pretty cool. An option to change the color scheme would be great. Here's the facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/thinkery?sk=app_141947329155355 http://www.facebook.com/thinkery?sk=app_141947329155355
- johnnytee 16y ago
  awesome, yep that's an upcoming feature:)
netincome 16y ago
great app

Show HN: Bootstrapped, Not Profitable *Yet*, & Proud: Pagify

44 points by johnnytee 16y ago

johnnytee 16y ago

Clickable http://pagifyapp.com http://pagifyapp.com

geoffw8 16y ago

I like it a lot! From the design, to the music accompanying the video, to the way it looks so simple to use! Looks like you've done a great job. To be honest, we'll probably use it ourselves!

blparker 16y ago

Great work. Looks professional and polished.

Skywing 16y ago

Looks very nice. Did you do all of the design work, or is this a purchased template? It looks great.

johnnytee 16y ago
Thanks everyone for the feedback so far! I did the custom design work, but I'm using a WooTheme - Inspire as the base: http://www.woothemes.com/2010/05/inspire/ http://www.woothemes.com/2010/05/inspire/

asmithstudio 16y ago

Glad to see this go live.

HardyLeung 16y ago

this is a wonderful and easily monetizable application. Hope you're successful in bringing this to the mass. Two very minor aesthetic suggestions: (1) when I hit the play button, it should play automatically instead of just bringing up the popup, (2) plan & pricing ... I think it is better you say something about the plan rather than "free for now".

johnnytee 16y ago
thx, those suggestions do make sense. I'll implement those tonight:)

rumpelstiltskin 16y ago

Great design! How are you taking payments?

johnnytee 16y ago
Thx, I'll be implementing Recurly.com , I should be finished with that in a few days.

huuleon 16y ago

Great work. I just tried it out and the process was very simple and easy. Keep it up. Good luck

johnnytee 16y ago
great, thx for trying it out. after bustin my ass for 6 months it's nice to know the process works:)

JohnPlummer 16y ago

Congratulations, nice idea.

jvdmeij 16y ago

Such a cool product. The Wordpress for Facebook pages. Great stuff. Hats off. Some small hints while using it. * When editing your page it automatically saves, at least that is what the message tells you. But after clicking the upgrade banner top left and going back, my changes are lost. Using the latest Chome stable on Mac btw. After publishing the page, my changes were there though. * Open the page result in a new window, so I can easily go back and tweak more * When clicking on a header in the final page, I would like for it to close so I can easily open the next one. * I am missing a feature to delete the whole page * (Pro version?) I would like to rename the page as well as the page icon * (Pro version?) Would love to add and edit more pages * (Pro version?) Be able to change the style of the page (colours, fonts, borders ,..)

johnnytee 16y ago
thx for testing it out, this is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. I'll look into the changes not reflecting when hitting the back button. Also thanks for the other suggestions I'll look into to implementing these. I know you can change the tab name in Facebook now by editing the app from within your page.
- jvdmeij 16y ago
  Not a problem. Send me a message if you want to me look at a later version. And yes I know you can do it on Facebook. But I am using your app to make my life easier. It is impossible to find anything on Facebook these days as an admin. Help me solve that problem! That is a nice mission for your app, right :)
  - johnnytee 16y ago
    good call ;)

ticktock 16y ago

page is frozen - latest chromium says - waiting for pixel.quantserve.com... this started happening after I tried uploading an image for a FB page and got a flash error which crashed the tab... looks good though - i'll try again later, it's probably getting hammered

jeffepp 16y ago

Very cool. When you do decide to start charging, I would charge > $5. Super easy to use. I would buy right now :)

johnnytee 16y ago
Thanks Jeff for your input :)
- jeffepp 16y ago
  Sure, let me also suggest a "save" or "update" button. It was unclear if I needed to do anything else once I added the widget.

ticktock 16y ago

does a facebook fan page ever get indexed by google ? in particular, is your app going to allow google bots in?

nader 16y ago

I just tried this out for http://thinkery.me http://thinkery.me and it's pretty cool. An option to change the color scheme would be great. Here's the facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/thinkery?sk=app_141947329155355 http://www.facebook.com/thinkery?sk=app_141947329155355

johnnytee 16y ago
awesome, yep that's an upcoming feature:)

netincome 16y ago

great app