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Show HN: my weekend(s) project, instant websites
- pawelwentpawel 15y agoreally like the idea, good job! would probably come quite useful for a number of my friends. Home page is a bit confusing and empty though, takes a second to realize what it is. Also the preview of the list view (the first thing I've seen after inputting my userid) is a bit narrow, embedded youtube videos seem to jump out of the div but I guess it's not a massive problem ;)
- ed209 15y agoThanks for the feedback. Mentioned in the comments is having a couple of example users to try and get the concept across quicker. I'm also opening up the site designs for anyone to make ( http://qiip.me/create http://qiip.me/create ) as there are much better designers out there than me :) Do like a ThemeForest marketplace.
- nc 15y agoUnrelated, but which font are you using for the tagline "Beautifully Simple Websites" ?
- ed209 15y agoIt's "Bree Serif", available for free from here http://www.type-together.com/index.php?action=portal/viewContent&cntId_content=2982&id_section=165 http://www.type-together.com/index.php?action=portal/viewCon...
- zerostar07 15y agoCouple that with the ability to buy my own domain right away and you 've got a business
- suhastech 15y agoIn the google plus demo thing, by default, you could autofill the ID with someone famous like Robert Scoble .. For people like me who are not active on G+ (thats pretty much everyone)
- ed209 15y agoDo you think that's an ok thing to do? I mean wouldn't Scoble have a right to be annoyed that I'm using his posts :) Certainly be adding some examples though, but here's mine for now http://qiip.me/edlea http://qiip.me/edlea
- sologoub 15y agoYou definitely should ask for permission, but Scoble would be a great example, as he actually "blogs" on G+. Many of his posts are quite long and seem like a good fit for this concept.
- suhastech 15y agoSilly me, I took me a few minutes to understand the concept. In a user perspective, "Try Now" or the "See Demo" is the first button I press before reading anything. I think you need to tweak a little bit of that workflow. Otherwise, great app!
- ed209 15y agoActually, I'm finding it a bit hard to get the concept across quickly. That's why I added the try now functionality. Do you think a video is worthwhile?
- simon_weber 15y agoYour g+ and example site made it immediately clear to me. Maybe make that more prominent? Cool project, by the way.
- suhastech 15y agoI'm no UI designer but asking the user to scramble for his G+ ID just for a demo is probably not the best thing to do. On the homepage, you could have a conveyor belt like imagery where twitter, facebook and G+ icons come out as a "qiip". Below that you could have buttons like "See example" and "Signup" etc etc.
- cleverjake 15y agogorgeous work, great job!
- ed209 15y agowow, thanks! makes a difference to hear it.
- paulovsk 15y agoNice! I've registered and kinda like it. Integrate with facebook would be hard?
- ed209 15y agoThanks! Maybe Facebook pages might be better suited. It's on the list of services to hook up with though.
- ed209 15y agoSorry folks... Rackspace server re-size in progress :( brb
- vidhoonv 15y agoAwesome work! It did take five mins to understand what the service was. But wonderful piece of thought! :) +1
- realschool 15y agoThere was an article recently about how all the low end development/design will be done without developers/designers and only high end will need people. Tools like this seem to be propagating that idea.
- sunsu 15y agoI created a similar open source project that lets you host a blog powered by your Google+ profile: https://github.com/lylepratt/Plusify https://github.com/lylepratt/Plusify