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Trying to make building customized websites suck less. Have you ever tried to build a MediaWiki site with extensions, or an osCommerce/Zencart site with contrib
by flooha 17y ago
Trying to make building customized websites suck less. Have you ever tried to build a MediaWiki site with extensions, or an osCommerce/Zencart site with contributions? It sucks so bad, I'd rather claw my eyes out. Most of the installation instructions consist of:
Open this file.
Find this code.
Paste this code before it.
Paste this code after it.
Save the file.
Rinse and repeat for 10 more files.
Upload and pray.
Error
Troubleshoot
Insert the missing semi-colon
Upload and pray.
Rinse and repeat.
On top of that, you have thousands of people all over the internet doing exactly the same thing. again. and again. and again. What a waste of human effort!
My answer: http://flooha.com http://flooha.com
Choose your app, choose your add-ons, build it, install it, done. So easy anyone can do it. No downloading, unzipping, reading instructions, opening files, copying, pasting, comparing, merging, uploading, etc... Just clicking. Uploading addons is as easy as filling out some form info and uploading a zip file.
The site is live, but I have not yet "launched", meaning that I haven't done an ounce of marketing. I had actually planned a "Please review my app" post on HN on Tuesday, but I couldn't resist this tread.