[HN Gopher] Show HN: Singlelink - an open-source micro-site plat...
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Show HN: Singlelink - an open-source micro-site platform
Author : drewboyle
Score : 21 points
Date : 2021-03-09 20:59 UTC (2 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (singlelink.co)
| san_dimitri wrote:
| How is this completely different from about.me pages? Can someone
| explain the difference between the two?
| Cenk wrote:
| It's more similar to Linktree - basically a link you put in
| your social media profile, and then from there you link to
| other things. A bit like boook.link (but that's only for books)
| san_dimitri wrote:
| I see. Now it makes more sense. Thanks for the other links. I
| never knew about boook.link, it seems to be a very fun idea.
| jimbisenius wrote:
| Howdy Sam!
|
| About.me is a similar tool, but they're not open-source. This
| means you can't self-host your page for free if you wish, fork
| & make changes to the codebase if you want to add a new
| feature, or verify that the code handles your information how
| you would expect.
|
| To us, this means about.me is a tool you can build with,
| whereas Singlelink is a platform you can build on top of.
|
| Let me know if I can clarify any more, I hope this helps! :)
| sneak wrote:
| It's a little bit misleading to list "limited advertisements" as
| a green check-mark feature of the free plan.
|
| Not only does it put a bad taste in my mouth (it looks like
| you're trying to obscure the fact that free has ads), a quick
| scan of the pricing page doesn't illuminate why I'd want to pay
| $8/mo for the next tier (which would remove the ads, I take it?).
|
| It's also unclear if free supports using your own domain or not.
| The pricing page should probably make it a lot plainer that you
| pay to get a custom domain and no ads if that's indeed the case.
|
| EDIT: The singlel.ink domain is a nice domain hack but the period
| breaks it in a weird place and I bet you're going to run into
| issues with it confusing people and them putting the dot in the
| wrong place.
| jimbisenius wrote:
| Thanks for the taking the time to look through our website,
| appreciate the feedback!
|
| We're sorry to hear you've got a bad taste in your mouth from
| our pricing page, I'll have to rethink how we present this. By
| "limited advertisement", we generally mean less than the
| competitors (no forced watermark at the bottom of your site),
| but there's no examples to demonstrate that. You make valid
| points about how we can better present our features to
| interested users - and we certainly don't want to hide
| anything.
|
| At this time, we plan to keep custom domains free and charge on
| a per-profile basis, however we might end up having different
| tiers of custom domain support (one might be simpler than the
| other to setup).
|
| Additionally, I will add that we've made all the features
| available in our paid tiers available free in our Github for
| those that decide to self-host. Our eventual goal is for the
| community marketplace (when monetized) to generate enough
| revenue to reduce paywalls on features and limit monetization
| mainly to marketplace purchases, but we'll see what traction we
| can get. In retrospect, I could emphasize these more on the
| website.
|
| I hope I made myself clear! Again, I really appreciate the
| feedback, and we'll keep these in mind as we make changes of
| the next week! :)
| CertifiGroup wrote:
| Awesome I need one!
| [deleted]
| benatkin wrote:
| I dig the name, it reminds me of singletrack mountain biking,
| which is one of the funnest things I've done.
| jimbisenius wrote:
| Howdy everyone!
|
| I'm Jim, co-founder of Singlelink. We're a three man team based
| in Raleigh, NC that loves open-source software.
|
| Our goal is to bridge the gap between micro-sites and websites by
| creating an open-source micro-site platform with the ease of
| tools like Linktree and the plugins/themes & extensibility of
| WordPress.
|
| It's still in beta while we're ironing out bugs and adding
| plugins & monetization, but we hope you can find it useful.
|
| Please, let us know your thoughts! We love feedback :)
| smoldesu wrote:
| What separates Singlelink from other CMS platforms? Why should
| I use it if you'll impose "limited advertising" on my
| microsite?
| jimbisenius wrote:
| In regards to "limited advertising" (an optional watermark on
| your site, and a "Singlelink" watermark in your SEO title),
| we only add this for our "cloud-hosted" customers that use
| our free tier.
|
| Just like WordPress & wordpress.com, you can self-host
| Singlelink with a platform like DigitalOcean or AWS to get
| instant access to our paid features! (singlelink.co is 100%
| open-source at the moment, and the only thing we plan to
| close-source is billing)
|
| I hope I answered your question! Appreciate the comment :)
| panic wrote:
| This is a cool idea -- giving people a way to grow their site
| from a list of links to something more complex makes a lot of
| sense. That said, and I know criticisms like this are a bit of
| a cliche at this point on HN, but why does a static list of
| links need to download 18MB of JavaScript, show a progress bar,
| and modify the scrolling behavior of the page? I assume at some
| point in the future this JS will be useful for adding more
| advanced features to people's sites, but it might be worth
| paring it down to just what's actually necessary for the kind
| of page it is.
| [deleted]
| pm wrote:
| What exactly is a "micro-site"?
| jimbisenius wrote:
| Thanks for the question!
|
| In general, it's a small website built to complement an
| existing website/set of websites. Traditionally, these have
| been used for Instagram/Twitter profiles to fit more than the
| one allotted link in a bio, but our users use them for a so
| much more! (ex: internal team bookmarks archive, simple
| product page/checkouts, adding a paywall to a small
| page/item, or simply using them as their website for ease of
| use)
|
| Hope I explained myself well! :)
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