[HN Gopher] Ahoyo - Build a single-page online presence
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Ahoyo - Build a single-page online presence
Author : platformx
Score : 62 points
Date : 2021-04-10 13:06 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (ahoyo.to)
(TXT) w3m dump (ahoyo.to)
| simonhamp wrote:
| My website is a single page, HTML only (no trackers or cookies),
| very little CSS and JS. "responsive" without any media queries
| and only a few images.
|
| It's completely free to host on Netlify.
|
| I don't market it heavily and I don't know how much traffic it
| gets - and I don't care. I completely own it and it does its job.
|
| Why would I pass this off to some company?
| helsinkiandrew wrote:
| Because you don't know HTML, CSS, And you want SEO and
| analytics.
|
| I'd guess the target is not the usual HN demographic.
| FL33TW00D wrote:
| You have a spelling mistake in "consultation".
| have_faith wrote:
| That's great but why is that relevant? can non technical people
| reach feature parity with what Ohayo is offering using your
| approach without wasting time (money) on learning how to cobble
| a site together?
| simonhamp wrote:
| Are those people on HN?
| Nextgrid wrote:
| No custom domains support?
| vngzs wrote:
| Seriously. I can't imagine a business entity that needs a high-
| conversion landing page, but can tolerate not owning a domain
| for it. If my therapist's page (from their examples) was
| ahoyo.to/amazing-therapy, I'd probably start looking for a new
| one.
| twobitshifter wrote:
| It works for Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, the only
| difference is a few billion users.
| williamdclt wrote:
| > I'd probably start looking for a new one.
|
| You might, but I think most people would not (for example:
| me, I don't care one bit). Most people wouldn't even notice
| the domain, and most people wouldn't know what to do with
| this information ("the URL is ahoyo.to/amazing-therapy and
| not amazing-therapy.com? OK, what does that mean?").
| threatofrain wrote:
| Correct or not, I would bet most people have the noisy
| association that different domains means different entities
| as far as credibility works.
|
| In other words, mimicking the look of a bank is probably
| good enough to make money, but not enough to make most
| people believe without the domain.
| fortran77 wrote:
| I agree. And for many of these use-cases a "Facebook" page
| for the business would be fine. I know how we all love to
| hate facebook here, but for many small businesses--like the
| guy who fixes our neon signs--the Facebook brand page works
| great.
| tyingq wrote:
| _" Instead of building your own domain's reputation, enjoy the
| SEO tailwind of our amazing community."_
|
| I wonder what that means. I see that "my" pages have outbound
| links to Ahoyo general use pages. But is there some way any of
| that "link juice" comes back to my Ahoyo page?
| enumjorge wrote:
| The no personal domain is antithetical to the stated purpose
| of building your own brand. And given that this is a new
| site, with no Twitter presence and no already well known
| person behind it (that I could find), it's silly to say
| you'll get anything out of the "SEO tailwind" they allegedly
| already have.
| rq1 wrote:
| Ahoyo = Yahoo ?
| londons_explore wrote:
| "Forever free"... Means for 3 years until the VC funding runs out
| and then you lose all your stuff...
| thefourthchime wrote:
| I got a 500 after the user creation page.
| J_cst wrote:
| Same for me
| hdctambien wrote:
| Is this the same thing as about.me?
|
| I signed up for that 10? years ago when I saw it on hacker news
| [1]. And that was apparently just a clone of flavors.me
|
| Are these just sites that ask you to enter a ton of personal data
| so they can sell it?
|
| Or are people benefiting from this? More than a LinkedIn or
| Twitter or Instagram or wix or Google site or free hosted
| WordPress or medium?
|
| I had an idea for a site sellmyinfo.com where you enter your info
| and I'd split the profits of selling it with you. Maybe that idea
| has wings?
|
| [1] I must have seen an article 4 days before this, but
| "about.me" is hard to Google for
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2025764
| solmanac wrote:
| If you are being serious, how about you start that sell my info
| site? In the process you'd get insights into the flow of money
| and information among the companies in that industry and then
| share that with us as well.
| jiofih wrote:
| Oh come on. It takes 30s to read trough their website and
| feature list to see that no, this has absolutely nothing to do
| with about.me. It's mostly for business.
| z77dj3kl wrote:
| Hosting a site like this doesn't cost much, their business
| model is probably to add additional paid features as they go.
|
| It's nothing new, but I also don't think it's nefarious.
| 13415 wrote:
| Well, nobody uses these sites but they try to get a larger user
| base, probably in the hope of later monetization. You can't
| blame them for that, maybe one of them someday becomes popular.
| the__alchemist wrote:
| These 1-page example pages are pretty heavy:
| https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...
|
| 17 on Page Speed Insights. Lots of background scripts or
| something?
| nametagwork wrote:
| Pretty cool! Definitely think there's a market to go even easier
| than Webflow.
| tyingq wrote:
| "Yo ahoyo" would be "I drown" in Spanish. That's not a
| showstopper, but it does make me curious about the story behind
| the choice of the Ahoyo name.
| [deleted]
| Teichopsia wrote:
| You're thinking of "ahogo". "Ahoyo" doesn't have a meaning but
| "hoyo" does and it means hole.
| ecedeno wrote:
| Ahoyo does have a meaning. It's a conjugation of the (not
| commonly used) verb ahoyar https://dle.rae.es/ahoyar
| contravariant wrote:
| So it means 'I dig a hole'?
| ecedeno wrote:
| Not exactly. The direct translation for "I dig a hole" is
| "Yo cavo un hoyo" which maps all words one to one. A more
| general translation "yo hago un hoyo" (verb. to make),
| removes the need for the hole to be dug and can be used
| for holes you cut or rip as well. There are very few
| cases where you are not better served by the verbs to dig
| or to make, and I don't think I've ever heard anyone use
| ahoyar before.
|
| It means "I dig the hole(s)"
|
| Example: Yo ahoyo, tu plantas -> I dig the hole(s), you
| plant [the tree(s)]
| qeternity wrote:
| Given the nautical theme, I think it's just a play on "ahoy".
| jotadambalakiri wrote:
| Maybe don't include my location without asking?
| soheilpro wrote:
| Shameless plug: If you want something similar for your Spotify
| profile, you can try https://volt.fm
| math-dev wrote:
| Wow! So much negativity about this website - I don't think its
| deserved. They are trying to build a business, and are not doing
| anything nefarious, so no need to hate.
|
| Maybe they fail, maybe they succeed.
|
| I personally build my website on html / css / github pages, but
| there are many others who want a different solution, whether it
| be wordpress or ahoyo.
| Flex247A wrote:
| How do I delete my account?
| wedn3sday wrote:
| hug of death?
| elvynmejia wrote:
| The site is down
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