[HN Gopher] Show HN: Singlelink - an open-source micro-site plat... ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: Singlelink - an open-source micro-site platform Author : drewboyle Score : 21 points Date : 2021-03-09 20:59 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (singlelink.co) (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! :) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-03-09 23:01 UTC)