Somebody.io

@rahulmfg This is certainly a crowded market, but we still feel like there is room... One of the hardest parts of building a website with one of these tools is the choice paralysis. First, you need to figure out which tool to use (certainly building another tool doesn't exactly help with this). But then, you need to choose how you use that tool: which template, which font, which colors, which layout, etc. Because the products in this space want to stand out from each other, they are constantly in pursuit of adding more templates, more integrations, more stuff... With Somebody, we want to do the opposite: Offer less stuff. We believe that constraints for a product like this are a massive help to the user... I've written more about this here: https://medium.com/@maxdeutsch/t.... Ultimately, we've built what we believe is the best product that gets users to a published site as soon as possible.

@_maxdeutsch @rahulmfg @maxdeutsch you are right, there is more room. I would like to speak to you about it. I created, https://www.producthunt.com/tech...

@m4murice @rahulmfg @maxdeutsch send me an email with your idea/pitch. I'd love to hear. You can find my email on my Somebody site :) http://maxdeutsch.somebody.io/

@_maxdeutsch @maxdeutsch Nice okay 😊 👍

@_maxdeutsch @rahulmfg @maxdeutsch Thanks. i will send you a message shortly

@gadgick Thanks, Nick! Right now, we are keeping it really simple - so the colors and layout are fixed (we actually think this makes for a better experience...at least at this stage). As far as custom domains, this is currently a possibility, but will require you to upgrade to Somebody Pro (for ~$4/mo, which we think is a pretty competitive price). Mostly, this is how we plan to subsidize hosting fees.

@_maxdeutsch Ok thanks! What do you get with Pro? Would be good to maybe include that on the site e.g. free vs pro. Also would recommend using SSL particularly the login/sign up.

@gadgick right now, Pro only features the ability to connect a custom domain name. So either you connect a domain you currently own or you can get a new one (the Pro subscription comes with one free domain name). We don't show free vs pro on the homepage because we are trying to reduce choice paralysis upfront as much as possible - we want you to first completely focus on building a great site, and then you can figure out what domain name you'd like. SSL is a good suggestion... Thanks

@_maxdeutsch Thanks Max, thinking about the free vs pro on the site is a good move. I'd still love to be able to customise it, particularly colour scheme... Adobe Portfolio does this w/ the CC subscription. Please add SSL... I work for a security company & it pains me when I don't see websites encrypt auth (in fact anything nowadays) data!

@aparkhills For me, it's three things: 1) We are really focused on being "the easiest" and this means removing as many possible choices as we can, so you can get an awesome site published ASAP (we find that a lot of people fail to publish in this space). 2) We are focused on helping you craft a great story about yourself, again without too many distractions (hopefully, in a similar way to how Medium makes it easy to "just write"). 3) Our format is skewed towards those that have the need for a portfolio/want to show off their projects (i.e. developers, designers, entrepreneurs, creatives, etc.). We are certainly not the first product in this space (definitely a lot of other options), but hopefully our different angle and design sensibilities resonate with at least some people. We recognize, even with all the options out there, that most people still don't have a personal site -- so we hope to help with that.

@gabriel__lewis Hopefully, it's not a challenge at all :)

@gianluca_tursi Hey Gianluca. Glad you like the site! We are always happy to hear feature ideas, so thank you for your suggestion. That being said, we are very thoughtful about the features we add (since we want to keep Somebody as simple as possible). Here's a piece I wrote on Medium about how we embraced constraints to build Somebody: https://medium.com/@maxdeutsch/t...

@scott_kutler Scott, your site looks awesome! Thanks for the feedback... This is something we are working on. Right now, somebody looks perfect if you have 3 or more projects. 1 or 2 project still gets the job done (your site is a great example), but we definitely can tighten up the formatting when there are only a couple of projects.