Show HN: Straw.Page – Extremely simple website builder(straw.page)
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Show HN: Straw.Page – Extremely simple website builder
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i'm convinced this style is the next big thing in web UI - at least for startups/simple web tools/anything more dekstop-oriented than mobile-oriented.
it's such great a rejection of all the stale, boring, "clean" UI convention that we're drowning in today.
it's not just nostalgia - it's fun, it's rebellious, it has real character. it shouts "I'm having fun, why shouldn't you?"
it's such great a rejection of all the stale, boring, "clean" UI convention that we're drowning in today.
it's not just nostalgia - it's fun, it's rebellious, it has real character. it shouts "I'm having fun, why shouldn't you?"
This has been trendy for a few years now. It’s not quite “brutalist” because the nostalgic aspect references design that certainly was state of the art for its time. But it has brutalist artistic instincts.
I don’t think more modern/clean designs have to be devoid of fun/rebelliousness or lack character (I’m working on a site that IMO intersects both, it’s very much a WIP but feel free to check out [my handle].github.io if you want to see it in its infancy). But it certainly does tend to hew toward the easy.
The only thing I disagree with in your comment is that it necessarily has character. At a certain point the retro design trend will be so commonplace that it’s also hewing easy and a fairly straight shot from “I want brand to be fun”. I hope it doesn’t reach that point though, because I quite like being surprised by the occasional 90s-style graphics.
I don’t think more modern/clean designs have to be devoid of fun/rebelliousness or lack character (I’m working on a site that IMO intersects both, it’s very much a WIP but feel free to check out [my handle].github.io if you want to see it in its infancy). But it certainly does tend to hew toward the easy.
The only thing I disagree with in your comment is that it necessarily has character. At a certain point the retro design trend will be so commonplace that it’s also hewing easy and a fairly straight shot from “I want brand to be fun”. I hope it doesn’t reach that point though, because I quite like being surprised by the occasional 90s-style graphics.
I really enjoyed the comparison with brutalism here. One of the goals of brutalism was to show off how large public spaces could be constructed for and by the masses out of basic materials. Really fits in with the intent of the lined project!
This was sorta the intent of both the compare and contrast! The big difference with the retro computer graphics revival is that computing in the 90s had a long way to go before being for & by everyone. I don’t think the modern/clean design sensibilities are tied to that though, Myspace was really the inflection point and definitely deserved the brutalist label.
I enjoy how one can read your comment for two completely opposed meanings.
I'm currently building a website with this kind of rectangular design language and I'm really digging it.
My web app was rocking squared off design circa 2014. In 2018 we hired a designer and the first order of business was to round all the things. I hated it! But, our users loved it. Strange world.
Best thing I've read in a while, thank you! :)
This reminds me a bit of https://carrd.co, though less featureful and about the same pricing. It's interesting to see this resurgence of "microsite" builders.
Maybe I'm missing something here.. the interface is way out there, yet the precooked themes are all pretty much in line with current web design trends. Based on the homepage I was expecting to build a crazy Win95 style website
The main thing is people can design their own site in the editor. Most site builders that let you do this are usually too complicated (Webflow), and the others lack customisability (Squarespace).
It doesn't make sense to offer only brutalist themes, but users are given the tools to do so.
Some people have made some cool, weird-looking sites already whilst others have built more clean ones.
It doesn't make sense to offer only brutalist themes, but users are given the tools to do so.
Some people have made some cool, weird-looking sites already whilst others have built more clean ones.
Nice, really like some of the examples, might use this someday for some quick project.
Would like an option to pay something and download the html to self host. I did the see the one time signup and custom url.
Would like an option to pay something and download the html to self host. I did the see the one time signup and custom url.
The editor itself looks very good - I really like grid-based approach
edit: whoah, the pricing is also incredibly cheap! 18$ a year, most similar services charge tens of dollars a month with similar features
edit: whoah, the pricing is also incredibly cheap! 18$ a year, most similar services charge tens of dollars a month with similar features
Great UI. Out of curiosity, does a user's website have to be hosted at straw.page, or can they take the generated website and host it on any static website host?
Thanks! Currently everything is hosted on Straw.page - I'm planning on adding an export feature for premium users soon
This is fantastic!
To that end, here's some cool libraries and resources to get you started. What's awesome is that since we are in 2021 this design language can be married with the power of modern web frameworks to make something extraordinary.
https://thesephist.github.io/blocks.css/
https://jdan.github.io/98.css/
https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalGardens/