The road to launch...(blog.clutterme.com)
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The road to launch...
http://blog.clutterme.com/2007/09/road-to-launch.html
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It's sad to say, but I have to agree. That the homepage market looks quite crowded.
After seeing the eZ Website Creator, I was quite impressed and that seems a lot better than the Homepage theory. What was the problem with that?
You mentioned that you wanted to eventually become acquired by a Search-engine startup, I really don't see that happening with the Homepage method.
All the best .. Mark/Alex
would love an invite : redrory ( at) gmail (dot) com :)
After seeing the eZ Website Creator, I was quite impressed and that seems a lot better than the Homepage theory. What was the problem with that?
You mentioned that you wanted to eventually become acquired by a Search-engine startup, I really don't see that happening with the Homepage method.
All the best .. Mark/Alex
would love an invite : redrory ( at) gmail (dot) com :)
An idea for where you might want to take this would be to turn it into a service for other sites to use. A social networking site webmaster would use your service to offer their users the ability to drag n drop functionality on their page. You would make it easy for the webmaster to create "widgets" that can be added/removed. Basically iGoogle for any site that wants it but doesn't want to get involved in the hairy mess of making a solid and reliable drag n drop interface.
From the blog ...
"In the end we decided to forego the customizable webpage market and focus on customizable homepages."
From clutterme.com ...
"We let you make websites."
Which one is it?
"In the end we decided to forego the customizable webpage market and focus on customizable homepages."
From clutterme.com ...
"We let you make websites."
Which one is it?
Good call, we still have to update the main site with some changes. You've nailed us though, because we did the marketing change on Sunday, and the online version hasn't caught up with localhost.
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The new focus on home pages doesn't sound like a very good idea either. Google and Yahoo have been doing that for years (not to mention Netvibes, Pageflakes, etc), and your improvement on that is to let people position and resize images and videos? Good luck with that.
How about a different approach? You've written all this code that lets people easily lay things out on a web page. Hm... that sounds kind of like a desktop publishing application. What do people use those for? Flyers, invitations, newsletters, etc. And all of these things are notoriously annoying to send via email. If you crank out some templates and hype up your product as an easy way for people to make and send flyers (with videos embedded!), then you'd at least start out with a few users.
But home pages? It's been done. Many, many times.