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This is excellent. There has been a lack of tools to solve this exact problem - wanting to get a basic site up very quickly and cheaply.

Previously the best alternative was a free Firebase/Google account, and then setting up a HTML/CSS site, and deploying it.

This is much faster.

Thank you for building it!

And please, don't be dissuaded by the other commenters. Sure, the market is much smaller than the market that Squarespace et al are targeting, but you're solving your own problem, and there are at least a few others that share that same problem!

Problem this solves: People who want to quickly register a domain and get a text landing page up.

Side note: I wish Medium.com could set up a specific blog post as the home page for a publication with a custom domain

Or I wish I could get a custom domain for Quip.com notes

Thanks for the encouraging words. HN is a technical forum, so the critical responses are understandable. Not that I don't take them seriously :)

Sounds like you're looking for something similar to what i just released today. It's a service called Idnty and let's you create a simple and clean personal page in no time. No custom domains yet but it's in the pipeline. Please have a look, https://idnty.me

Really cool. I don't want to create an account just to try it out though, maybe letting users play around until they are satisfied would give a better sign up conversion rate? (Although the video itself is great).

Just a thought, not sure if good or viable. But maybe let users buy their designs for self-hosting would be an idea.

Thanks for some really good feedback! Your idea about signup after trying it out is spot on. I will probably implement that straight away. Self-hosting is interesting as well, never thought of that, but might be an alternative way to go.

Nice. Timeline on custom domains?

And yes, this looks good for me. I won't use it for a personal homepage, I'll use it for other sites, but seems easy to use it for non-personal homepage sites too.

Cool, thanks for positive feedback! Custom domains will hopefully make it before the end of the year. Will try to get there faster if possible.

wow that's awesome.

Thanks! Really like your project as well. We're kinda trying to solve the same problem, but with totally different approaches :)

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