jamalone

Hey thanks for the question! The issue wasn't that it was impossible to capture the information securely, it was that there was a decent amount of user friction to do so. I envisioned forms to be the simplest way to capture structured data and built security around it.

By contrast, NextCloud's drop would entail emailing the user a set of attributes, asking them to create a document locally, then uploading. Adding to that not every business would know how to, or want to go through the process of setting up their own web server for this use case.

My thinking is that this private forms approach would be a better default compared to email or text, which is how many businesses are handling this data today.

While working on my company I was having to reach out to contractors and content creators for their SSN, address, and bank info. Since none of them used Signal or PGP email, and we weren't comfortable adding a form into our existing product to store sensitive data, there was always some back and forth on trying to get that data avoiding email or text.

I was surprised that I couldn't find a solution to this in the wild, so I put VaultForm together to solve that problem for me. Then took it a little further to make it client-side encrypted so the server can't know anything important. This way anyone filling out a form can be assured their private information is safely transmitted, can't be viewed or leaked by the service, and don't need to sign up for a new service to do so.

Is there a specific reason why you have your link structured that way? I'm surprised to see that many tags as subfolders to the content, not sure I've come across that structure before. Just curious!

Right?! Unbounded and Darker Grotesque, both are open source from Google fonts(fonts.google.com). My co-founder picked it because he said the negative space in the C looked like the spoons he uses every morning to eat his cereal ha.

Thanks! Great question, and I should have been more clear in my terminology. We're more like a site builder + hosting provider than a general platform. The difference is between us hosting them directly i.e. Squarespace, and their presence on a platform where they are in a larger pool of creators and their branding is secondary i.e. Patreon/YouTube.

The key is that even on our lowest tier there is no cross site discovery, the only presence of our branding is in the footer, and their membership list is exportable at any time. As a result the creators feel and communicate that this is entirely "their" site, if that makes sense.

https://trycereal.com - Membership platform for creators that want their own site.

We made Cereal to help content creators find more independence in running their own content business, by centralizing their content on their own site and offering subscription/monetization.

It's been great, creators are able to monetize their customers without being on a 3rd party platform with ridiculous fees, or base their entire income on ads.

I'm working on a membership revenue platform specifically for video content creators.

Many content creators are forced to choose between the ups and downs of ad-based revenue on platforms like Youtube, or subscriber revenue on a subpar experience for storytelling like Patreon. We aim to solve for this specific market with Cereal.

Fans love it so far, and we're learning a lot along the way. Distribution & marketing in this space are areas we're looking to improve upon in the coming weeks.

https://trycereal.com

Thanks for checking it out, I'll take a look into this. Right now it's limited to "Recent Passages" but I plan to include genre and friend based filtering, and searching by title/author in the future.

As a fan of Ghost’s design and preferring static sites, I started using Jekyll with the theme Jasper2, which was based on Ghost’s default theme Casper. Super easy to set up and use if you’re comfortable with not having the ghost editor, and with github pages hosting and publishing was a breeze.

Yup that's where my network has been, so I started testing this with those I knew in professional services firms with referral incentives. Hoping to explore how this MVP takes with other industries/companies as well. Thoughts on what niches might be worth a shot?

Hey HN! Been working on this as a side project for a while and would love to get some feedback from the community.