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Ahoyo – Build a single-page online presence

89 points| platformx | 5 years ago |ahoyo.to | reply

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[+] math-dev|5 years ago|reply
Wow! So much negativity about this website - I don’t think its deserved. They are trying to build a business, and are not doing anything nefarious, so no need to hate.

Maybe they fail, maybe they succeed.

I personally build my website on html / css / github pages, but there are many others who want a different solution, whether it be wordpress or ahoyo.

[+] noxer|5 years ago|reply
If there is no way to test a site without entering an email I close the tab and you should too.
[+] hdctambien|5 years ago|reply
Is this the same thing as about.me?

I signed up for that 10? years ago when I saw it on hacker news [1]. And that was apparently just a clone of flavors.me

Are these just sites that ask you to enter a ton of personal data so they can sell it?

Or are people benefiting from this? More than a LinkedIn or Twitter or Instagram or wix or Google site or free hosted WordPress or medium?

I had an idea for a site sellmyinfo.com where you enter your info and I'd split the profits of selling it with you. Maybe that idea has wings?

[1] I must have seen an article 4 days before this, but "about.me" is hard to Google for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2025764

[+] z77dj3kl|5 years ago|reply
Hosting a site like this doesn't cost much, their business model is probably to add additional paid features as they go.

It's nothing new, but I also don't think it's nefarious.

[+] solmanac|5 years ago|reply
If you are being serious, how about you start that sell my info site? In the process you'd get insights into the flow of money and information among the companies in that industry and then share that with us as well.
[+] 13415|5 years ago|reply
Well, nobody uses these sites but they try to get a larger user base, probably in the hope of later monetization. You can't blame them for that, maybe one of them someday becomes popular.
[+] jiofih|5 years ago|reply
Oh come on. It takes 30s to read trough their website and feature list to see that no, this has absolutely nothing to do with about.me. It’s mostly for business.
[+] Nextgrid|5 years ago|reply
No custom domains support?
[+] vngzs|5 years ago|reply
Seriously. I can't imagine a business entity that needs a high-conversion landing page, but can tolerate not owning a domain for it. If my therapist's page (from their examples) was ahoyo.to/amazing-therapy, I'd probably start looking for a new one.
[+] tyingq|5 years ago|reply
"Instead of building your own domain's reputation, enjoy the SEO tailwind of our amazing community."

I wonder what that means. I see that "my" pages have outbound links to Ahoyo general use pages. But is there some way any of that "link juice" comes back to my Ahoyo page?

[+] simonhamp|5 years ago|reply
My website is a single page, HTML only (no trackers or cookies), very little CSS and JS. "responsive" without any media queries and only a few images.

It's completely free to host on Netlify.

I don't market it heavily and I don't know how much traffic it gets - and I don't care. I completely own it and it does its job.

Why would I pass this off to some company?

[+] helsinkiandrew|5 years ago|reply
Because you don’t know HTML, CSS, And you want SEO and analytics.

I’d guess the target is not the usual HN demographic.

[+] have_faith|5 years ago|reply
That's great but why is that relevant? can non technical people reach feature parity with what Ohayo is offering using your approach without wasting time (money) on learning how to cobble a site together?
[+] emj|5 years ago|reply
It's not the hosting that is sold. I think I would pay for the design, can't be bothered with selecting pictures aligning text "just so". This is get from zero to something, in 3 minutes, you can't do that with Netlify.
[+] FL33TW00D|5 years ago|reply
You have a spelling mistake in “consultation”.
[+] londons_explore|5 years ago|reply
"Forever free"... Means for 3 years until the VC funding runs out and then you lose all your stuff...
[+] tyingq|5 years ago|reply
"Yo ahoyo" would be "I drown" in Spanish. That's not a showstopper, but it does make me curious about the story behind the choice of the Ahoyo name.
[+] qeternity|5 years ago|reply
Given the nautical theme, I think it's just a play on "ahoy".
[+] Teichopsia|5 years ago|reply
You're thinking of "ahogo". "Ahoyo" doesn't have a meaning but "hoyo" does and it means hole.
[+] nametagwork|5 years ago|reply
Pretty cool! Definitely think there's a market to go even easier than Webflow.
[+] Flex247A|5 years ago|reply
How do I delete my account?
[+] emj|5 years ago|reply
That was a good question, and if I actually use this for a year, and then need to create another kind webpresence.
[+] rq1|5 years ago|reply
Ahoyo = Yahoo ?