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Wow, thanks so much for the support. I'm happy to answer any questions to help get started. Just let me know :)

Thanks so much for the kind words. Yeah, it's still a super early version and the goal is to improve with as much feedback as possible from the users.

Thanks. Let me know if you need anything to help you get started.

Value is super broad. Value as in a person values? Or value as sharing knowledge on the internet?

As Portuguese, I can tell you this was massive! I went one full day without a stable internet connection, without being able to make phone calls and with very limited mobile data.

This should make us think very hard about cybersecurity.

Thanks for sharing, it's great to see you grow!

On a side note, I found it super interesting that a lot of startups use Notion as a careers site. I believe a careers site is one of the most important pages of any company's online communication. Do you guys use it because is fast / convenient to update and add / delete content?

Thanks so much for the great feedback. Anything you need, just let me know.

Yes, absolutely. I've created a few templates to help people get started. Have a look here: https://makers.so/templates

John here, I’d love to show you Makers: a website builder inside Figma. Makers is a Figma Plugin to build and publish sites without ever leaving Figma. Here’s a demo [0].

As a front-end developer I constantly go from Figma to code / site, but it’s tedious… I decided to automate the process with this plugin. It works great for simple projects. I can see it working well for:

- Landing Pages

- Portfolio / Personal sites

- Resume sites

- Careers / Wiki sites

So, not a Webflow / Framer competitor (yet). If this seems interesting, you can install it here [1] and give it a try.

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For a bit of context, I'm a solo-founder and I started Makers after sharing my idea on the Figma subreddit [2] about how awesome it would be to have a button in Figma to publish my designs. A good amount of people seemed to agree, and that was enough to start working on it. This is turning out to be a super fun project, and I’ve been working full-time for the last two months.

[0] - https://twitter.com/joaodmj/status/1488216877511884805?s=20

[1] - https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/991438050654881175

[2] - https://www.reddit.com/r/FigmaDesign/comments/p65vnp/should_...

Makers is a Figma Plugin to help you build and publish websites directly in Figma. No code required.

For a bit of context, I'm a solo-founder and I started Makers after sharing my idea on FigmaDesign subreddit about how awesome it would be to have a button in Figma to publish my designs. A good amount of people seemed to agree, and that was enough to start working on it.

If you are interested, join our early access list at https://makers.so

Author here.

Despite all learnings, the cold reality is that this was a failed startup… but I’m trying it again. This time I’m doing things differently.

Hope you guys had a good read and learned a thing or two :) Let me know if you have any questions.

I guess it's just a number they through in... Hopefully they are voluntary subscribers. What does your gut tells you?

But that's exactly what it does... Did you try it? I'd love to get your feedback.

Exactly. I'm customizing my copy for the audiences. For HN, anyone know what Markdown is and could be interesting to see a page builder using Markdown along with other custom integrations (e.g. web components). For my target audience it seemed confusing to add that is Markdown. Makes sense? I can definitely reconsider.

Ok, that's a good point. In fact the whole Editor is Markdown based but in the Landing Page - which is basically a marketing site - I assumed it won't add much by saying is Markdown (bc most of our target audience wouldn't know what that is anyway). Here in HN anyone knows what Markdown is. Were you able to give it a shot?

It's there, if you hover Free. I have to make it more clear. Thanks for point that out.

Maker here. As a web developer and designer I'm always looking to simplify my messages with illustrations. According to Simon Thorpe et al [1], it takes people an average of 150ms for a picture to be processed and 100ms more to understand its meaning. This means we can convey our message much easier with some kind of visual system.

The process of finding and using these illustrations frustrates me. I'm never sure if I'm infringing copyrights or if I have to add confusing attributions to the artist or platform... I've found several interesting libraries but .svg format (where I can change the illustrations to fit my needs) is often paid.

So - as a designer I have a bunch of illustrations sitting on my hard drive - I decided to make ilustra [2] this weekend to give them away for free and help solve this problem.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/14567385_Speed_of_P...

[2] https://ilustra.io

The Welcome page is actually editable and publishable! I'll definitely make that clear.

The main difference for other platforms is the UI and UX. We want to make creating and publishing a website as easy as writing a blog post. Incumbent platforms could be quite daunting for the non technical or non design people - i.e. I don't have to know what is a DIV or BODY to create a website. Makes sense?

Founder here. Because of our first product (a "design to code" platform) [1], we've been talking to customers (mainly web agencies and small business owners) about what would be the easiest way to build and launch websites without writing code.

Why should you have to design first in a specific design tool? Why go from "design to code" in the first place? Many startups have questioned this and built great tools to help solve the problem (e.g. Webflow, Squarespace, Wix, Weebly, etc etc).

This seems like a solved problem, right?

Well, it turns out people want something simpler... like the tool they use everyday for virtually everything [2]. This was the moment we decided to focus 100% on a new tool: a Google Docs to build and launch websites.

To be honest the product is still in an early stage. There are basic features that aren't implemented (like version history, multi-page websites or collaboration). But I thought it could help someone publish their website faster. There's always that domain we bought for that project we never used... You could try it here [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20624140

[2] We interviewed 63 customers. By the way, I was amazed and completely surprised about this conclusion.

[3] Zecoda Demo: https://zecoda.com/

Got it. Makes sense!