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Show HN: Magicdocs – Turn Documents into Websites

80 pointsby phemartinabout 5 years ago

9 comments

zschuesslerabout 5 years ago
Congrats on the launch, it&#x27;s obvious a lot of work went into this :-)<p>My initial reaction: cool idea, I&#x27;ve seen it done a couple times before, what does this offer that&#x27;s different? I wasn&#x27;t able to get that from the landing page so I watched the video.<p>Watching the video, I was excited because if I could make a good looking proposal without much effort, that&#x27;d be helpful. But from the video I got the idea that there isn&#x27;t much functionality and the output isn&#x27;t on par with my own quality expectations.<p>Here&#x27;s what I would&#x27;ve like to see:<p>1 - A few real live demos. I don&#x27;t like watching videos, and I don&#x27;t see examples in the live site. I just want to answer my first burning question of &quot;How cool is the output?&quot;<p>2- What other tools do we get in the editor? Some basic things like a table of contents would be mandatory. Something like a slider would be nice, but then you&#x27;re becoming a bit of a Wix clone if adding a bunch of html widgets.<p>3 - Why not make it free? You need feedback more than you need money at this point, IMO.<p>4 - The branding, the name, is solid.<p>Your killer feature will probably come from the feedback you get. If I had to guess, it&#x27;d be an integration and not something &#x27;sexy.&#x27; Agencies I work with already have systems they follow and a product owner wouldn&#x27;t swap to a service unless it either provided massive value, or was able to read PDFs or Google Doc files and make them look good on the web.
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screyeabout 5 years ago
Love the idea. It&#x27;s simple, does a specific thing and seems to do it well.<p>A couple of suggestions:<p>1. Maybe have the &#x27;DEMO&#x27; tab be more visible on the landing page. like a big &quot;try it out&quot; button would be nice. I had to loiter around for a minute or two to notice the demo button hidden away in the top. Also, maybe let people preview the demo before needing to signup or commit in any way.<p>2. Gifs on the landing page. It makes a huge difference. People don&#x27;t want to click on videos. But gifs auto-load which is great. (Legit speaking from experience and stats, we did user studies to confirm this...but it is to an extent, common knowledge in the UX world)<p>3. Think about finding a way to export PPTs to your editor. Most proposals get made in Powerpoint, so giving your user a convenient way to bring preexisting work into your environment is IMO, the fastest way to get new users. Especially the non-techy kind who have all the $monies$.
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pedalpeteabout 5 years ago
A few questions I&#x27;d like to see answered<p>1) who is the proposal for? What type of proposal is this ideal for?<p>My initial thinking was a client proposal like for a marketing agency, but then I figured they can probably need to WOW the customer more than this proposal doc would.<p>2) Why not just use SquareSpace, Wix, or other html page builder? What benefit do they have in using this?<p>Somebody else in a similar space is Qwilr.com, have you seen them?<p>I think you&#x27;re probably on to something, but I&#x27;m not completely getting it. Congrats on the launch!
mettamageabout 5 years ago
If he makes money with this, then it&#x27;s a prime example of how you can turn an idea that exists and make it better (Google Docs can do something like this as well).
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Meph504about 5 years ago
I&#x27;m confused, perhaps by the title more than the product, is there any functionality that actually converts documents into websites. Or is it just a web editor, to products simple web pages?
mmmuhdabout 5 years ago
This nice, and I like the fact that you covered everything in your terms of service including customer&#x27;s data confidentiality.
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pletschabout 5 years ago
I know the product is for non-tech people to be able to use this, still would be nice if you had functionality for custom CSS.
tleb_about 5 years ago
Why the 7 requests to stripe.com on every page? And why the spinning loader?<p>Is there an export to file functionality?
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the_arunabout 5 years ago
How is this different from Webflow?
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