Nice work - seems like more and more people are using Notion to publish their own little websites. There are a few custom solutions that attempt to fix the problems that the author outlined, such as custom URLs and styling:<p>- <a href="https://super.so/" rel="nofollow">https://super.so/</a><p>- <a href="https://fruitionsite.com/" rel="nofollow">https://fruitionsite.com/</a><p>- <a href="https://www.notion.so/Hosting-Potion-Fast-custom-domains-for-Notion-without-code-adeaa466687a4459983783f950ca8310" rel="nofollow">https://www.notion.so/Hosting-Potion-Fast-custom-domains-for...</a><p>I also built my own solution which takes a different approach: <a href="https://github.com/leoncvlt/loconotion" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/leoncvlt/loconotion</a> - it caches the Notion page as a static site - admittedly you lose the capability of "syncing" sites instantly but is also makes the site snappier and more responsive as it removes a lot of bloat.
In addition to the already highlighted security vulnerabilities (you have to stop any js injection capabilities), instant publish from your domain means you are about to be swarmed with spammers. From SEO back-link builders, to “download links” for viruses or illegal content, etc. If you enable that kind of spam, your domain’s signal to noise ratio goes down substantially for sharing legitimate content.
Author here — me and a friend have been working on Brick for the past several months.<p>It works like Notion as in "all your edits are instantly visible" — from experience, this feels very different from blogging on Wordpress or making a static site in a git repo.<p>I love static sites but I'm not going back to them. I can experiment much more easily with Brick.<p>You can do something similar with Notion, but Notion is aimed at management or personal knowledge-bases, and it shows. We have a different focus. E.g. Notion is unlikely to ever have email subscriptions or ways to let people pay for your writing, while we very well might in the future. Notion also doesn't support custom domains out of the box, or custom CSS.<p>Try it out! Brick is free and has no ads. The only thing is that you need a premium plan (less than $2/mo) for custom domains.
I can't seem to read anything at all about pricing without signing up. I don't want to share my Google/Github account with you before seeing pricing information.<p>The "see Brick in action" video also doesn't play for me on Firefox.
I can add a script tag via the CSS. I suppose it's not much of a security risk. Might be wrong though: <a href="https://brick.do/c9878660-42ed-4b95-93b6-10a761488b5a" rel="nofollow">https://brick.do/c9878660-42ed-4b95-93b6-10a761488b5a</a>
Can we stop the requirement to use Gmail or Github just so I can use your service?<p>I want to signup for this service, but I can’t - because I use a non-gmail email service and use a non-github Git service.<p>What happened to thr “good old days” of just using my email address to signup for a service?
I expected "free" to mean free software. It means freemium here.<p>EDIT: NOTE: I mean nothing negative by freemium: I just mean there are both free and paid tiers. Not sure what the definition of freemium is.
For some reason, the 'See brick in action' video won't play (Chromium, Android 10). Do you have another link to the video that might work?
The website doesn't work here, which is pretty unusual. win 10 with latest version of firefox. first time it wouldn't completely load (kept loading...), CTRL+R and it loads completely, but video won't play. I'm curious and will be back in a few days to check it out.
Nice site. With all the "focus" on micro-blogging and dislike for sites like Medium.com (I agree by the way). It might be a good show of faith, to let the users "export" their sites to MD or static HTML, if they want to host and have a copy of their website.
Not sure if it's just me, but playing the 'See Brick in action' video in Firefox results in some strange behaviour: <a href="https://imgur.com/y0zJ0gB" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/y0zJ0gB</a>
I still want to see some example pages that are done in Brick. Also want to see the pricing details before I sign up. Currently "Sign In" is the only option available there.
neongreen, you should really test how it works on Firefox. For example sing in with Github bricked (pun intended ;) ) my tab with your site, even refresh button and address bar stopped working. I had to close it and open again to see the dashboard.<p>Steps:<p>- click on "get started"<p>- I choose option to sing in with google.<p>- it opens google api in separate modal window and this does not work if you have Firefox extension to keep google in container<p>- so I clicked github option, and authorized your app<p>- after that, brick.do page has been frozen completely
lots of questions / comments:<p>- how do I publish? how do I see the published version?<p>- what does the eye at the top right do?<p>- Is all you can do right now just create pages and subpages of rich media?<p>Otherwise it's actually not a bad experience. Lots of bugs. not sure if I'll stick around or publish an article on it yet, hard to tell right now.