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Hello my friends,
As promised, today we are soft launching My Own Page for the community.
I genuinely believe this simple tool can be incredibly useful — powerful even — when it comes to bringing more users into Hive, and more importantly, giving them real utility.
Allow me a few minutes to make my point.
There are a lot of people out there who could benefit from a simple online presence. Small business owners, freelancers, artists… or even just someone who wants a clean, easy-to-remember place to showcase what they do.
And right now, the default answer is always the same: pay for hosting, buy a domain, deal with yearly fees.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
You can tell your friend, your aunt, your cousin:
>“Hey — if you have a Hive account, you can power it up a bit and have your own website. No yearly fees. No domain headaches. Just something simple that works.”
The resulting URL is short, clean, and easy to remember. It even fits perfectly in something like a Twitter bio.
And I’m not exaggerating when I say this — you can have a website up in under 60 seconds.
Let’s say @kesolink wants to put his CV online. He logs into My Own Page, picks the CV template, fills it out, and he’s done in minutes.
Now he has:
https://kesolink.snapie.io
And just like that — he has a website.
Feedback is Welcome
This is just the beginning.
I’m sure plenty of ideas will come up, and I want to hear them. If you can think of improvements or features you’d like to see, don’t hesitate to leave a comment.
Much love,
- MenO
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I can't tell you how much I love this ! Having something where people can create a website without paying a monthly subscription sounds like an amazing tool to bring people into the Hive ecosystem. Not everyone has to be a content creator ! I'd love to see restaurants in particular use this, I get so fed up with the ones that insist on doing it all on Facebook because it's free and then having menus that are just blurry photos that are hard to read !
A question I do have is on the financial model, because I'd hope that it's set up to help grow Hive's overall value through increased adoption and market cap (and maybe even pay you a little something so you can repair the flood damage !)
Will offering a free level and then an option to delegate to remove the banner going to cover the costs of serving the website ?
Although I generally hate "salami slice" pricing, I can see the benefits of developing a series of chargeable upgrades over time.
These could include;
* Custom domains - being able to apply your own domain name to the website (with a follow-up of what happens if the domain lapses ?)
* SSL Certificates
* Custom forms, possibly using some kind of anti-spam mechanism (not Captcha, necessarily, I'd rather see something in-house that doesn't serve big business needs).
* The ability to take payments within the site, possibly partnering with Keychain so that payments can be made with fiat and various cryptos but all delivered to the website owner in HBD or HIVE (a nice way to get funds into the ecosystem !)
* In the VERY long term, I'd love to see it developed as a CMS for e-commerce. But that would be a massive project in it's own right, and would definitely have to be chargeable because there would be a huge amount of work as well as ongoing support and development requirements.
Really cool, and perfectly timed as I've just cancelled my previous website plan as I was fed up with paying so much.
I've started having a play, and it feels a little awkward at first, but I suspect that's mostly me still learning how all the separate modules work, and understanding all the options I can change!
currently have a home page https://dannewton.snapie.io/
and a project page https://dannewton.snapie.io/site/dannewton/pages/insect-portraits
and then a page on my running stats https://myownpage.snapie.io/site/dannewton/pages/running
They are all a work of progrees for now, but I'm really impressed with how quick it was to get an 'online presence' up and running, and how quick it is to correct and update it... I just need to spend a few weeks on it to get it looking how I want :-)
