Something I've noticed in both website builders and theme buying is that it is very hard to separate the incredible stock photography from the overall style of the site.
The common experience seems to be picking what you think is the "perfect" theme only to find that it's really dependent upon having thousands of dollars of high-end photos taken.
I used to work on Squarespace's templates team, and this is a very real problem we talked about with some frequency.
There's a few solutions, one of which is designing more around text, but in many instances people still want the media-heavy look. For those cases, the image tool tied in with Unsplash, which made getting high quality stock images pretty easy.
Squarespace was leaning heavily on 'AI generated websites' only a few years ago. Just add content (text, images and such) and Squarespace's AI magic would turn it into a wonderful website. I just now had a look at their website and it does not have any reference to AI at all.
Very surprising. Or maybe understandable: I am not sure if 'AI generated' is a thing to a non-IT person. It sounds complicated. Maybe that is what Squarespace learned.
I am very sure the two people that asked me for an advice in the past days would not care. 'Easy', 'cheap' and maybe 'drag-and-drop' might do it. 'E-commerce', 'onine shop' even more.
We are working in order to make our website builder the fastest and easiest way to go online.
In addition to easy to use drag and drop, e-commerce and other essential features we introduce AI tools in order to help our users to launch their websites even faster.
More people taking up website building and creation, it is nice to see that it can be done easily with a service like this. I think it adds to the accessibility, not everyone understands the tricky part of building a website and most want to do it fast, so o I think this feature is pretty cool
Hi HN, Together with the team, we want to help our users bring their ideas to life, whether that’s by creating a website or an online store.
We have made Zyro website builder super easy to use and added some AI-features to help our users to generate text and understand their visitors better.
Make sure to let us know what you think below in the comments.
Can't help but think the AI-generated content is a little ambitious, with results like these, for reference I chose Music & Entertainment > Indie Music as the categories for generating content:
> Indie music is a great genre of music. Indie music is the best of indie music. Indie music is my music, my life, my music. Indie music is the world. Indie music is life. Indie music is indie music. Indie music is Indie music.
> The band formed in 2009 in the New York City music scene. The group has been featured on: MTV, NBC, BBC, CNN, PBS, The O’Reilly Factor, BBC Radio, MTV, NBC, BBC, MTV, and MTV2. The band has been the subject of performances at several shows such as: E3, E3 2013, E3 2014, E3 2015, and E3 2016. The band has been featured in: YouTube, YouTube Red, YouTube Music, MTV Music, and YouTube Vlogger.
At the moment, if you’re choosing by the category, you’ll always receive 5-7 results so that you can select the most fitting one. Also, AI is generating “on the spot” and doesn’t have pre-made templates that would be presented every time (what makes the generated text unique) - so if the generated text doesn’t meet your requirements, you can generate again and again to get new, different results.
Obviously, AI-generated text cannot replace a human writer. Its purpose is more of providing a guide than generating a ready to use the content. It helps to understand how to put everything together, what topics to use. The user only needs to edit the result, so it fits their needs.
As well, our team is working on training the AI writer tool to get better and more accurate results.
Where you would make a difference, at least in Europe, is an integrated multi-lingual (and multi-currency) feature. One where you can translate objects (h1, text, message) instead of creating a copy of some page. None of your competitors (which are many) get this right.
From the technical side impressive! But if a website plans on using AI to generate content does it really need to be there? Personally, I couldn't think of a situations where turbocharging my fluff generation would lead to a better website. Is this strictly for SEO?
AI Writer helps when you are writing a lot or longer texts.
As well - generated content is SEO friendly because words are collected when crawling the internet. Although, of course, a generated content won't always be perfect, so you may have to make some edits here and there, but it's more convenient than starting from scratch.
Sounds a lot like scraped/spun content if you ask me, and that's already a problem with many sites right now. That doesn't make for unique content, nor anything most people would want to read/find useful.
Understanding our users’ daily struggles and developing powerful solutions that fit everyone’s needs is really important to us. All the feedback from users is being collected and forwarded directly to the product team so we could understand and improve our services depending on our customers’ needs.
We believe that awesome team can make a powerful and extremely easy to use tools with the support from customers.
Man, your PR seems to suffer from corp speak and is something you would expect from a fortune 100 middle executive and not a recently launched startup. Dare to be human.
Congratulations on the launch. I am not really sure the world needs another website builder but your pricing looks attractive for small businesses outside the west.
Zyro is using high-availability AWS (Amazon Web Services) to store and serve website assets. We’re using a combination of multiple layers on top of that to achieve the best possible speed:
CDN to serve a website from location closest to website users’ - improving download speed
Caching at the edge, to make sure that static assets are not downloaded when not necessary
Serverless tasks for optimization of built website (such as image compression)
Cloudflare - to provide a set of optimizations and protect from attacks
Optimization techniques such as brotli/gzip compression, minimization of the code, etc.
For example “AI Writer” is built on GPT-2 transformer-based language model with 1.5 billion parameters, trained on a dataset of 8 million web pages. It is trained to predict the next word, given all of the previous words within some text. You can read more on it here: https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/
Another interesting feature is “AI Heatmap”. Basically, we took two different datasets to train our model: a dataset from an eye-tracking device and dataset gathered by using BubbleView methodology. More on BubbleView here: https://bubbleview.namwkim.org/
- Business name generator
- Slogan generator
- Logo maker
- AI heat map generator (given a mockup of website, analyzes where users potentially would look at)
- Content generator https://zyro.com/ai/content-generator
I can see logo maker and content generator proving to be very useful for 'mom and pop' websites; quite practical use of 'AI'.