[adishasanic]

Sorry, but you cannot download a website. Veonid is just an app to create a public page which you can send to your friends, followers, clients, employers, collaborators, etc. as one introduction from which people can learn more about you and find all your profiles and websites.

If it was possible, what would you do with a downloaded website and where would you take it?

[humanistbot]

> Sorry, but you cannot download a website.

https://imgflip.com/i/74yfm5

> If it was possible, what would you do with a downloaded website and where would you take it?

If I'm going to use a service like this, I'd like to have a backup of the static site from day 1, so that when (not if) the person behind this eventually gets bored, retires, dies, goes bankrupt, loses their keys, or just decides it isn't worth the money or mental energy to keep hosting it for free, I'd like to be able to re-upload the static files to something like GitHub pages.

[adishasanic]

Thank you for your feedback — definitely valid concerns with writing or uploading anything into a web app created by 1 person. I will definitely consider what's the best way to keep user data always in user's hands. Some things I can say which may provide some relief:

- I intend to keep Veonid a platform to publish and present things from, not to write and keep things in. I encourage using tools like Notion or UpNote to do all your thinking and writing, and only paste into Veonid what you intend to have public in nicely designed pages/presentations.

- Hosting Veonid does not cost and will not cost anything for the first 5,000 monthly active users, and after that it's only $25/mo. for Clerk.

- I intend to keep Veonid profiles text-only, so data storage is minimum and thus fast and low cost for a while.

- Thanks to NextJS, Vercel and Hasura, updating and maintaining Veonid is really easy.

- If it comes to shutting down the app, I'll notify all users at least 1 month in advance, via email and via app, so there will be enough time to save data.

- In 4 hours since I posted Veonid on Hackernews, 60 new users registered of which 56 created a profile, which is encouraging for a v1 and finding product-market fit.

- I have more than 10 years of experience designing UI/UX of web and mobile apps, and I have launched web apps before, which is no guarantee of what will happen with Veonid, but may be of passion and familarity with the challenges and obstacles of designing and building products.