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by Brajeshwar 1284 days ago
Here is a workflow I believe will be one of the best website creators.

1. What do you want to call your website?

2. Here are the templates -- pick one.

3. Magic -- Do you want to view it -- yes. It is at https://myname.startup.com

4. Do you want to have your own name like "www.awesomeperson.com" (already registrar checked) and filled but with option to check other.

5. That would be ($9.99 for the domain) + ($99.99 we take care of everything) = $109.98 for the whole year. (With the optional to stay with just the sub-domain).

6. P.S. Do you want a local backup copy sync to your Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft? Hey, it is just $0.99 a month (free for the first year).

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Interesting flow, but I disagree — I think there are too many steps until user gets some reward from it.

I think a website is essentially a way to share content and communicate, so the first step, after signing up, should be to write content and immediately see it live at some subdomain. Everything after that is just editing/customization. So it'd be as it is in Veonid:

1. Read a landing page and click "Sign up"

2. Enter email address and sign up via magic link (no need to worry about providing password which you maybe use somewhere else)

2. "You've signed up!" (already some reward and feedback about what happened)

3. Click "Create a website" button

4. Write content and click "Publish" when ready

5. Done! Your website is live at a domain: startup.com/123456789 (another reward)

6. (optional, complicated stuff) Change template? Setup custom domain? Edit content?