OutputSocket: Beautiful website for $300 within 7 days

http://outputsocket.com/

by mlakkadshaw • 13 years ago

8 19 13 years ago

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markhacker• 13 years ago

It looks like you're just using bootstrap templates, no?

rekcanyd• 13 years ago

Something about simply reselling twitter bootstrap examples doesn't sit right with me ...

http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/getting-started.html#exam...

jmduke• 13 years ago

Maybe I'm risking a middlebrow dismissal, but this makes me feel incredibly unhappy. I'm a happy capitalist and see no problem with monetizing Bootstrap, but I think the people who monetize Bootstrap should be the people who make Bootstrap. This seems like an unabashed attempt to milk the subset of people who a) want a website, b) think Bootstrap looks good enough to pay money for, and c) don't know Bootstrap is a thing. (Hint: b) is a lot smaller than you think.)

(Also, having multiple typos on a landing page just makes things worse. If you're going to embark on such a venture, at least do it with gusto. I mean, "hassel", really? And that flowchart?)

mlakkadshaw6• 13 years ago

Well, we are not selling twitter bootstrap, we are building full website by gathering content from the client and loading it in the template, we are also doing customisation in the existing template. We have also built themes for the Content Management System based on twitter bootstrap and foundation templates.

Also we have give due credit to Twitter Bootstrap and Zurb Foundation: check the footer. Thanks

foobarbazqux2• 13 years ago

I'm a happy capitalist and see no problem with monetizing Bootstrap, but I think the people who monetize Bootstrap should be the people who make Bootstrap.

It's open source.

ixtraz2• 13 years ago

Open Source doesn't mean free.

infogaufire• 13 years ago

When you say "nicely designed handmade website", what does handmade means here? What about other billion websites including bootstrap, were they machine made or something? Please clear the confusion. Thanks.

mlakkadshaw6• 13 years ago

There are online website builder where you have select the template and you have to fill in the content and the software generate the website for you, so in-order to avoid confusion we used the word hand-made. I guess it is still confusing..

shimms2• 13 years ago

I don't like to be overly negative off the cuff, and hope I've just missed the secret sauce here (perhaps the messaging isn't clear on the landing page?), but:

Why pay $300 and wait 7 days when something like Themeforest charges < $50 in most cases, get it immediately, and is far more unique than a stock Bootstrap template?

mlakkadshaw6• 13 years ago

Themeforest just give you the template and you have to modify it according to your needs and fill it with content. We are not selling templates, the templates are open source (Twitter Bootstrap and Foundation-Zurb) we are offering the service to build your website around that template and modify it to suit your need. Also if you choose the Advance plan we will create theme for the CMS.

shimms2• 13 years ago

I see - I was probably looking at it from my own perspective, which is not your target audience.

I'm not sure the reception you're going to get on HN is reflective of your customer demographic. I think most people here can and would just run up their own pretty easily.

I guess your audience (I just noticed you include hosting) are those without the technical ability to do this work themselves, as opposed to those who could, but don't have the time or other resources to do so.

All the best with it :)

unmole• 13 years ago

I love seeing stuff like this. If mediocrity and minimal effort can pay off, just imagine what genuine hard work and commitment can do.

roybarberuk• 13 years ago

I think what everyone here really wants to say is "What a shower of shit!"

Firstly marketing your services and a website like this is bound to get you some flack.

7 days to make a bootstrap themed website? Come on! A bit of emmet in sublime and I could bash that out in minutes! Maybe you put 7 days to make it sound worth the cash?

Maybe if you flipped your service around offered to do HTML wireframes and had some sort of Ux experience it might work.

I'd be interested to hear what your target audience is?

P.s the landing page is terrible on mobile.

mlakkadshaw6• 13 years ago

Our target audience is professional and small business owner who don't have a lot of technical knowledge and/or time build a site on their own, our tragent audience is definitely not programmer/developer and the people who read hacker news ;)

Thanks

ixtraz2• 13 years ago

Is that a joke?

tux1968• 13 years ago

Site looks pretty bad without Javascript enabled. Suppose that's pretty common these days. Seems most web developers have given up on progressive enhancement.

OutputSocket: Beautiful website for $300 within 7 days

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