Show HN: Barley - A web content editor for developers, now public.

by cdevroe • 13 years ago

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cdevroe4• 13 years ago

We think developers are going to love to use Barley for their customers when WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla are just too feature-rich for the job. We'd love to get the Hacker News audience feedback too.

sandieman• 13 years ago

Great work Colin! Love the simplicity.

p89522• 13 years ago

No source code, full of "analytics" trackers, only allows you to upload/edit themes via a proprietary 3rd party application, no revision control on blog posts, and the promo video is just some guy quickly clicking buttons on a MacBook while busy and brightly coloured backgrounds dance around.

Not to mention costs $18 per month, so I assume your content gets nuked when you stop paying.

No thanks, it looks like you're marketing to the wrong audience.

cdevroe4• 13 years ago

p8952: Barley is built ontop of Code Igniter and jQuery. We're thinking of open sourcing our Editor but our API is very, very simple. Also, syncing via GitHub will be coming soon. Revision control is something we've been thinking about with the Editorially team. They've got that down and we'd love to build that in.

A promo video is tough for such a thing. Something that is fun to watch and isn't a 30 minute screencast of me eating chips and drinking beer. Any suggestions?

We don't nuke any content. You can take it with you.

Thanks for the feedback even if you didn't care for it. We really want to make something people like so perhaps if one day we can win you over we'll be doing something right!

p89522• 13 years ago

I think you're trying too hard to jump onto the "ProductX FOR HACKERS!" (Or Developers) market. Such people simple are not interested in paying $18 a month for a blogging system when you could get multiple VPS for that price which can host not only your (Open source and truly hackable) blogging engine but also every other project you have.

If you were selling this to another market it would probably look a lot better.

allanmacgregor• 13 years ago

cdveroe: A promo video is tough for such a thing. Something that is fun to watch and isn't a 30 minute screencast of me eating chips and drinking beer. Any suggestions?

No need for attitude, you asked for feedback. That being said:

- You call Barley an editor when in reality its just service, and expensive one at that. - Barley is marketed for developers, but in essence is a closed system that doesn't allow for modification or developers to add new functionality.

Honestly the product looks pretty good the design and available themes are decent and I understand why the concept behind barley can be useful for some people but I think you are targeting the wrong audience; developers like to tinker; barley doesn't seem to be designed to easily do that.

My advice, remarket it as a blogging platform for designers.

waylonrobert2• 13 years ago

I think $18 is too expensive for what it is. Most web content editors are at least available as a download, even if they are not free.

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