I have no idea what audience this thing is supposed to target. It seems like the idea would be for the less programming inclined but then it goes into all this technobabble that would only make sense to programmers? Who would probably know enough to host a site themselves anyway? I don’t even know what the product itself is supposed to be, or what kind of problem it’s supposed to solve.
I just… can’t make any sense out of this marketing.
i understand the audience to be those who either lurk or hover in small web/indie web spaces and haven’t yet contributed or started on certain projects due to skill. like those who have heard of self-hosting but don’t quite know how to do it.
it makes sense to me, looking at how many people join spaces like ours and learn all the culture but then either never participate or feel like they can do some things but not all.
Yeah, it seems a bit like Carrd, but with a little extra, and designed to be migrated if the owner ever gets their own server space, maybe? There’s a blog post that goes over it a little bit more:
i agree it’s not explained very well and is a bit difficult to parse. BUT it does seem like something that would appeal to a lot of people i think! it seems like carrd or linktree but with the capability to kind of tack on more of a substantial website if you feel like it? which is cool and useful i think. i’m intrigued by the “google-login of the alt-web” prospect, although admittedly i am not sure what that would look like or how it would work!
they mention notion and wikipedia which can both be edited by visitors, which is very exciting to me!!! communal site-building functionality like that is definitely a gap that i’d love to see filled, it used to be fairly easy for small communities to make their own wikis for free, but that’s not a thing any more