Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion

Re:Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion by aetherspawn on Thursday October 21, 2021 @05:13PM (#28950899)

I haven't been this excited about a website builder for a long time. I can definitely see myself switching from Squarespace to this!

Could you please clarify whether we can use something like AWS CloudFront or Cloudflare in front of this without issues?

Edit: Really need hierarchical nav menu's though. That's an immediate killer. I'll switch right now if you say that you can support submenus in the next month or so.

Edit 2: Another suggestion, can we have per-page injection? And split the content injection capabilities so we can inject in either the header or the footer? This would be useful, for example, if we want to inject less important scripts or styles at the bottom of the page so that we don't drop lighthouse ranking. This is a low priority feature request.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion by encoderer on Thursday October 21, 2021 @09:28PM (#28952817)

If anybody wants to know what it's like running a SaaS, here you have it. A wonderful comment, a perfect potential customer, a ton of work to make it work! The only good part is that once you do it once it works for other customers, too.

I mean this in just the warmest way to the author of the comment, it's just as a SaaS founder, what an emotional roller coaster it took me on.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion by aetherspawn on Thursday October 21, 2021 @10:04PM (#28953007)

I still intend to switch my site over. I think this is a great SaaS. I was literally looking for a Confluence <-> static site plug-in the other day, and they all suck or didn’t support SEO.

This product is awesome. And notion is better than Confluence as a CMS.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion by noahbragg on Friday October 22, 2021 @02:39AM (#28954296)

Sweet!You can always reach out in the live chat if you need anything.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion by skinnymuch on Thursday October 21, 2021 @09:46PM (#28952918)

For nav menu do you mean something customizable or breadcrumb “menu” following Notion’s/the url sort of thing?

What do submenus mean for this?

I’m using super.so right now and thinking of switching to this. It appears I’d have to do my own nav menu either way. Not completely sure how that would work. None of the showcase sites have much depth of pages if at all. Only the official site itself seems to have menus. Super provides breadcrumb horizontal “menu”. Not great either.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion by aetherspawn on Thursday October 21, 2021 @10:02PM (#28952994)

Something like the “hover to pop out” menus on the notion.so website.

There are navigation menus in potion.so at the moment (they’re great!), but they only support 1 level.

For any site bigger than a placeholder site there’s virtually never going to be only a single level menu.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion by bhanuteja_p on Thursday October 21, 2021 @10:24PM (#28953097)

Are you talking about Mega Menus, something like the ones you see on https://vidya.so ? This is also built on top of Notion, but using https://mdx.one behind the scenes instead of Potion.

Full disclosure: I am the founder of MDX.one

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion by skinnymuch on Sunday October 24, 2021 @10:46AM (#28978391)

Mdx seems great. Love how actively developed/updated blog too.

I might try switching.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion by aetherspawn on Friday October 22, 2021 @12:58AM (#28953878)

Something like this, yes.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion by noahbragg on Friday October 22, 2021 @02:38AM (#28954292)

Hey! I'm glad your excited. And glad your trying it out. Edit 1 is probably not something I will get to in the next couple of months. Sorry about that! Edit 2 is on the roadmap. I agree, this would definitely be useful.

[ Parent | on HN ]