Re:Show HN: A Handcrafted Web
by kateray on Thursday September 13, 2012 @03:52PM
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these are the ideas behind scroll kit and i'm glad you agree with them. but we'd be some pretty shitty hackers if we just talked about them and weren't trying to actually DO something to change things.
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Absolutely. We seek to solve the problems we see in the world through technology.
I feel your message would be more honest if you went for an approach like WordPress did: with an open-source tool. You make money by providing a hosting platform for the less technically inclined.
And think about it. Wordpress actually did revolutionize publishing.
What's wrong with making money by providing a service to someone happy to pay for it?
Nothing, but calling it a movement aimed to fix broken publishing when it's just another walled garden that will disappear at the first buyout offer is disingenuous.
To clarify a bit: I am annoyed not by what the product is, but by the way it's marketed.
The editor produces vanilla html/css that can be transfered and hosted anywhere.
And I'm glad that you think its worth buying but we're not for sale.
what do you mean by honest?
How does having a "Join" form make somebody a better "hacker"?