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You are basically just spamming your site on HN: 20 submissions in 9 months.

You're getting good feedback because it's an intelligent community, but IMO your behavior is objectionable.

I'm really truly sorry about this. But the previous submission was actually a different product but with the same name. However, I understand your point.

But honestly, there aren't that many free and effective avenues for a non-influential internet figure like myself to get exposure for a product I create. Product Hunt and Hacker News are the most helpful sites.

I tried to get the word out at many other places but many times, it just went unheard of. I can't afford those expensive paid launching sites and adverts. So, these free platforms are my only hope and I had to post a few more times than normal. This post that got this many upvotes and feedback, I never really thought it would turn out this way. I got really really lucky with this 20th post.

I'm really sorry for the spam but I'm just trying hard to make my voice heard, too. I hope I'm still within the rules of this community.

I strongly disagree with the commenters. 20times in 9 months is absolutely ok!

I am honestly surprised someone would even take note of a single post in the barrage of posts that is the HN front page.

Just as example I login here EVERY DAY and yet this is the first time I discovered your app.

In the most respectful way possible, please please just ignore the thread OP, it is 100% unwarranted criticism IHMO.

Keep talking about your product, write blogs, take out ads, post it to your socials do just do your thing!

> 20times in 9 months is absolutely ok!

It's actually not okay and the HN system is designed to stop that behaviour. Looking at the submissions this appears subverted through various subdomains and TLDs, but its the same submission.

I'm okay with posting a few times, but 20 times? Come on..

Also, it will show up on the https://news.ycombinator.com/show for days, so if you miss it, it's because you're not checking there.

Hey there, I'm really sorry that you found this behavior to be wrong and I agree to a certain extent that what I did was wrong, too. However, the submissions I made were not of bad faith.

When I first started, I used a Japanese-inspired domain name but none of my western users can relate to it, so I changed it. At that time, the product was different than it is now, it was more of a startup community group to showcase their startups on a profile page rather than a landing page builder. That didn't work out. However, some users liked the profile pages I created for them on that website so I changed the domain name to oneprofile.info, a personal page builder (which is active and is used by over 2000 people).

After I launched on Product Hunt, some users requested profile pages for their side-projects and teams. So, I bought the oneprofile.team domain and used it for a while. Then, I realized restricting it to team doesn't make sense and thought of opting for a domain name that is much general. Finally, I ended up with the oneprofile.page domain name which is what it is today.

It was a long and arduous 9 months journey for me, a solo dev/entrepreneur. I don't have a strong voice on the internet so I had to do something like this where I keep posting stuff to get the word out and hope I get lucky and noticed. I really didn't mean to offend you or the community.

I appreciate the clarity of your answer, and how it isn't full of marketing-speak and deflections. Keep doing your thing to get your business going!

Thanks so much for the encouragement and support - it means a lot to me!

No worries. Congrats on launching

Thanks for wish - appreciate it!

> I'm okay with posting a few times, but 20 times? Come on..

over 9 months, 9! that's once every two weeks.

> so if you miss it

no one is looking for something they don't even know exists.

> no one is looking for something they don't even know exists.

I would be happy to direct your attention to the "Show" link on the top toolbar, where no one can miss it

I mean no one is looking for an article they don't know exists.

Thank you so much for your encouragement, understanding, and support, demarq! I feel a bit better now :)

Fair enough.

Accounts that only ever submit from one domain (presumably their own) and have no comments on any other threads (I don't know if you do or not; I'm speaking in the abstract here) are receiving a lot from the community and providing little.

The very same posting frequency is fine with me, if you're also sharing the thoughtful work of others that you find.

But the comments also show suggest that mine is the minority view, so.. carry on.

You're actually right, appleflaxen. I don't have any other comments on other threads and that was really my mistake. I should've been more contributing if I were to expect the same from others. I'll try to be more active! Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

The most successful companies I've worked for have been unapologetic in their extreme marketing campaigns.

That doesn't seem like a spammy submission rate, considering the slightly related but different contents.

And because HN is an intelligent community, this post was deemed interesting enough, with the right offering and content, and IMO his behavior is reasonable

Thank you, d0100 :)

First time I’m seeing this product.

20 posts in 9 months is not much at all.

Thank you :)

Congratulations on the launch, Yusuf (?).

A few points:

1. The pricing (8 months free + $2/month), even though it is very competitive, does make my brain calculate, "what if the 8 month free period didn't exist. What would be the total cost then?" And the conclusion it comes to, "a tad more expensive compared to other usual suspects". I don't think that was your intention and I don't know if others think so, too, but that was my first reaction to it.

2. Access to the page builders without having to sign up would be a plus. Ref, divjoy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20688044. Doing so might be difficult, so don't spend too much effort on it as I am not sure if it would actually help increase the sign-ups. It will make me try, though.

3. Please see if you can improve performance. A demo page you linked to from the website is absymally slow: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

First Contentful Paint: 5.2s

Speed Index: 6.2s

Time to Interactive: 13.1s

First Meaningful Paint:6.1s

First CPU Idle: 10.5s

Max Potential First Input Delay: 320ms

4. It is absolutely great you offer TLS and custom domains for free, but do you also offer a choice to turn off analytics?

I love the dark mode. The colours (with or without dark mode) are really pleasant.

Thanks so much for the kind words, suggestions, and feedback!

Yes, I'm Yusuf here, haha.

1. I believe the pricing is very flexible and competitive when compared to other usual suspects. Let's take Carrd.co as an example. Carrd doesn't offer monthly plans and a plan which offers custom domain costs $19 per year. What if you only need to use a page for 1 month? oneprofile.page with custom domain feature is available for $4 per month on the basic plan. Our yearly plans are 50% off and are far affordable compared to Carrd's. Carrd is great as it allows deeper customizability with CSS and JS. oneprofile.page is perfect for simple and quick use-cases.

2. Yes, you're right. I've been reading a couple of comments about it, too. I'll see what I can do about it!

3. Yes, I aware of it, too. I'm working hard to make it faster and will work on it gradually.

4. Is privacy your concern? Because the in-app analytics are not invasive at all. It simply counts visits and it doesn't detect any more than that e.g. gender, country, age etc. If you want deeper page insights with privacy friendly analytics, you can connect to Fathom or Plausible analytics.

Thank you so much for the nice comment on dark mode! Worked pretty hard to get it right. Still need some polishing though!

Hope you love the experience so far! And please share any other feedback that you have, I'm eager to listen and improve.

Very confusing page, it says "Get started for free" and when you sign up and want to publish it says "$2/month Billed at $24 per year • 8 months free!" - what does that even mean? 8 month free, then $2/month? How can it be free if I'm billed $24 upfront?

Right, please bear with me since I'm pretty new to setting up pricing plans. I've been learning through observations but am happy to listen to feedback. I'll try to clarify here:

It's free to get started and use the product in private for however long you want, only pay when you want to publish the pages live.

The pricing plans are relative to the monthly plans. For example, the Plus monthly plan costs $8 per month or $96 per year. Plus yearly plan is 50% off, so it costs $4 per month or $48 per year. $48 per year is equivalent to 6 months of what you will pay for if you opted for the Plus monthly plan hence it is 6 months free. The same logic applies to Beta Special 75% off.

Hope that clarifies! I figured I need to work on the wordings better—thanks for sharing your thoughts, really appreciate it.

If you are offering a service to create a landing page then you really need a top notch landing page yourself. Some improvements:

* Don't offer a call to action that directs straight to a signup page, it is very off-putting and you lose users there

* Put more content above the fold. There is too little useful content above the fold.

* The images are lovely but they are massive over 1MB for this one which could be less than 10kB at the rendered size in my browser https://cdn2.oneprofile.page/assets/3-b57554fe9a488e6cdc3c9a...

Ah, I see. You're right. Thank you so much for the detailed feedback and insights. I'll see what I can do to improve! Hope you gave it a try!

Also, there is one specific thing that I absolutely require, which is an option that puts large screenshots/video of the product (software) in action at the very top. I didn't see anything like that so it's a non-starter for me.

There's a feature called Profile Video where you can add a video from YouTube as your profile video instead of photo. Have a look at this demo page and see whether it fits your needs:

https://parkrun.oneprofile.page/

Hope it helps!

Wow, it's so tiny!

But it's expandable :)

Would i try it? Yes right up until i have to sign in.

I completely agree. So many business shoot themselves in the foot requiring to sign up to quickly. At least let me have a taste of what I'm signing up for. Quite often there's a complete mismatch between my needs and the vendor's offering, and I don't want to waste time.

I see. Thank you so much for your reasoning. I honestly never thought signing up was such a blocker. Personally, I sign up with google or use LastPass, and if I don't like it, I'll just delete the account after trying. But you're right, at least a quick demo of how it works will be pretty helpful. I'll see what I can do. Thanks again!

I really like you being open minded about it. Kudos for that. I see a lot that a lot of online retailers want you to create an account before you can browse. You can browse Amazon, the biggest online retailer, without an account. Something worth considering.

Thank you very much. Same goes for you, thank you for sharing your arguments and reasons, I learned a lot from reading others' comments. I can't promise immediate implementation because it'll take some time to do it but thank you for raising this up! I think I'll eventually do it sometime soon.

Thanks for considering!

I signed up, look around, tried, and created a page. I wish I was creating a site/website and then adding pages.

Unable to find my way quickly enough to claim/pay the 75% discount.

Here is my personal view;

The user experience on the site is too noisy with too many elements all over the page, and the constant reminders isn’t helping.

I would suggest to tone down the excitements happening on the pages.

I was under the impression that people create a landing page(s) of their websites/domains. Can we make it clear what they are creating? Will it not be -- site > page(s)?

Are you going to charge me depending on how many pages I create, or am I creating per site account and then charged for the number of pages in that site.

Not an endorsement, but I’m a lifetime premium account (I think via Sumo) of https://landingi.com (too many repetitive elements), and I’m a paying customer of https://carrd.co (best so far) for the past few years.

Cheers for trying it out! And thank you very much for the feedback and suggestions.

At the end of the onboarding page, there should be a button "Join Beta Program" which you can click. There's also a similar button on the navigation bar. When you clicked on the button, you'll be brought to a page where you can enroll yourself in the beta program. Once you completed a simple feedback form, the special pricing of 75% discount will be made available to you at that instant.

When you signed up for an account, you'll be able to create up to 100 pages/sites depending on your plan.

Our pricing model is very similar to carrd.co so, it should help.

Please do give us a try again :) Feel free to reach out again, I'll be happy to answer any questions.

Carrd looks very good on the surface - product and pricing. Will probably sign-up.

It definitely is! But I hope you'll give my product a try, too :)

Okay. I usually don't comment on this stuff, but this time I would actually enjoy a tool like that, because I'm currently struggling with building a landing page for one of my project, because I have no experience building websites.

The feature set looks alright, although it was a bit difficult to discover what the features actually are. If it is a website builder I would like to see a demo or at least screenshots of the actual building.

It was unclear to me that this includes hosting as well. I was hoping to get a tool where I can make a one-off payment to build a simple static landing page that I can put into my static FTP host that I already have.

Hi there, thanks for checking my tool out and thanks for the kind words!

You're right, I should've done a video of the actual building. Will try to prep a quick one soon. In the meantime, here are some demo pages which might help you out to imagine how yours will look like:

1. A product page demo: https://cssscan.oneprofile.page/

2. An about page demo: https://oneprofile.giftworks.io/

3. A community page demo: https://parkrun.oneprofile.page/

My previous product was a personal page builder and we got to no.1 on Product Hunt the other day (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/one-profile). This new product, a landing page builder, is a continuation of the many requests we got to build one.

Hope it helps!

Always suggest https://designmodo.com/startup/

It was used to build https://rezi.io

It took me just 5 days - super fast

That's great to hear, and your site looks dope.

Anyway, I hope my product https://oneprofile.page gives people more choices to choose from.

Your signup page does not show at all on an iPad. (I made a tool to find these kinds of errors, you can see the results here: https://app.pagewatch.dev/8c381890f2e599beec475be2a3ac19a030... )

Shoot. Thanks a million for the heads up!

Thing that stood out at a glance: The box for 'dark mode' is bright green. The box for 'more features' is dark grey. And the alternating text colour choices in the dark grey box can be hard to read.

Glad you've pierced the HN bubble and are getting some wide feedback.

Right! I'm not an expert in colors so your feedback is really valuable to me. So, thank you. I just had it in random colors, lol. Figured it needed some fixing. Cheers!

Looks nice! The pricing is a bit confusing: is basic plan free? How does that relate to the trial week?

Thank you! And I'm really sorry about the confusion.

Since I'm giving a 75% discount to beta users, the basic plan would've not cost anything. So, I made it not applicable to choose it if you enrolled in the beta program.

On a normal yearly plan, the basic plan costs $2 per month. If you enrolled in the Beta Program, the plus plan costs the same as the normal yearly basic plan at $2 per month.

Hope it clarifies :)

All I see is Bugsnap icon?

Does it integrate with other systems, like Wordpress? Instapage has a plungin for Wordpress that makes it really easy to use their landing pages within your website/blog. Does oneprofile have anything like that?

Hey there, thanks for asking! Unfortunately not. There's no such integration. Instapage costs $149-$199 monthly so naturally, they have many more resources and features that they can provide. One Profile tries to provide a nice, simple yet practical landing pages that are affordable for the masses.

Hm, i clicked the Get Started button but nothing shows up here: https://i.imgur.com/HSN8YEP.png

Ah, it might take a while to show up since there's a pretty picture of a 3-d lady mopping the signup page. Maybe give it some time to load. Thanks!

It didn't show up at all, but i figured out that if i resize my browser it appears. Not sure why.

It's that right!? Hmm, it must be the port view. It may be an error on my end—will check it out. Thanks for the heads up!

Congrats! I haven't tested it out as I would love to see a screenshot or video demo before giving away any personal information to know if does what I think it does.

Thanks! Yes definitely, there are 3 different demos on the home page but I'll just leave you some links here so it'll be easier:

A product page demo: https://cssscan.oneprofile.page/

An about page demo: https://oneprofile.giftworks.io/

A community page demo: https://parkrun.oneprofile.page/

Hope it helps! And thank you so much for checking out!

I've got the need for a cheap, 1 page, custom domain service. I looked at 1MB again but they are no longer free for a custom domain.

Any alternatives?

Hey there again. I actually have another similar product for a one-pager here, https://oneprofile.info

Hope it helps!

Thanks!

Gladly! You can try carrd.co, too. It's a pretty nice alternative!

I'm not sure I agree with the choice of the emoji used for the testimonials section.

First thoughts: Really love the design / theme!

Thank you so much! Glad you love it!

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