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Ahoyo – Build a single-page online presence

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Wow! So much negativity about this website - I don’t think its deserved. They are trying to build a business, and are not doing anything nefarious, so no need to hate.

Maybe they fail, maybe they succeed.

I personally build my website on html / css / github pages, but there are many others who want a different solution, whether it be wordpress or ahoyo.

These 1-page example pages are pretty heavy: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

17 on Page Speed Insights. Lots of background scripts or something?

And using PNG as their image format and not doing any kind of text compression. That’s the most basic thing in serving websites and they are not doing it.

what image format should they be using?

https://www.keycdn.com/support/png-to-webp

WebP could be a good option.

If there is no way to test a site without entering an email I close the tab and you should too.

Is this the same thing as about.me?

I signed up for that 10? years ago when I saw it on hacker news [1]. And that was apparently just a clone of flavors.me

Are these just sites that ask you to enter a ton of personal data so they can sell it?

Or are people benefiting from this? More than a LinkedIn or Twitter or Instagram or wix or Google site or free hosted WordPress or medium?

I had an idea for a site sellmyinfo.com where you enter your info and I'd split the profits of selling it with you. Maybe that idea has wings?

[1] I must have seen an article 4 days before this, but "about.me" is hard to Google for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2025764

Hosting a site like this doesn't cost much, their business model is probably to add additional paid features as they go.

It's nothing new, but I also don't think it's nefarious.

Oh come on. It takes 30s to read trough their website and feature list to see that no, this has absolutely nothing to do with about.me. It’s mostly for business.

Well, nobody uses these sites but they try to get a larger user base, probably in the hope of later monetization. You can't blame them for that, maybe one of them someday becomes popular.

If you are being serious, how about you start that sell my info site? In the process you'd get insights into the flow of money and information among the companies in that industry and then share that with us as well.

No custom domains support?

Seriously. I can't imagine a business entity that needs a high-conversion landing page, but can tolerate not owning a domain for it. If my therapist's page (from their examples) was ahoyo.to/amazing-therapy, I'd probably start looking for a new one.

I agree. And for many of these use-cases a "Facebook" page for the business would be fine. I know how we all love to hate facebook here, but for many small businesses--like the guy who fixes our neon signs--the Facebook brand page works great.

It works for Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, the only difference is a few billion users.

tis but a scratch

> I'd probably start looking for a new one.

You might, but I think most people would not (for example: me, I don't care one bit). Most people wouldn't even notice the domain, and most people wouldn't know what to do with this information ("the URL is ahoyo.to/amazing-therapy and not amazing-therapy.com? OK, what does that mean?").

Correct or not, I would bet most people have the noisy association that different domains means different entities as far as credibility works.

In other words, mimicking the look of a bank is probably good enough to make money, but not enough to make most people believe without the domain.

"Instead of building your own domain's reputation, enjoy the SEO tailwind of our amazing community."

I wonder what that means. I see that "my" pages have outbound links to Ahoyo general use pages. But is there some way any of that "link juice" comes back to my Ahoyo page?

The no personal domain is antithetical to the stated purpose of building your own brand. And given that this is a new site, with no Twitter presence and no already well known person behind it (that I could find), it’s silly to say you’ll get anything out of the “SEO tailwind” they allegedly already have.

My website is a single page, HTML only (no trackers or cookies), very little CSS and JS. "responsive" without any media queries and only a few images.

It's completely free to host on Netlify.

I don't market it heavily and I don't know how much traffic it gets - and I don't care. I completely own it and it does its job.

Why would I pass this off to some company?

Because you don’t know HTML, CSS, And you want SEO and analytics.

I’d guess the target is not the usual HN demographic.

You have a spelling mistake in “consultation”.

That's great but why is that relevant? can non technical people reach feature parity with what Ohayo is offering using your approach without wasting time (money) on learning how to cobble a site together?

Are those people on HN?

Yes

It's not the hosting that is sold. I think I would pay for the design, can't be bothered with selecting pictures aligning text "just so". This is get from zero to something, in 3 minutes, you can't do that with Netlify.

"Forever free"... Means for 3 years until the VC funding runs out and then you lose all your stuff...

"Yo ahoyo" would be "I drown" in Spanish. That's not a showstopper, but it does make me curious about the story behind the choice of the Ahoyo name.

Given the nautical theme, I think it's just a play on "ahoy".

You're thinking of "ahogo". "Ahoyo" doesn't have a meaning but "hoyo" does and it means hole.

Ahoyo does have a meaning. It's a conjugation of the (not commonly used) verb ahoyar https://dle.rae.es/ahoyar

So it means 'I dig a hole'?

Not exactly. The direct translation for "I dig a hole" is "Yo cavo un hoyo" which maps all words one to one. A more general translation "yo hago un hoyo" (verb. to make), removes the need for the hole to be dug and can be used for holes you cut or rip as well. There are very few cases where you are not better served by the verbs to dig or to make, and I don't think I've ever heard anyone use ahoyar before.

It means "I dig the hole(s)"

Example: Yo ahoyo, tu plantas -> I dig the hole(s), you plant [the tree(s)]

I got a 500 after the user creation page.

Same for me

Pretty cool! Definitely think there's a market to go even easier than Webflow.

Maybe don't include my location without asking?

Shameless plug: If you want something similar for your Spotify profile, you can try https://volt.fm

The site is down

How do I delete my account?

That was a good question, and if I actually use this for a year, and then need to create another kind webpresence.

Ahoyo = Yahoo ?

hug of death?

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