Modalities of Web Site Builders

I don't have a direct problem with these micro function services and can see use for some of them. Something about having hundreds or thousands of these tiny one fuction of your website companies is off to me. In stead of write html, add javascript and connect to a mysql database. Its Fire up BOINGO, log into FASTNCOOL launch an interactive environment, sign up for PERSEVERECE to keep your data.

Its taking what used to be knowledge and hacking it into some mush of single service company word salad. Which could be completely different salad for someone doing the exact same thing. Its often debatable if it even is saving time/effort. May the gods help you if you have some weird issue that is not in the FAQ page of any of those hundreds of companies.

It makes me think of some old alchemy style thinking. Oh you have hot blood let me meditate to the gods and see what they think will cool you down. BOINGO is loading slow! Let me look through the list of 8000 micro SaaS and see which of their 'magic' will accelerate away my problem for $5.99 a month.

Unrelated but https://carrd.co is depressing. I didn't see a single person over 22yo in their hundreds of example templates. I guess grizzled old late 20 somethings and up can just start shopping for tombstones.

> People expect to write into a WYSIWYG editor like Word but do not expect to write into their website canvas. The existing website builders' modalities do not come naturally to them.

I don't understand what this is trying to say.

To "write into a WYSIWYG editor like Word" and "write into their website canvas" sound like the same thing. The structure of the sentence, though, suggests that not only are they not the same thing, but that they're in opposition. Again, I can't make sense of this.

This shows up in the context of a section about forms. It would make sense, I guess, if the sentence said that people want forms and don't want a "WYSIWYG editor" where you write "into the website canvas". (Whether that's true or not, however, is a different matter.) That's not what it says, though.

Interesting, I'm building a website builder myself and I've arrived at a similar conclusion to start with a multi-step form, at least to get users onboarded.

I feel there's great benefit with collecting [core] data upfront which affords you to do things like suggest a bio based on your title and name using GPT-3 to mitigate the blank page problem.

My webkit-based browser doesn't display headlines nor text formatting - see https://0x0.st/ofM4.png

This article would have benefited greatly from some screenshots.

Sounds good. Boilerplate should be generated automatically.