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In the google plus demo thing, by default, you could autofill the ID with someone famous like Robert Scoble .. For people like me who are not active on G+ (thats pretty much everyone)

Do you think that's an ok thing to do? I mean wouldn't Scoble have a right to be annoyed that I'm using his posts :)

Certainly be adding some examples though, but here's mine for now http://qiip.me/edlea

Silly me, I took me a few minutes to understand the concept.

In a user perspective, "Try Now" or the "See Demo" is the first button I press before reading anything.

I think you need to tweak a little bit of that workflow. Otherwise, great app!

Actually, I'm finding it a bit hard to get the concept across quickly. That's why I added the try now functionality. Do you think a video is worthwhile?

I'm no UI designer but asking the user to scramble for his G+ ID just for a demo is probably not the best thing to do.

On the homepage, you could have a conveyor belt like imagery where twitter, facebook and G+ icons come out as a "qiip". Below that you could have buttons like "See example" and "Signup" etc etc.

Your g+ and example site made it immediately clear to me. Maybe make that more prominent?

Cool project, by the way.

You could use Guy Kawasaki's G+ page.

Shoot him an email and ask. Probably he's gonna love it.

You definitely should ask for permission, but Scoble would be a great example, as he actually "blogs" on G+. Many of his posts are quite long and seem like a good fit for this concept.

really like the idea, good job! would probably come quite useful for a number of my friends. Home page is a bit confusing and empty though, takes a second to realize what it is. Also the preview of the list view (the first thing I've seen after inputting my userid) is a bit narrow, embedded youtube videos seem to jump out of the div but I guess it's not a massive problem ;)

Thanks for the feedback. Mentioned in the comments is having a couple of example users to try and get the concept across quicker.

I'm also opening up the site designs for anyone to make ( http://qiip.me/create ) as there are much better designers out there than me :) Do like a ThemeForest marketplace.

Awesome work! It did take five mins to understand what the service was. But wonderful piece of thought! :) +1

Unrelated, but which font are you using for the tagline "Beautifully Simple Websites" ?

It's "Bree Serif", available for free from here http://www.type-together.com/index.php?action=portal/viewCon...

Couple that with the ability to buy my own domain right away and you 've got a business

it's on the road map, but I'm not sure whether to add more services first or get domain names working...

I'd bump domain names up the list – it's one of the first things I look for in most services I want to put my time, effort and money into.

Nice! I've registered and kinda like it.

Integrate with facebook would be hard?

Thanks! Maybe Facebook pages might be better suited. It's on the list of services to hook up with though.

I've done a this with helipad.me - instant websites for businesses with Facebook Pages. It has its own complications but the Graph API is quite good.

We should talk, Ed :) - joe [at] helipad.me

ok, sounds good. Will drop you an email.

There was an article recently about how all the low end development/design will be done without developers/designers and only high end will need people. Tools like this seem to be propagating that idea.

I created a similar open source project that lets you host a blog powered by your Google+ profile: https://github.com/lylepratt/Plusify

Sorry folks... Rackspace server re-size in progress :( brb

gorgeous work, great job!

wow, thanks! makes a difference to hear it.

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