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Comment by quest88 | Hacker News Reader

I'd like to talk about today's sponsor, Squarespace.

(in Jest, I know it doesn't solve every problem!)

I used to look down on it but when I heard it handles payment it blew my mind and I decided I'd rather use it myself if I ever make a shop instead of building it myself. To quote a random guy "I trust their code more than what I wrote at 2am."

I am a SWE. When I needed a website for a small business I was running, I used squarespace too. If you just need a static public facing site it's absolutely great.

Same here. I used to scoff at their prices “I could do that for way cheaper”, and I could/can… if my time is worthless which it’s not.

Now for things that aren’t my core business (day job or side project) I’m much more likely to reach for a paid off-the-shelf solution.

After months of putting off building a marketing website for my side project I just paid for a tool to build/host it so all I had to do was plug in my info. Yes I could have hosted it for pennies on S3 with CloudFront in front of it but instead I setup a cname, paid like $20 for the year, and let this other company handle the responsive design (template) for me.

For some weird reason, "Squarespace" keeps reminding me of a location-based social network from the early 2000's. Did I imagine that? Or did the domain and trademark get bought?

You might be thinking of “Foursquare” :)

Thank you! That's the one.

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