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Some guides for different types of apps you can build:

- Reddit (https://getsproute.com/docs/reddit)

- Chat App (https://getsproute.com/docs/chatapp)

- Blog (https://getsproute.com/docs/blogapp)

- CMS (https://getsproute.com/docs/cmsapp)

- Image Sharing App (https://getsproute.com/docs/imageapp)

- Portfolio (https://getsproute.com/docs/portfolio)

- Notes (https://getsproute.com/docs/notes) [WIP]

In the signup you ask for 'email', but on dashboard login you ask for 'username'. It took me way too long (and had to watch your video) to determine these are the same thing. Please remedy. You will have happier people when they get started with your system. As it is, I've had to walk away for a bit, because if I start trying to test your system now, I'll be viewing it through a negative lens.

Yeah I can see that being confusing. Will change the label and add a little blurb with information where to get the details. Thanks!

Should change the name. http://sproutcore.com/

Yeah I basically made it ungoogleable

A FAQ and about page would be extremely useful here. What is it? What are it's limitations? Who are you building this for? What happens if sproute goes out of business?

I'm sure this can be gleaned from an in-depth read through the docs and API, but it would be useful to know this info at a glance of your site.

Great idea! Will add it. The video was an attempt at a good introduction but a FAQ makes sense to me.

The framework will be released as open-source very soon and I will eventually have an export feature so anyone can just export their site to a ZIP and host it on their own machine. That's the plan anyway.

There is a video? Where?

Getting Started page. Will put a more visible link in the home page. Thanks

    Free forever

How do they define 'forever'? Google Fiber defines 'forever' to be seven years.

I define forever as the lifetime of the app. Also I will be adding a feature to export sites for use on private servers

If you're talking about google fiber they said after seven years it'll be the fair market value for 5mb/s which they're hoping at the time will be $0.

I keep getting "Username and password mismatch" when I try to hit my space's dashboard. I've reset the password twice so I know I'm typing the right password. Any ideas? Looks like a cool app and I'd like to try it out.

Sorry about that. Can you send me your details to support@sproute.io? can you try creating a new space?

Email sent. Created a new space and it's functioning appropriately. Thanks!

Good to hear. I removed the old account and created a new premium one for you. Feel free to send any feedback!

I can't even complete the most basic reddit tutorial on the free account, when I try to create the seventh page (subreddit) it tells me I went over the limit. On the page is says the limit is 7 pages.

Ah my mistake. I forgot to check all the guides were completable within the page limit. Will increase the count to 10 or something. Were there any other issues with the guide? Thanks!

I'm sorry. I don't get this.

Yeah I'm having a hard to explaining it rather than showing it. Would you take a look at the getting started video and tell me what you think? https://getsproute.com/getting-started . Thanks!

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