dylanbfox

You (the customer) owns the domain. If you cancel your subscription we give you the info to manage your domain going forward. There's some more info in the "do you offer refunds" q/a here: https://www.claimyourname.io/faq/

Nope! Customers don't have to do any setup. All of it is handled automatically. We use Namecheap's API to forward your root domain to www, and then point your www CNAME to a subdomain on claimyourname. That configuration tells the app which site to serve up.

I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this. One option is just have a bunch of links to example sites. So they're displayed full browser. Another is a gallery with screenshots, but they'll be a bit' small since I'd be putting them in a gallery. What would you rather see?

Hmm, I'll have to do some more cross browser testing. Thanks for taking a look and letting me know what browser you were on!

Thanks for the feedback! That's a good idea. Just to make it as clear as possible.

Thanks for the feedback! I've definitely got to highlight this more, I agree. A lot of my friends got really excited when I mentioned that feature to them.

Thanks for taking a look!

Sure! Your site is hosted by ClaimYourName, which is hosted on Heroku. The domain is purchased through Namecheap, and we use its API to configure the domain's zone file to point to your site hosted on ClaimYourName.

The $10.99/year charge is pretty much exactly the cost Namecheap charges us for the 1 year domain registration. We just pass this cost directly on to you. The $6.99/month is "our" charge for a subscription and hosting your site.

Been working on this project for a few weeks now. You can see an example of a site built with it here: http://www.dylanbfox.com. I wanted to get a personal site up, but didn't feel like building one or spending hours configuring themes on other DIY website builders. That's where the idea for this came from.

Would love feedback on what features I should focus on adding!

Thanks! I got a lot of great feedback yesterday that I'm incorporating, which is why I decided to pull the trigger and post to HN in the first place.

For now I'm going to keep developing it as much as I can. I don't have any commercial plans. I thought about open sourcing it, and it's something I'm seriously considering.

I do plan to host it for a while, but if for whatever reason I were to stop supporting it I would make this clear very far in advance. I should probably talk about this somewhere on the website. I'm sure other people have the same question.

If you or anyone else has any other feedback/suggestions, please send it my way! My email is on the "info" page of the site. Thanks again.

Hey thanks for the feedback! I go into more detail on the "info" page. Wasn't sure if I should include the entire description on the home page or not.

I'd love all the feedback I can get. That's exactly why I wanted to post it to HN today. I'll follow you on Twitter and DM you my email.

Exactly. Some early feedback from friends said they needed more ways to find entries other than timestamps. Was thinking either titles or tags, and went with titles for now. Maybe I should make it more clear that titles aren't encrypted.

It asks you for a new cipher key on every entry, correct. The encryption keys aren't stored.

You could use the same cipher key for each entry though, and keep it in some password vault somewhere (maybe even on BitJournal itself). And leave a hint to remind you where the cipher key is.

Author here. This was a weekend project I've been working on. It's very much in beta.

I'm using SJCL (https://crypto.stanford.edu/sjcl/) and CryptoJS (https://code.google.com/p/crypto-js/) for client-side encryption, and Python's Cryptography library (https://cryptography.io/en/latest/) for back-end encryption.

Would love some feedback. Since it's in beta, signups are limited but you can use "hackernews500" as an early access code to sign up now if you want to check it out.

Thanks!

EDIT (PS - It's not mobile friendly yet, so you'll probably run into some UI issues on mobile devices)

I've wanted to build out this idea for a while now, and finally did while home over the New Year.

I don't have a formal CS degree, and started teaching myself how to code ~18 months ago. It took a while for me to find good learning resources and tutorials along the way (do I learn Django 1.5 or 1.6?!?), and I would bookmark all the good resources that ended up actually being helpful.

I wanted to build a way for everyone to share the helpful tutorials they uncover so that, eventually (hopefully), there can be a place for people to find the top X, most up to date tutorials/resources for learning anything ... as rated by the community.

Would have saved me a heck of a lot of time when along the way. I'd love any feedback on this project!