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Would you elaborate on that, what makes it…",{"value":73,"source":52,"evidence":74},"Maker's brother designs websites but struggled with hosting and form handling",[75],{"id":55,"by":11,"text":56},[77,86],{"value":78,"source":52,"evidence":79},"AWS CloudFront CDN",[80,83],{"id":81,"by":11,"text":82},"22347736","Thank you, we're using AWS Cloudfront as the CDN. ToS needs to be re-written; currently, I used an online service to generate it :(",{"id":84,"by":11,"text":85},"22347402","Founder here: my entire stack is on AWS. I'm using CloudFront as the CDN",{"value":87,"source":52,"evidence":88},"AWS",[89],{"id":84,"by":11,"text":85},"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":94,"objections":117,"requests":156,"questions":180,"alternatives":206},[95,106,113],{"value":96,"source":66,"evidence":97},"Automatic minification and optimization are a good selling point",[98,102],{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"22347334","fs2","Looks interesting, the minification looks like a pretty good selling point. One thing I noticed is the slow connection from Australia, it seems your CDN is limited to Europe and…",{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"22347506","geocrasher","I like what you're doing but I have to admit that I am finding a lot of the front page copy to be somewhat awkward: \"Clodui automatically minifies all your HTML, CSS, and…",{"value":107,"source":66,"evidence":108},"Simple click-to-deploy is useful for designers",[109],{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"22347327","arkj","True, but I really like the simple click to deploy feature. I can see it will add value to designers who find simple deployments hard.",{"value":114,"source":52,"evidence":115},"Atomic deploys with instant rollback",[116],{"id":55,"by":11,"text":56},[118,130,141,149],{"value":119,"source":66,"evidence":120},"Hard to see the benefit over FTP plus Cloudflare, or over free options like Netlify and Firebase",[121,122,126],{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"22347098","cl0rkster","Worth noting that firebase (Google) provides a similar service. It's entirely free to host static websites. Definitely ends up on a cdn and definitely uses static compression.…",{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"22347146","ilovenetlify","Looks like Netlify",{"value":131,"source":66,"evidence":132},"Pricing is too high or too sophisticated",[133,137],{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},"22347569","lukevp","Your app seems geared toward users who are not very technical. I think your pricing structure is too sophisticated. I would include everything in the free plan and the tiers…",{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"22348937","vorpalhex","Woof, expensive. This might be worth it if there's live support included and a really easy control panel, but otherwise a similar setup is $60\u002Fyear. The image resizing and…",{"value":142,"source":66,"evidence":143},"Marketing copy is awkward and buzzword-heavy",[144,145],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"22347559","monkin","IMO all copy should be thrown away as it's aimed for non-technical users. So cut this technical buzzwords and write like for kids. ;)",{"value":150,"source":66,"evidence":151},"Unlimited bandwidth could be costly",[152,155],{"id":153,"by":147,"text":154},"22347431","> Thank you for the suggestion on pricing, I'll consider it and update it accordingly. You should calculate everything and move your prices up as you have unlimited bandwidth. 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I mention this because I think names matter for…",{"id":189,"by":186,"text":190},"22348460","I'm not sure if this was intentional but \"clod\" in UK English has a funny non-flattering meaning (google \"define:clod\").",{"id":192,"by":193,"text":194},"22348472","StavrosK","\"Clod\" as in \"stupid person\"? Was that intentional?",{"value":196,"source":66,"evidence":197},"What CDN is used",[198],{"id":169,"by":170,"text":171},{"value":200,"source":66,"evidence":201},"Whether WebP fallback works for Safari users",[202],{"id":203,"by":204,"text":205},"22347129","shakna","webp isn't supported at all by Safari, on any platform. 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