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by nathanfig9 hours ago |
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Polished and easy to use website builders have been around for a long time, from Wordpress all the way to Wix.

The fact is, most people aren't builders and never will be. Building software is about formalizing and automating processes, and 95% of folks aren't interested in putting even the most basic effort into improving their business by approching it at a strategic level. Too focused on keeping the lights on and/or more interested in field operations.

For another example look at the many businesses using @gmail addresses to run their business while Google Workplace has streamlined custom domains for a while.

So in practice, ChatGPT Sites will mainly enable software agencies to build websites and offload maintenance to the customer : just manage it from your ChatGPT account. The equivalent of Bring your own cloud for Mom and Pop businesses, and other small companies. Not even sure ChatGPT Sites will create meaningful downward pressure on agency rates.

Lesson learned the hard way.

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upvoteby maxgashkov5 hours ago|
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> Polished and easy to use website builders have been around for a long time, from Wordpress all the way to Wix.

The issue with the Wordpress and Wix is that the site stay polished for approximately 1 second after it has been initially published. In 6mo~1yr it's unmaintainable pile of dogshit that is easier to redo from scratch.

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upvoteby hackerbeat4 hours ago|
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Also: The Wordpress Block Editor is a mess and has a very steep learning curve.
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upvoteby xcafebabe7 hours ago|
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could not agree more! most people really aren't builders. AI enables builders
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upvoteby throwaway3141557 hours ago|
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Oh come on. Sure, it might not be a production-capable system. But comparing an Astra 6/Sol 6.1 powered sites to wordpress and wix is apples and oranges.
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upvoteby rednb7 hours ago|
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An Astra powered site is your representation of a polished and capable business website. For the average joe, a Wix website fits the bill, their representation is not the same as yours. They focus on items such as whether or not the theme is beautiful.
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upvoteby estearum7 hours ago|
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I would bet there’s a (very) nontrivial number of people who have attempted to build something in Wix etc and got bogged down and frustrated enough to quit.

Lots.

I’m a pretty sophisticated user (both a designer and software engineer) and I’ve ragequit several of these tools before.

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upvoteby CuriouslyC6 hours ago|
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I hate Wix. I tried it to see if it could streamline things for me about a year and a half ago, and I quickly realized I could set up an Eleventy site, customize it and host it way faster. Now that agents are better and Cloudflare's API is fully exposed, I can have the agent search for a domain, buy it, set it up, set up the site and get it working on pages and probably be done before Wix onboarding was even complete.
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upvoteby sixtyj7 hours ago|
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I recommend to all my customers - publish and use your own domain.
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upvoteby hollowturtle5 hours ago|
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I mean Wordpress been around for decades, it’s solid, mature and everywhere. I’d even say way better than any vibe coded site
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upvoteby jmathai4 hours ago|
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I tried to set up a Wordpress site for someone last month. I suggested it because of the reasons you said.

I’m convinced that’s the only reason Wordpress is still popular. The administrative experience was atrocious. Actually, that is an understatement.

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upvoteby tomtom13378 hours ago|
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Really cool idea! Beat level 6! I'm still not sure how to explain how it is showing more than 3 dimensions on a 2D screen though! Would be nice to be able to choose which dimensions are represented at the various N-dimensions, but the UI might be tricky to get nice.
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upvoteby nathanfig7 hours ago|
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Yeah you have actually picked up on something that the game intentionally does to help the user: If the cheese can be reached by any of the dimensions you are currently on, then it will ensure that dimension is in the subset of dimensions you receive when you go down a dimension.

Otherwise I'd have to introduce some kind of dimension picker. Maybe a fun hardmode.

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upvoteby tomtom13377 hours ago|
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Oh I see! Thanks for explaining that - I did notice that sometimes a subset that I didn't expect was chosen.

Did the LLM explain its reasoning for how it is showing the higher dimensions? Or perhaps this is a standard way of attempting to display higher dimensional space?

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upvoteby nathanfig6 hours ago|
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I didn't ask about standard representations, but I think the graph representation works well when paired with the discrete moves this maze allows. If we wanted continuous spaces it would probably be harder to play and harder to represent, but maybe more interesting.
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upvoteby sixtyj7 hours ago|
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*.chatgpt.site - I see many dead sites in very near future.

Is it possible to export site to own domain?

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upvoteby nathanfig6 hours ago|
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Yes, I've exported and self-hosted in the past. I'll sometimes use Sites to mockup something and then I'll download and pass it onto another agent for use in something bigger.
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upvoteby riffic7 hours ago|
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From what I can tell, "Sites" product supports custom domains so it's not an "export" per se but it is a way to map.

https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/sites?surface=web#connect-a-c...

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001339-creating-and-us...

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upvoteby ndarray3 hours ago|
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The dimension knob doesn't have user-select: none; and you probably have no idea what that means and why it's annoying.
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upvoteby nathanfig42 minutes ago|
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As a developer I almost got defensive, but I think I feel what you're feeling. Dealing with change is hard. I am a developer who once felt value for knowing these things too. Today I wouldn't even bother opening the developer pane to test CSS changes. Tools that held so much potential to me are now headed for a museum, and it sucks.
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upvoteby internet200035 minutes ago|
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user-select: none is considered harmful. Don't use it.
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upvoteby Juvination8 hours ago|
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I made it through the 6th puzzle, it was a lot of fun. I basically just stayed in 3 dimensions until I had to move up and then went back to 3.
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upvoteby nathanfig8 hours ago|
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Yeah I think moving up and down dimensions is the best strategy. I find spamming movements in 6D works but only because the paths are dense enough.
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upvoteby svachalek9 hours ago|
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Wow that game makes my head hurt. Cool idea!
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upvoteby nathanfig9 hours ago|
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Thanks! Yeah I find it helps to jump back down to lower (comprehensible) dimensions, move closer at that level, then jump back up.
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upvoteby bgirard7 hours ago|
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Same. I went to a music festival and their website was hard to use, and the schedule was difficult to understand. And the area had bad connectivity. A few prompts and I was able to build a much better offline site.
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upvoteby Puppies4Life8 hours ago|
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Melted my brain. 10/10.
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upvoteby financetechbro6 hours ago|
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Super fun game!
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upvoteby jr35928 hours ago|
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pretty fun! beat level 6 after about 4 minutes... should add some more levels :)
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upvoteby nathanfig7 hours ago|
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Yeah if I were to make it harder I would introduce more sparse connections requiring the user to actually understand the layout, right now you can kind of "feel" your way towards the cheese. Most brutal maze would be one with only one possible path and lots of backtracking required.

Maybe I'll do that and post to HN later, didn't expect this much response!

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upvoteby nashashmi5 hours ago|
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Got so annoyed at this game. +/- Y should be up and down. Gets confusing with x being the same way.
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upvoteby nathanfig36 minutes ago|
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Got curious and don't seem to be able to reproduce what you mean? In 2D Y+ corresponds to top of the screen and Y- to the bottom. X- is left and X+ is right. In 3D and above you can rotate the shape around so there is no real up or down? But maybe I'm missing some edge case where you go up into some high dimension position then back down?
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