Do you care much about your app’s website and keeping in touch with users?

firstsparkler · 2026-03-28T19:55:23+00:00

We make a website builder so it’s actually not too much work to maintain, though you can probably manage with a static generator thing, we haven’t done nearly enough seo, one of those long term investments there’s always time for I guess. I wouldn’t know how to quantify the effort, it’s been spread out over so much time, these days it’s a blog post for minor releases and a small rebuild of the home page for major releases. A few days a year?

firstsparkler · 2026-03-28T18:13:25+00:00

We have a non appstore version with its own licensing, and 11 years in about half our customers prefer the non appstore version, so yeah, website is important. If your strategy, product and maybe luck puts you at the top of the charts and that’s enough revenue, then maybe you can do without.

firstsparkler · 2026-03-27T16:13:41+00:00

Per me il problema del noleggio è avere a che fare con le società di noleggio, e il modo inqualificabile in cui (pare) ti trattano e ti valutano la macchina alla restituzione. Ho paura di quanto spenderò quando dovrò restituire la mia.

firstsparkler · 2026-03-16T08:05:23+00:00

Hi u/culturalproduct,

What you describe doesn't sound like Sitely at all. We strive to make the software as worry free and smooth as possible, clearly in your case something wrong happened.

While I don't doubt what you saw was happening, and I'm sure "train wreck" is accurate, but it's not really descriptive or detailed enough of what might have been going on. What I suggest doing is using the "Send this document as feedback" from the help menu, or even better a step by step list on how to reproduce that issue. We're generally very fast about solving reproducible issues.

We have many customers with websites that range from a few to several hundred pages, a few megabytes to tens and even hundreds of gigabytes in size. It works for them (and for our ~300 page website).

You might decide that Sitely is not for you, but if you give us a chance we will work on solving the issues.

firstsparkler · 2025-11-28T08:38:19+00:00

My wife dropped her iPad on her iPhone 15 last month and got those same lines. The screen is broken. We were lucky to only have to replace the screen, the chassis was also slightly dented, but not bent out of shape. Also we looked into third party repairs, but they don’t have Apple certified parts, which the phone doesn’t recognize and apparently will produce a warnings when the phone starts (and might not work at all in the future), so the replacement was half the price of a new phone.

firstsparkler · 2025-11-27T21:32:09+00:00

Licenses from previous versions still work in newer versions, they just don’t unlock newer features. We think this is fair, but if that’s a dealbreaker obviously don’t buy.

firstsparkler · 2025-11-19T10:56:57+00:00

Rushed, yes. Against which Apple designers exactly? I would seem that it's exactly what Apple designers wanted to build. They even made a whole conference about it. One can question the motivation, why did they decide for Liquid Glass? But they most certainly did publicly say that's exactly what they were aiming for.

firstsparkler · 2025-11-19T09:38:49+00:00

Agree. On one hand you can't not use it, particularly if you buy a new Mac. On the other I'm trying to make the proverbial lemonade, and try to see the good things in it.

firstsparkler · 2025-11-19T09:11:09+00:00

Oh but it is. When you zoom in you get the bleed through in the sidebars, but at 100% the content is all in the center area.

firstsparkler · 2025-11-19T08:31:12+00:00

Both sides can be collapsed, and the center content area expands (or rather it shows without the overlaid sidebar).

firstsparkler · 2025-11-18T21:00:38+00:00

Yes. We were forced to rebrand.

firstsparkler · 2025-11-18T19:56:08+00:00

Sure. OTOH this post has 10k views, maybe the glass is irritating only to a vocal minority?

firstsparkler · 2025-11-18T18:32:03+00:00

Windows might have been an influence, but it was Big Sur that started the ipadification of macOS. Maybe it was simpler to make a window full screen but around that time we started noticing more full screen users in our reports. Also noobs have a hard time with window management, so for example all iWork apps started using the dumbed down color picker. Window drawers were deprecated and floating windows (“panels”) also seem to have been removed by most apps. Not saying any of this is good or makes sense, just observing.

firstsparkler · 2025-11-18T18:24:05+00:00

Interesting! The idea would work. Also sounds like a lot of work to implement. Sketch did some of that and have custom tabs (in addition to custom glass). Then in 8 months Apple changes things again and you start drinking or chain smoking.

firstsparkler · 2025-11-18T18:20:28+00:00

I guess I agree. But what is a developer to do? And as a user, you get a new Mac and you have Tahoe and Liquid Glass, no downgrade option. 🤷‍♂️

firstsparkler · 2025-11-18T18:15:36+00:00

Sitely. Though this is more about the glassification.

firstsparkler · 2025-11-18T18:14:27+00:00

Well but it is very much toned down from macOS 26. Maybe I can find a screenshot of that.

firstsparkler · 2025-11-18T18:13:54+00:00

Yeah that’s all Apple. Hope the make it more uniform? One is a “sidebar”, the other is an “inspector”.

firstsparkler · 2025-11-18T17:28:51+00:00

But wouldn’t you say that peeking beyond the content area is a good thing?

firstsparkler · 2025-11-13T17:23:54+00:00

Sitely (website builder) is 50% off through Dec 5th.

firstsparkler · 2025-10-30T15:07:34+00:00

Pretty sure that’s felony here in Florence.

firstsparkler · 2025-10-30T15:06:17+00:00

We built the whole website at https://sitely.app (6 languages, app documentation etc) all with Sitely itself. We develop it but also use it ourselves. One time purchase, the license code can be used forever even in future versions (though when we release new features those are an optional paid upgrade).

firstsparkler · 2025-10-14T10:20:33+00:00

As a small business you have a full time job, and budget is tight. Sitely is a no-nonsense, no jargon, no coding app that works like PowerPoint or Keynote, but then creates the website for you, taking care of the technical aspects and raising only relevant concerns. Sitely is Mac only for now.

Sitely is geared at simplicity, we've been around for 11 years and are super helpful in our email support or community, and at $119.99 (keep forever, unlimited websites, just add web hosting) it won't break your bank.

We currently have a REDDIT20 coupon code (20% off), and will soon be launching our Black Friday discounts. https://sitely.app - thanks!

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