Long term dream is to have the HTML output look good enough that people can edit at both WYSIWYG and code levels.
I know this isn't supposed to be a finished product.
One piece of feedback - you have got to make it so drawings auto-save instead of disappearing when you click exit instead of save. This is something that both me and my son have encountered in just the 20 minutes we've been playing with it. It's such a bummer to see your lovingly mouse-drawn art disappear into nothingness because you hit the wrong button.
One side of me thought, "oh man they know their target. Animated gifs and websites that just want to share rather than worry about fancy schmancy Silicon Valley nonsense design.
But then the other side of me detected the typical 2020s startup pattern of "landing page where you can't do anything but sign up or read a "compelling" story that should make you feel feels."
Gimme that nostalgia. Gimme my page! Gimme gimme! Let me start screwing around IMMEDIATELY and let me save it to my disk or offer to host it for me if I make an account.
EDIT: I just found the Edit button in the corner that gives me almost exactly what I want. Ohhh sound effects! This is snappy! That Edit button should be front and center... or even just on by default. Also I LOVE "Not visible on phones" as a very simple solution. Sure it's limiting, but I think it's far more accessible than "oh there's multiple views and you have to worry all about responsiveness." Nope... just... "this is bonus space for desktops." Maybe I'll hide some easter eggs there.
EDIT2: my last criticism is that you should be up front about the pricing model without me first having to make an account. The model seems reasonable, but it's yet another "2020s era pattern to capture you before telling you the details." I hate making accounts only to find out later that the pricing is silly. Makes me feel like I'm just a pawn to some SV startup garbage.
Unfortunately, the ease of use has a limitation: on mobile, only the center column of the page is visible. This makes it unsuitable for a portfolio site with large landscape images.
Would this use case require another site such as EEE.page, or will mmm.page evolve into a more complex system?
I love that this product is responsive too. The creator(s) could've easily ignored mobile and kept it moving. Current website builders are serious about business whereas this one makes no assumptions and is quite fun.
* The move to front/back hotkey tooltips are both listed as ].
* There doesn't seem to be a way to add a link to words/text within a text box, only the text box itself. This is quite different from how most people expect links to work on web pages.
* Speaking of links, if you have an image with transparent pixels in front of another image (such as the HyperCard screenshot) and you add a link to the image in back, the link is not clickable. It makes sense why, but it's a bit counterintuitive (and also limits the usefulness of images with transparency).
I recently created a newsletter [1] to write and experiment more a la "An Internet Canvas." Feel free to give it a read.
You can also find me on Twitter [2], and support my project via patronships [3].
Oh, and go explore all the other sites people have made [4].
[1] https://woolgather.sh/issue/1
[2] https://twitter.com/xhfloz
Any plans to open source the editing tools part of this? (separate from the web page building part of it). Seems great for annotating/collaborating on existing web pages.
This Internet Canvas seems like a step in that direction.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/18/facebook-launches-e-gg-an-...
It is something I would definitely look into paying for in the future if the site needs to grow into something bigger, or for other projects I want to do.
Keep up the great work!
