md2site.com Beta

Thank you for your interest, helping me beta test my Markdown to website generator md2site.com. In the following guide, I'll walk you through the beta, ask you to perform specific tasks, and ask you for feedback. The beta test should not take more than 5 minutes of your time.

What is md2site

In short, md2site is a simple website generator. The difference between traditional website generators and md2site, is that content is written in Markdown text, and the user - other than selecting a visual template - has no influence on placement of visual elements.

Instead of focusing on layout, design, color schema, menus and sub-pages, the idea is to focus on the content and simplicity. md2site does not aim on taking over the "website generator market", but targets specifically for simple static landing pages and information campaigns.

Examples are:

Screenshot of md2site's Markdown editor:

Updates

December 26th 2021

The JavaScript code injection for projects has been released. That means you can add JS to any project. That is useful for dynamic content, Analytics trackers and for custom CSS style overrides.

December 28th 2021

The Mobile experience has mostly been fixed by making the interface fully responsive and by adding dedicated mobile components.

ToDos

Now I understand, that you don't necessarily need a website "right now", and to give you some inspiration on what to do, to test the product, let me give you a simple homework.

Please create a simple "Meetup" website, for a gathering of an interest group of yours. Can be literally anything. Could be a Meetup for tech people, for soccer fans, for people from a specific country or region, fans of a movie, show or band.

Here is an example of what I have created for a Meetup of iOS engineers.

It's a simple page for a made-up Meetup. Don't overthink it. The content of the website is not the point of this training, but to test md2site ☺️

Please go to md2site.com and see if you're able to accomplish your goal, of creating a simple Meetup website, without any hand holding. Or in other words: Please help me test, if I made the product easy to understand ☺️

Survey

To capture feedback and to inspire you on what to test, please have a look at this survey and once you've gathered enough data points, for yourself, please take the survey.

Bonus

The following section is concerned about the Premium subscription feature. In order to test the Stripe integration, I've added a "Beta Tier" for my beta testing friends. It's a $1 payment. That's the least amount I need to charge, in order for Stripe to accept it as a payment. The money will be reimbursed.

Premium features right now are DNS linking and JavaScript injection.

If you're familiar with JS and/or DNS linking, please let me know and I will happily add you to the Beta Tier and reimburse you financially.

Contact

Known Issues

  • When creating a new project, we're getting a "Deployment Failure" error message. This error message is not correct. The deployment works. A fix is pending.
  • Domains can't be moved to a new project. If you have given a project a custom domain, then you can't use this domain for another project. A fix is pending.
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