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- duckseason0
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- You laugh now, but in the future we'll look back and wonder how we ever lived with fewer than 14,000 media queries.nb
- haha, good God.
The rest of the code's not exactly readable or semantically-digesti... either. What a mess.detritus - Autokern, inityuekit
- well at least no poor dev will have to suffer that code.BabySnakes
- !importantArmandoEstrada
- *barfs from stressprophetone
- code looks like it was generated by some other code...vaxorcist
- wait.. is this the sort of code generated by some "convert to HTML" feature in some Microsoft product?vaxorcist
- utopian4
How a Web Design Company Crowdfunded Millions and Completely Disappeared
The Grid suddenly locked customers out of their websites and went silent for a year. Now, the CEO says he was naive. "I can imagine there's a few people who are pissed off."
- utopian1
Here we go again...
Grow your business with an AI-built website
Human-assisted AI builds your website in 60 seconds without the premium price tag.
- they totally ripped shopify.com for their site.hotroddy
- without the premium price tag your website is shitgrafician
- mg332
Just found this link on DesignerNews:
https://www.designernews.co/stor…
Lots of comments about how it's a complete failure.
- BrokenHD0
Founding Members,
Two weeks ago, we added our first group of Founding Members into The Grid beta, and sites are being created! Many of you have asked how long beta will be, who gets in, and when the next wave of beta access will be released, so we wanted to go through and answer your top questions directly. Here they are, in no particular order:
How many Founding Members are currently in beta?
100.
What kinds of sites can be built on The Grid right now? Can we see some of them?
Most sites built on The Grid currently are a single page feed or blog style layout. We're not quite at the point where we can build eCommerce or gallery based sites, but we've made great strides with the influx of content from our beta testers over the last few weeks, and we're confident that more varied site types will be on the horizon soon. We'll be sharing beta sites with you as we continue to work on tuning the output from The Grid's AI engine (and you can get a sneak peek at one of our internal sites in the team hangout video below).
Wait, but wasn't thegrid.io built on The Grid? Why don't all beta sites look like that?
Creating a unique look and feel for one site is much different than creating a site that is unique for every one of our 50k+ Founding Members. While thegrid.io was built on The Grid, it was at a point when we had one design system up and running. With the endless variations that are in the engine now, our current focus is on refining the output so that the color, typography, and layout systems all work in perfect harmony. The Grid's AI will learn and grow as we put more and more content through, so it will continue to improve over time.
When will the next round of beta testers get access?
As soon as we make our first 100 beta testers happy. We hope to have all of our Founding Members in as soon as possible, but until we get through this first round we can't predict how long beta will be - it's possible that the beta testing process could last anywhere from 3-6 months, with our goal being to increase the size of each beta wave as we progress. For more on our "100 Happy Users" goal, check out the video below from our Chairman and co-Founder, Brian Axe.
I have a site I've been waiting to build on The Grid, should I keep waiting?
We understand that some of you may be on timelines that require you to choose another website platform, and we are truly sorry for the wait. We are eager to get you onboard and using The Grid too! As we've mentioned in previous updates, we are granting all Founding Members an additional six months free on your one-year subscription to The Grid, and hope that the extra time will (in some small part) help make up for the delay. If you have a site that is integral to running your business or currently generating a high amount of traffic, we'd recommend waiting to switch your site over to The Grid until after beta is complete.
We'll be keeping you posted on The First 100 and how testing is going in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we know you've been wanting to hear more from us (and we love hearing from you!) so with that in mind, a few of our team members hopped on an impromptu Google Hangout to talk about what we've been working on recently. This was an experiment (and we'll keep doing them if you like seeing them) so here it is, raw and unedited:Keep an eye on your inbox and on Twitter @thegrid for more like this!
With Love,
The Grid Team- http://i.imgur.com/S…utopian
- Alan Moore has a lot of jobs there.identity
- Some of the designs from "The Hangout" video below...are absolutely horrible!utopian
- looks like general templates to me just varying sizes & color. Curios to see the final result.dbloc
- utopian2
Will this site ever launch?
- moldero0
$96/year, if that includes hosting we're all fucked
- thats 2.5 months of hosting for memoldero
- thats 2.5 years of hosting for meorganicgrid
- <say wut? wur dat?moldero
- www.bluehost.com $.95 month
unlimited: websites/email/bandw...
Excellent so far, 1 year later...organicgrid - 4.95 month sorryorganicgrid
- shit man, adios mt! thanks Ut!moldero
- <--awesome exchange of words therecbass99
- EightyDeuce0
- Every time that I see this GIF I think of Georges...true story!organicgrid
- lolmoldero
- That is racist, but I do too...Maaku
- fadein111
God - what were they thinking with this?
The demo looked amazing and I almost felt no bitterness for the potential impact it could have on my business as it seemed like such a great idea.
Not too mention the technology that may have been behind it.
But then - the rot set in - a failed launch, no real proof of concept etc. and all done under the glaring eyes of the net - the same audience they had shouted at with their 'brilliant' idea.
I have little sympathy - regardless of the failed technology/platform it is a lesson in how not to handle PR/marketing online.
You will get your ass bitten promising the world and delivering little.
I do hope to be proven wrong though as the concept is still brilliant - a website that adapts to content / aims at a particular time...- banged that out on my phone rushed... apologies for poor writing.fadein11
- utopian1
I was really looking forward to seeing this technology in action.
- fadein112
Oh dear... talk about not managing expectations from the start. They look like idiots now.
It all seemed to good to be true.
Shame.
- slappy0
This is great for people who don't actually have businesses, ie. paid hobbies.
I think the grid would fail in the first round of feedback with our clients though.
- pressplay0
after watching the video, I immediatly fired our programmer. there you go bitch with your obscure drupal nonsense, one less mouth to feed, woooot, I’m a business genius!!
- ukit20
The idea that you can input a vague suggestion like "I want to sell more widgets" and the site will construct the layout using "AI" doesn't sound believable. In reality it will be probably be choosing between a number of predetermined templates that are combined based on the options you choose.
Having said that, I'm sure there is a place for services like this, or Squarespace. But even for a very basic small business site, the client will quickly get to a point where they want some custom feature that isn't covered by the template system.
- this is nothing like Squarespace - but I know what you meanfadein11
- I'm not convinced it's really that different. It looks like it just abstracts the process so that you are making the design choices at a higher level rather than tweaking individual elements. Having said that I didn't pay the $99 to sign up :)ukit2
- a higher level rather than tweaking individual elements. Having said that I didn't pay the $96 to sign up :)ukit2
- SigDesign0
I do feel that website design / build services on a smaller level is fading away thanks to services like this, and SquareSpace.
It's for the best, because those small clients are typically more trouble than they're worth.