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Yep, thanks for pointing that out!


Oh that's really cool. To answer your questions:

- A/B testing: not supported yet, although we are thinking on building this. Would love to learn more from your use case! - Incoming referral, bounce rate, time on page are available through our built-in analytics. If you're familiar with Plausible https://plausible.io, we're using their self-hosted version to offer the analytics feature, so you should get everything they offer. - Not familiar with n8n.io, looks like it's similar to Zapier. We don't have any integration like this yet, but most functional components that you can add to your Typedream site (like forms, waitlist, etc) can be done using HTML embeds. For example, to add a form, you can embed an Airtable form in your Typedream site. This means that any automation supported by those tools can be used.

With that said, interactions such as allowing customer to buy a product, sending emails, and adding orders to Airtable/Google Sheets can be done by using a third party service, like Stripe Payment Links to allow users to buy a product, then use Stripe's functionality or Zapier/n8n.io integrations to send emails or add orders to Airtable/Google Sheets. This is also the case with comments, for example you can embed https://commentbox.io/ into your Typedream site to enable comments.

Hope this makes sense!


thanks for the reply! will have to check out Stripe's email/orderflow integrations, didn't know about those :)

does TypeDream support custom email domains? (example: myemail@mysite.com)

re: A/B testing - my use-case is pretty simple. i have some assets i'd like to sell and want to A/B test what landing page converts the best (could also be useful to A/B test what landing page converts to the highest price/longest subscription if someone's selling subs).

alternative use-case -- A/B test what article titles lead to the most search engine (or other inbound referral) traffic. let's say i have a set of content i've created, i'd like to have test same blog post with different article titles to know which one performs the best

does that help?


Here's a link to the Stripe payment links https://stripe.com/payments/payment-links.

For email domains, we don't handle your emails. You could use any email provider that you want, like MailChimp, Sendgrid, etc. Since connecting custom domains doesn't require you to point your nameservers to Typedream, you can add MX records, etc. that is usually required for you to set up your email provider.

Thanks for your explanation on A/B testing, that makes sense and we have had a couple of similar requests as well! This is definitely something we're looking to add as a feature.


Oh where did you find this link? This looks like a broken link that leads nowhere, we should update that. You can check out the showcase here https://typedream.com/showcase


Thanks for the input, yes it's a recurring billing saas model, includes hosting, and the WYSIWYG is referring to a WYSIWYG rich text editor, like Medium, Notion, etc.

Thanks for pointing out about Pinegrow as well, this is my first time hearing about it! We focus more towards non-pro users and trying to make the UX as familiar and simple as possible. Seems like Pinegrow is somewhat similar to Webflow and the pricing is more "per user" than per site.

Is there any specific reason why you would like build lots of sites? We did encounter some requests on enabling code export and make a software package pricing so users can host the exported sites themselves, would love to understand your use case!


Ah really interesting, we haven't thought of this. We are building a CMS feature right now so probably similar to your first point, it could be possible by changing the CMS template.

Have you had any solution that allows you to do this with other website builders?


I've never seen a CMS implement something like this. Before I started my current company I would do web consulting on the side. I've built hundreds of Jekyll sites for people, and I would always create a variables file to manage information like this:

- Company address

- Primary email

- Legal name

- Display name

- etc.

Those would then all have key value pairs like:

- legal_name="Company Co Inc."

- display_name="Company"

It's a simple use case, but if the company ever changes their name, it's one change I have to make. Apply this to any repeatable bits of text and you can see how not having this is a major pain with tools like Webflow. The is especially true because I can't just globally search and replace like I can in a text editor.


Thank you!


Yes we actually did have a couple questions on how to change the background color, and realized that using a container is "doable" but "not intuitive", so definitely something we should improve on!

And yes the context menu is covered when it's near the top , a bug we need to fix.

About the color, I am not sure whether you want the ugly color or you don't lol, but you seem to have figured it out :D

Thanks for the feedback!


Thank you!


The sites are deployed on Vercel and Digital Ocean. Both platforms allow users to connect their custom domains, and they auto-generate the SSL for these domains.


Gotcha. That makes sense since each site is deployed separately and not a subdomain of a single deploy. Thanks for sharing!


Oh hmm I'm not familiar with Bootstrap Studio, but from what you described, it's quite different because our users don't interact with the underlying HTML/CSS of their sites.

We use React because our editor is built in React (which does have a lot of interactivity and changing states), and so, since it's a WYSIWYG editor, the user will be seeing how their site is rendered as they are editing it, so we render their site in React as well. Also, we are using this React framework, Next.JS, which have a functionality to generate static pages from our React component. At the end of the day the React does get compiled into static pages in HTML/JS/CSS. I'm not sure if this answers your question though, would be happy to answer more questions


Yes, I think I understand. Thanks for explaining. Does this mean that the sites won't render if JS is disabled?

I have stopped/started learning React several times, because I always end up preferring go back to simple HTML/CSS pages. Bootstrap Studio is something that works for me because it's has that nice split between pure WYSIWIG view and code editing view.


NextJS static pages do render if JS is disabled.


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