Moby - Indiegogo campaign help

Hello all!

I hope it's not against the rules, but I wanted to let you know about an application I'm developing for building mobile web pages. It's not finished just yet, but I recently started a crowdfunding campaign, and I was hoping to find some enthusiastic supporters here

If you're interested, please take a minute to check out the campaign at:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/moby


Thank you,
~ T.

 

I sincerely doubt you'll find many enthusiastic supporters here, unfortunately. Why? Because your project is an example on how sites fail to consider the audience, not to mention probably a bad way to code anything. Now, don't get me wrong, since I haven't seen anything you've coded apart from the webside linked in the IG-campaign, I shan't assume that you're incompetent, but that webpage suggests that you are. Inline js, inline CSS, an overuse of divs, no semantics... it's horrible.

And, if the website is coded to standards (as it should be to begin with), it shouldn't take any more time reconfiguring anything to cope for mobile users - a website should be dynamic and elastic, and should work on any type of screen, or even without a screen.

As for the statement about content, and having less content loaded for mobile versions, that will assume that you have your own subdomain, or domain, for mobile users. Which is also a practice that is shunned amongst proper developers.

Sorry, but while I do see the point in your project, and I'm pretty sure you'll get customers, since most people have no clue, I highly doubt you'll find much support here. @deathshadow , care to comment?

 

Eh, @PoPSiCLe covered the bases... If the resulting product is anything like the current site, it will be a train wreck inaccessible disaster -- a laundry list of how NOT to build a website if you actually care about users.

Generally speaking, your preview pics REEK of not knowing even the most basic of things like colour contrasts in emissive colourspace... Dark Cyan on Black? REALLY? ...much less accessible design. It almost feels like a PSD jockey under the DELUSION they are a "designer" is involved. Even the concept, "specialized for mobile" shows a complete lack of grasping modern development concepts -- or even classical ones like why HTML even exists in the first place and what CSS is actually for.

But that's typical of such tools; "For people who know nothing about building websites, BY people who know nothing about building websites". NOT exactly a recipe for success.