Hi, all! ๐
I'm building a (hopefully no-code) platform for independent content creators to deal with digital piracy. (If you want to see the work-in-progress: https://takedown.digital/. The design is loosely inspired by Pieter Levels's book MAKE. I tried to ask him if that's cool but I think he muted me after I sent him a million bug reports for RemoteOk and MAKE. Ha)
Anyway. Before I launch the site, I want to build some free features and some paid features.
The big need right now is a database of information about how to send piracy takedown notices on various platforms. Example: you could paste a link into the search box, e.g. instagram.com, and Takedown Digital would give you details like DMCA contact email address, DMCA webform link, takedown process, special requirements, cooperation score, speed of response, etc.
I'm spending a lot of time trying to figure out how to build this (fairly simple?) search functionality. I would be happy adding a separate subdomain to handle this if it can be built and hosted outside of Carrd.
Tools I've tried: Carrd, Airtable, Google Sheets, Zapier, Boundless, Squarespace, Bubble, probably more I forgot. All of these either a) don't have the right features, b) are too buggy, or c) are taking me too long to figure out. Surprisingly, Squarespace looks like the most promising. ๐ค
Any advice would be appreciated!
(Also, feel free to give me feedback about the site if you feel like it.)
Thanks,
Kevin
P.S. Carrd is awesome.
#ask-ih
My unhelpful answer: learn some basic HTML, CSS + JS. Set up Algolia with their prebuilt widgets. I think you'd be surprised how easy this is - and you'd get to learn some code along the way!
Thanks for the tip! I almost certainly won't do it ;) but I appreciate it nonetheless.
Just keep a little pocket in the back of your mind open to the idea that learning to code, to a basic degree, is no where near as hard as you think it is :)
Definitely will do! I've done a fair amount of coding in a Ruby DSL made for web testing via the Selenium library API (Watir). I actually love coding but I know almost nothing about frontend code and most of my project ideas are so basic that it feels like I can get away without code... But maybe not. There are more and more no-code tools all the time, but they're not quite keeping up with my ambition. So you may be right in the end.