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The first grid.io sites have surfaced and they're kinda terrible

over 7 years ago from Giovanni Hobbins, giovanni.io

  • Irving TorresIrving Torres, over 7 years ago

    I signed up as a founding member in 2014 because I was working at a Y combinator startup that offered a SAAS website builder . I didn't get invited into theGrid beta until this year! Almost two years later ( I don't even work at that startup anymore). My first impression after using theGrid was that the founders really nailed it with the Marketing because they tricked me into paying and using their shoddy web builder. There was so much hype around this launch and so much advertising that I'm sure everyone knew about it. The "AI" aspect of the grid is a joke because all it really does is try to match color palettes and it does a horrible job at that. There is a chrome extension to add content that is buggy and the layouts are really ugly. They're not even minimalistic. They're just plain ugly and the UI/UX is all over the place. I'm kind of disappointed because I expected this to be a true step towards AI site builders.

    12 points
    • Anton LipovskoyAnton Lipovskoy, over 7 years ago

      Totally agree on their marketing success, It felt like they were all over internet for a couple of days.

      3 points
    • Joseph Decker, over 7 years ago

      Curious, can founding members sue "The Grid" for not offering what they've promised? For deceiving people?

      "The Grid" sounds more like a scam, rather than an attempt to change things.

      4 points
      • Ian GoodeIan Goode, over 7 years ago

        Curious, can founding members sue "The Grid" for not offering what they've promised? For deceiving people?

        Not in any sane country. What exactly did they promise?

        2 points
        • Tony Jones, over 7 years ago

          "Just throw in videos, images, text, products and more and magically get a website that looks like it was pored over by a million-dollar design team. Once and for all, content is king."

          0 points
          • Connor NorvellConnor Norvell, over 7 years ago (edited over 7 years ago )

            Website design is relative. we can all agree that these websites are terrible, but they could say that they provided exactly what they said they would. unfortunately, there is no case against them for that

            EDIT: if they claimed it cured cancer, that would be false advertising and very dangerous, which is why essential oil companies are in trouble with the FDA right now

            0 points
          • Ian GoodeIan Goode, over 7 years ago

            Good luck with that.

            0 points
        • Joseph Decker, over 7 years ago

          "The Grid harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to take everything you throw at it - videos, images, text, urls and more - and automatically shape them into a custom website unique to you."

          Let me tell you that I'm not very familiar with the in-depth knowledge of AI, so — is it correct of The Grid to say that they've build a AI (website builder)? Seems to me that a AI would be much more complex. If it was purely used as advertisement, then it would ultimately be a scam.

          0 points