Design Philosophy
Our goal at Flairr is to build a powerful tool that doesn't hide programming abstractions, but reduce the learning curve so that average people can use it.
The original social media is the internet itself.
As powerful as programmer's tools from Day 1
Website builders such as Squarespace, Wix, Wordpress, etc. create abstractions on top of coding ones. They also hide anything that would scare away beginners. This makes it increasingly hard (if not impossible) to make a website exactly the way you want it when you deviate from the template that you choose.
Programmers love Jekyll and Hugo. These tools are powerful and flexible, but have a steep learning curve since you have to host the website . Our goal with Flairr is reduce that learning curve while not sacrificing power and flexibility.
This means that we do not want to hide any programming abstractions from the user. We want to make it easy to use these abstractions, but we do not want to hide them.
Easy to update
Most website building tools are hard to setup, and just as hard to update.
Our goal is to Flairr very easy to maintain in addition to setup. It's like gardening.
That's why we made Flairr mobile friendly, so that you can update it from anywhere.
Flairr is also offline first. Each time you make a change, your site is updated on mobile. And published to the internet when you click Publish. This means that you can edit your site from ANYWHERE! This includes places with bad internet connection, airplanes. Just make the changes you want and click Publish when you're at a location with good internet.
Media lives on your phone. Updating a website from your phone should be as easy as posting on Instagram.