Flowershow Landing Page

Simple, elegant landing page that explains what the product is and provides a way to get started (or signup if that is not ready) so that we can start sharing/testing with people and get early interest

Acceptance

Tasks

Copy prep

Implement

#meta decide what repo this lives in e.g. flowershow main repo or a separate repo ✅2022-06-22 KISS => same repo plus it means we can direct trial flowershow components in the site (ie. eat our own dogfood)
use tailwindui to sketch out
add copy
rinse and repeat

Bonus

logo / icon?
favicon

Value Prop Brainstorming

Quality

Ready to go (out of the box)
Simple??
Powerful (?)
Quick
Customizable/Under your control

Bad Alternatives

When you don't have the product at all …

Don't publish/share your stuff at all
- Your stuff is not out in the world
  - Don't contribute to the world (wasted resource)
  - No recognition: no-one sees your ideas and hears about you
  - Not driven to improve it
Share your stuff in a way that looks bad (or is hard to use or doesn't work e.g. data not explorable, not able to share on social media?)
- Reduced impact and look bad
  - Ashamed / makes you look bad
  - Dysfunctional
  - Less able share
Build your own publishing system
- Impossible or inefficient
  - time consuming
  - hard to maintain
  - requires complex skills
Use existing solution like obsidian publish or homegrown effort
- Obsidian publish: One size fits all with basic look and feel (and expensive)
  - Can't customize or extend (so can't theme)
  - Costly
- Only works for one tool (obsidian)

How we do it better

We make it easy to share your work [super-charged markdown content]
- free and easy
In a way you're proud of - elegant, useable and shareable
Without need for complex skills, time consuming coding or costly restrictive tools

Best customers

Tech-sector folks taking notes. Users who know git but don't want to build their own site e.g. data scientist, product managers, coders who are busy
- Fast, simple
- Elegant, powerful
Devs who want something they can customize and extend
- Customizability (open-source)
- Quick to get started
Students and researchers
- Price
- Non-technical
Data geeks - same as 1+2?

Hero / Summary

Present your digital garden to the world

Publish your [markdown] notes to the web

turn your (digital garden / second brain / notebook) into an elegant (and customizable) website in seconds.

Author in Obsidian, Publish in Flowershow
Present your ideas, beautifully
Share your digital garden.

Turn [markdown] content [and data] in a repo in a functional, elegant website. Aka:

Make a beautiful "Digital garden"
Make our "second brain" explorable by others
Obsidian publish alternative that is open source and customizable

Features

Functional and elegant means:

Clean
Beautiful
Dark/light theme
Great navigation
Supports obsidian for authoring plus key plugins like zotero connector bibliographic references

Features

Markdown: full markdown plus footnotes, linked headings etc
MDX: support for rich component additions
Obsidian compatible: support Obsidian wiki-link extensions to markdown
Bibliographic references: use standard [@jones-2020] style bibliographic citations in markdown (compatible with Obsidian zotero, R markdown etc)
Tailwind: built on tailwind so easy to adjust and customize
Desktop and mobile: beautiful, responsive theme out of the box
Built on MDX so you can use everything Next.JS provides out of the box including full React e.g. want a custom front page? No problem!
Full text search: search quickly and easily.

Inbox

Things to process

flowershow-brainstorm-2022-03-22.excalidraw
- Tagline ideas
flowershow
- Tagline ideas