Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website
Landing page is crisp and precise. I love the idea. Congratulations on the launch.<p>Auto-complete is fast and relevant. I believe you&#x27;re boosting local results? That&#x27;s super nice. The generated webpage is nicely filled with details from Google Maps (?) along with reviews and a contact-us form. I like the overall simplicity of adding and editing subsections of the pages, too. Kudos.<p>Quick questions:<p>1. From where&#x27;d you scrape data for businesses world-wide, if you don&#x27;t mind revealing? The data you have (judging by auto-complete) is frankly unsettling but not surprising.<p>2. There&#x27;s e-commerce too, and the flow is manual: Upload photos, add price and description. Simple enough. As your product evolves, how&#x27;d you plan to manage to keep it that way rather than turn it into a Shopify-clone which most business owners would then need a <i>IT guy</i> to run it for them...?<p>3. On the pricing page, you mention business plans are coming soon, but the only two features I found that&#x27;s extra from the free plan are <i>24&#x2F;7 support</i> and <i>...and more</i>. Curious: what <i>more</i>?<p>4. How long have you been working on this idea? What were you inspired by, initially?<p>5. How do you generate the pages? Randomly choose a template and fit the data in, or is it powered by AI? I see that no matter what I choose as a <i>Goal</i> among <i>Brand</i>, <i>Leads</i>, and <i>Conversion</i> the template and the structure of the page remains the same.<p>6. Can you give us a 10000-foot view of your architecture and tools, if that&#x27;s okay?<p>7. When you mention <i>personalize the website for each visitor</i>... Is that like ad networks that show relevant ads where you mean to show relevant products? If so, how&#x27;d you gather enough data abt a visitor to be sure of the personalization (acquire&#x2F;gather data from third-parties)? What value do you see that personalization offers? I&#x27;m not being skeptical, just want to hear your point of view on this.<p>Thanks.