I'm pretty hyped at where the current website build is at right now. There's a lot going on in the background, with a custom admin pannel for myself to review submissions, provide portfolio reviews that are sent to the users email, to edit and then push to the front end, as well as analytics, and today I finally enabled lighting payments that are routed right to my node.
This has been something that I've been wanting to build for myself for a few years, but just never had the budget or ability to do it myself. I remember asking a web dev team about the project, and they really liked what I was doing, but they quoted me $26k to build everything. I made this at a fraction, and I own all of my code.
It would be really great to get some user tests and also get some feedback on how things work.
This would be the worlds first photography publicaton that accepts bitcoin, as far as I know. NOICE Magazine has been around for a decade now, and it has quite the notoriety in the photo realm. This means a lot to me, and I can't wait to keep building it. Feedback and open criticism is welcome.
Leave a note in your submission as well if you pay in btc, and I'll happily send it back. Just let me know, thank you
https://v0-noice-magazine.vercel.app/
On a quick 15 second look, it works really well. You've got clean, functional dynamic code. I tested the margins for multiple sizes. I liked the menu where I could change the image sizes because when I big the mismatch of image sizes disturbed me a bit as a viewer. Making them smaller fit my personal preference. Good contrast for high image perception. I also liked that you had navigation that was easy to use between your pages getting back to the home spot. The font and detail for reading is a bit small if someone was visually-challenged, but you provide a font option to fix that too which was a nice plus. I would be able to tell the site is named NOICE from your logo, but I could figure it out from the web address. Overall, very well done and you saved serious moola. Good job.
Cheers!! I'm glad those functions came in handy.
Congratulations! Hopefully this becomes a viable source of passive income
Thank you!
the site's beautiful, nice work
Thank uuu
The real opportunity now is in the testing phase. The more user feedback you gather early on the stronger the final product becomes. Consider focusing on a diverse range of testers from casual readers to photographers submitting work to investors interested in the Bitcoin angle. This will give you insights into both usability and market appeal.
Absolutely. Sharing it here gave me some insights!
This is a really beautiful site. I especially like the dark mode toggle with multiple themes.
One comment I have is that I wonder if you should make the image thumbnails all the same size (crop them to a square or rectangle), but then open a modal to display the photo in its true dimensions. This would allow a visitor to browse the homepage gallery without having to navigate back to it from the photographer's page after each click, but they can still continue to the artist's profile from the expanded photo.
Thanks Daniel, I appreciate that a lot!
I want to stay away from cropping any images. Hard rule for me.
Not too sure what you mean by "but they can still continue to the artist's profile from the expanded photo"? Could you expand a bit more? curious
Understood on the first point. My suggestion was for the user flow to go from the homepage grid to a modal gallery with the enlarged image, where the viewer can explore the artist's work without leaving the homepage. This gives the user the option to exit out of the modal to browse other photographers, or continue on to the photographer's page via a link from the modal gallery.
Great idea. Will look into implementing this some way
First pass: I like it a lot. Last draft I saw on desktop, and this time I was on mobile. Very nice indeed.
I'm not a photographer, but I'm happy to run through a submission test if that is useful to you.
Woooo very cool, thank you. Mobile came around quite a bit since you last saw.
And absoutely, send it! You should receive an email notification on successful submission payment
Great site and amazing pics
Looks like a typo maybe happened?
Huge, thank you. Removed, good looks
It seems like pinterest from first seen.
Meh kind of. I haven't even thought of pintrest in a long time. Nor do I use it
Added a new section.
Doing my part
https://v0-noice-magazine.vercel.app/on-value