Synthasite – Techcrunch40 demo pit

by Jeremy Schoemaker on September 22, 2007 · 71 comments

Vinny Lingham was showing off his new pre-beta website Synthasite at Techcrunch40-

Vinny was clear it is still pre-beta but if you want you can get a account now. (only 10,000 available).

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1 Pogung177 September 22, 2007 at 4:29 pm

Who is beside you, she look very sexy :p

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2 Vinny Lingham September 22, 2007 at 4:44 pm

Thanks Jeremy! For the record, the public version of Synthasite differs from the Pre-Beta version in the YouTube video – Jeremy got a sneak preview – we only go live in Beta on the 5th of November!

P.s. Pogung177 – the lady next to Jeremy is my wife and business partner :-)

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3 Theo September 22, 2007 at 5:05 pm

Signed up for Synthasite..
Thanks.

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4 Theo September 22, 2007 at 5:12 pm

Btw,
What’s in the purse?
It’s on every picture.

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5 Word Hugger September 22, 2007 at 5:23 pm

I think thats why shes there. lol

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6 ShoeMoney September 22, 2007 at 5:24 pm

its a techcrunch murse ill have it in my wrap up post next week

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7 ShoeMoney September 22, 2007 at 5:24 pm

I am pretty sure its vinnys wife

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8 Jonathan Volk September 22, 2007 at 6:09 pm

Pretty impressive WYSIWYG type editor.

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9 Nick Sullivan September 22, 2007 at 6:17 pm

I’ll sign up. Doesn’t look that good though.

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10 Kolby Bothe September 22, 2007 at 7:36 pm

Interesting, signed up. This will be cool to watch the development of it.

peace
kolby bothe

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11 Israel September 22, 2007 at 7:42 pm

pretty cool site.

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12 Tracy Robinson September 22, 2007 at 7:46 pm

Thanx for bringing us stuff that we might not have seen, I signed up and piddled with it but unsure of specifics of what exactly I was doing, so now will check out the help files and then try to do a site.

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13 Credit Card Offers September 22, 2007 at 8:20 pm

Its a good site. I just signed up for it. They will have a to grow/ develop it much further to really great popular.

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14 Roger Kabir September 22, 2007 at 10:04 pm

Not really user friendly after the initial stage of starting a new site.

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15 Instant Community September 22, 2007 at 11:33 pm

Nice looking web 2.0 site!

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16 Bulbboy September 22, 2007 at 11:52 pm

Cool name. A possible future replacement for Dreamweaver?

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17 Travel Notebook September 22, 2007 at 11:53 pm

murse? Is that like a manbag?

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18 Travel Notebook September 22, 2007 at 11:54 pm

what does your shirt say?

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19 Kolby Bothe September 23, 2007 at 12:01 am

My Guess:

I’ve been crunched?

Who knows lol…

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20 Joeychgo September 23, 2007 at 12:42 am

Sure could be

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21 Vik Dulat - Making Money the Easy Way September 23, 2007 at 12:30 am

Looks like a very cool idea mate..good luck with it

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22 Word Hugger September 23, 2007 at 12:55 am

oh, figured it was a model after seeing the lineupnewyork post.

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23 Word Hugger September 23, 2007 at 12:56 am

murse = man + purse.

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24 Blog Contests September 23, 2007 at 1:30 am

I like his marketing technique

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25 Pogung177 September 23, 2007 at 4:58 am

If SHE Vinnys wife, He’s lucky guys…lol

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26 Pogung177 September 23, 2007 at 5:03 am

Does your Synthasite only developing for static pages..? Can I develop page for dynamic pages..?

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27 John Loch September 23, 2007 at 5:16 am

Nothing original that I can see (sorry). That said, I like his style. He seems to have an easy, engaging presence.. that always impresses me :)

I’d like to know what his particular value proposition is, why his offering stands out from others. Being in alpha/beta, I’ll bet he has some surprises in line.. where’s the KPOW !

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28 Kanute September 23, 2007 at 5:41 am

Beautiful pictures and application. It seems you had a lot of fun at the TechCrunch conference.

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29 defeedme September 23, 2007 at 7:56 am

how does this compare to Joomla ? probably no comparison.

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30 Free Business Cards September 23, 2007 at 2:11 pm

Well joomla is an open source cms… this seems to be proprietary

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31 Mubin September 23, 2007 at 2:16 pm

I think it says I’ve been minted.

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32 All-UFC.com September 23, 2007 at 3:28 pm

going to check out the site and get on it before everyone else does

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33 mm September 23, 2007 at 3:36 pm

How can a brand new site have a Google rank of 6??

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34 Mubin September 23, 2007 at 4:46 pm

P.s. Pogung177 – the lady next to Jeremy is my wife and business partner :-)

you are my new hero.

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35 Beauty Girl September 23, 2007 at 4:49 pm

It is not a brand new site, is in online since July 2004 and it has a google page rank of 6 due to the 2500 back links.

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36 Rekzai September 23, 2007 at 6:54 pm

I got my account :)

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37 nick September 23, 2007 at 9:07 pm

so what makes this any better than the other ones out there? Including the one Almighty Google has.

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38 ClarkeW September 23, 2007 at 9:58 pm

I just signed up for an account. It looks pretty cool so far, but I’ll have to experiment with it a little more to see everything it has to offer.

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39 Marc Lindsay September 23, 2007 at 10:06 pm

Way to go Jeremy, your blogging is awesome and blogs the crap out of other “make money online blogs” that dont really give a shit if you make money on line or not.

In fact they should be called “how I make money online from you reading my crappy posts”.

You bring a breath of fresh air to the blogging industry.

Regards
Marc

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40 Anna Do Good September 23, 2007 at 10:27 pm

Vinny is a pretty smart guy, but I have seen this for awhile, and the site still does not make sense. What is the point? Where is the monetization? If I can use Synthasite, why would I not use something else. I don’t get it.

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41 CatherineL September 23, 2007 at 10:42 pm

Thanks for this, I’m going to check it out right now.

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42 Seo Next September 24, 2007 at 12:02 am

Only 10,000 then i think i have to do it fast as they r more then 10k readers for this blog.

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43 lyricsreg September 24, 2007 at 12:10 am

True … shoemeony advertising will flood their server

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44 WarriorBlog September 24, 2007 at 12:56 am

Congratulation guys!

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45 3Terabyte September 24, 2007 at 5:20 am

Yeah sure is. Very pretty.

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46 3Terabyte September 24, 2007 at 5:23 am

yeah it is

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47 3Terabyte September 24, 2007 at 5:24 am

cool man…

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48 Pogung177 September 24, 2007 at 5:31 am

hero for what?, I though i just follow you..

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49 Gecko Tales September 24, 2007 at 6:45 am

Man that is a cute girl. I didn’t watch the video yet. I just saw the girl. Is she in the video?

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50 nick September 24, 2007 at 8:39 am

Just signed up. Even for somebody who has been developing for almost 8 years… If you are going to spend the time to use this product, I recommend just learning how to make your own sites from scratch.

Too many people these days are wasting their time learning these other hyped up programs like Dreamweaver and such, when they could spend the same amount of time to learn how to build their own site the real way.

The design, layout, and overall concept is nice. It just needs a little more work. In this case… I have a feeling this site will be relying most on it’s “sexy” 2.0 layout to pull in users.

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51 Modern Worker September 24, 2007 at 8:42 am

Nick, using a “hyped up program like Dreamweaver” is about working smarter, not harder.

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52 starfeeder September 24, 2007 at 10:14 am

“Too many people these days are wasting their time learning these other hyped up programs like Dreamweaver and such, when they could spend the same amount of time to learn how to build their own site the real way.”

I agree, learn HTML first then Dreamweaver….

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53 Blog Contests September 24, 2007 at 10:30 am

Yah we call them manbags

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54 Blog Contests September 24, 2007 at 10:31 am

She is his wife – read above!

Many have made the same mistake :D

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55 Instant Community September 24, 2007 at 10:53 am

Well i totally agree with you starfeeder, learning HTML and XHTML was the right way to do things. Along with this post i think it has great presence.

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56 Luisana September 24, 2007 at 1:10 pm

The girl is definitely a model. I used to get gigs like that, like I would get $150/day and it was pretty hot for me. I was super broke at the time and would get anything!

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57 Modern Worker September 24, 2007 at 4:30 pm

Uhhhhh lol

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58 People Online Counter September 24, 2007 at 5:13 pm

That’s a great idea! So they will host the site and provide the sub domain along with the ease of creating a custom looking site. This does resemble sites like blogger but with more features and tools to create a nice site.

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59 Gecko Tales September 24, 2007 at 5:46 pm

Well he must be a really great guy to land her. I love it when the nice guy gets the girl.

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60 nick September 24, 2007 at 7:45 pm

exactly my point… it’s easier to just learn how to do it by hand. Not only is it smarter, but it’s easier when all is said and done.

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61 Kanute September 25, 2007 at 4:52 am

The TechCrunch conference seem to have populated the Software world with new ideas and applications

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62 Aditya Kumar Singh September 25, 2007 at 9:05 am

Great business idea.

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63 CPA Affiliates September 25, 2007 at 9:31 am

cool deal.. it is always about working smarter not harder.

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64 Blog Contests September 25, 2007 at 10:09 am

I had a play with this and TBH couldn’t see the appeal/ease of use. Sorry dude!

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65 3Terabyte September 26, 2007 at 5:50 am

whats the name of the pretty chik shoe..

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66 Grivon September 26, 2007 at 5:51 am

Wow.. cool site but.. congrats on the 11k+ readership now shoe!! It’s reading 11,012 as of this comment’s date!

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67 Daily Blogger September 27, 2007 at 2:17 pm

Nice job I joined!

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68 Joeychgo September 28, 2007 at 12:35 am

Always pics with the hot girls…. :)

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69 Neil Duckett September 30, 2007 at 3:41 pm

Looks OK to me

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70 damo October 6, 2007 at 5:02 pm

Hey this is Damo , I like what you did with your site and would like some info on how to get traffic to my blog because I have a great blog that people will love to see. I now your a busy guy but please comment on my blog.

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