Material - Portfolio hosting for creatives and designers

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Hey guys, this is and I's startup, Material. We're a portfolio hosting platform for creatives and we're proud to launch right here on Product Hunt. :) We also made two coupons for you guys if you choose to try us out! One that gives you 25% off for the first year of Material, the code "producthunt", or one that gives you the first month free, "productmonth"! I'm probably heading to bed, but will be awake and will happily answer some questions :)
Why would I choose this over SquareSpace? No obvious difference or additional benefit on your homepage.
Hey Mark! We're not directly Squarespace competitors as we focus completely providing simple solution for creating and hosting your portfolio site.
I agree. So far I don't see enough of a differentiation either.
Squarespace is more of a personal website generator. We specialize in making it very easy for a creative to push their content to a prebuilt, beautiful website with very little excess frill. We do give users the power to customize their website, but we in itself aren't a website builder.
No sample portfolio?
Here's a little sample I put up for you guys:
Seems like has this space covered pretty well? any differentiators? Also, the logo mark seems like rehash of slack's hashtag
it's always good to have competition :), but our service does provide a few differences that we're beginning to roll out - including free domain names with purchases, personalized analytics, and import/share with Dribbble and Behance.
The other 2 competitors I know of are Format and Semplice, which both seem to have great followings.
Semplice is not a competior because it's only for self-hosted wordpress sites