Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#1

Post by jw2013 » Sun, May 04, 2014, 4:17 AM UTC

Kick start the first Idea Sunday of May.

(PLEASE upvote if you like this post to be seen by more people, as someone in the previous Idea Sunday mentioned the post with less points than number of comments will be penalized in ranking. Thanks.)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#2

Post by mjnaus » Sun, May 04, 2014, 4:40 AM UTC

A service combining the flexibility and ease of use of a CMS site (Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc) with the speed and security of a static HTML site.

The CMS version would be a private site (not accessible by the general public) which is compiled into a static HTML site which is publicly accessible.

There should be a way to deal with formerly dynamic elements, such as contact/comment forms, site search, etc. (possibly using third party APIs)

There also should be a way to deal with updates to the CMS version of the site, so that these changes are detected, compiled and processed into the static version of the site.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#3

Post by karangoeluw » Sun, May 04, 2014, 4:49 AM UTC

You're early for a Sunday.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#4

Post by doubt_me » Sun, May 04, 2014, 4:50 AM UTC

Hacker news 2.0

An actual tech news column with reporters and a sleek website and or maybe a podcast here and there

I mean seriously why hasn't that happened yet

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#5

Post by suhastech » Sun, May 04, 2014, 4:58 AM UTC

karangoeluw wrote: post #3

You're early for a Sunday.

Unless you're in the east

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#6

Post by icebraining » Sun, May 04, 2014, 4:58 AM UTC

karangoeluw wrote: post #3

You're early for a Sunday.

Nope, it's been almost five hours since 00:00 UTC :)

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#7

Post by zercool » Sun, May 04, 2014, 5:04 AM UTC

A site with free, open, community driven practice problems and solutions. Sort of like a wikipedia for questions. I could imagine this being a key ingredient in the future of OER. Would be cool to see something like this integrated with http://metacademy.org

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#8

Post by johnbender » Sun, May 04, 2014, 5:06 AM UTC

mjnaus wrote: post #2

A service combining the flexibility and ease of use of a CMS site (Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc) with the speed and security of a static HTML site. The CMS version would be a private site (not accessible by the general public) which is compiled into a static HTML site which is publicly accessible. There should be a way to deal with formerly dynamic elements, such as contact/comment forms, site search, etc. (possibl…

I'm not sure if this fits all your needs but there seems to be at least some meaningful overlap:

http://developmentseed.org/blog/2012/june/25/prose-a-content...

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#9

Post by ilyanep » Sun, May 04, 2014, 5:09 AM UTC

mjnaus wrote: post #2

A service combining the flexibility and ease of use of a CMS site (Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc) with the speed and security of a static HTML site. The CMS version would be a private site (not accessible by the general public) which is compiled into a static HTML site which is publicly accessible. There should be a way to deal with formerly dynamic elements, such as contact/comment forms, site search, etc. (possibl…

This might also be similar to what you're looking for? http://jekyllrb.com/

EDIT: Oh sorry, I didn't realize that Prose was based on Jekyll! I guess this suggestion is a bit redundant, but this way you don't need Github if you have your own server, I guess.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

#10

Post by gamegoblin » Sun, May 04, 2014, 5:09 AM UTC

mjnaus wrote: post #2

A service combining the flexibility and ease of use of a CMS site (Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc) with the speed and security of a static HTML site. The CMS version would be a private site (not accessible by the general public) which is compiled into a static HTML site which is publicly accessible. There should be a way to deal with formerly dynamic elements, such as contact/comment forms, site search, etc. (possibl…

I'm currently working on a Haskell web framework that allows one to easily define all of the possible values dynamic content can take, generate all permutations of content (assuming the values are finite), and load them all into an in-memory cache to be fired off, pre-baked. Inspired by the idea of a pure function -- that is, a function that is given the same arguments should always return the same result (and have no side effects).

More general than a CMS, but the idea is similar.