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Ask HN: What platform are you building a niche site on in 2023?

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Re: Ask HN: What platform are you building a niche site on in 2023?

#21

Every once in a while I go through an “I want a website” phase and try something new, but always end up back with Wordpress. Ultimately I wanted to write content and play around with CSS making it look nice, and Wordpress handles that. Many of the other options felt like I was forever tweaking things or upgrading a dependency or something - very much mike the old days of Linux where making the modem work was an achie…

I agree - Wordpress is amply good enough (or overkill...which is still "good enough) for probably >95% of all use cases

Re: Ask HN: What platform are you building a niche site on in 2023?

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Astro + Cloudflare Pages is pretty good. You can start with just a static site, fetch content from anywhere, including Markdown files or an API, and you can provide interactivity in islands. https://astro.build/

Tangent: Man this landing page is hard to read. For the record, I'm a full stack web programmer. What the fuck is an island? "Lazy loading islands" What? "Components only hydrate when they scroll in to view" WHAT? "Need interactive UI? Load individual, non-blocking component islands in parallel." WHAAAT!? "...and live server output (SSR)" SSR = Live Server Output. OOOOOOOkay. 50 acronyms later and I'm way too fatigue…

What kind of full stack technologies do you use? In the JS world at least, these are all defined terms for at least some time now. The only new thing is islands, which is explained on the landing page in the section Introducing Astro Islands.

Sometimes content has terms of art, it is not their fault for assuming that the reader should know what certain common phrases and acronyms are. It's like being on Hacker News and having to have HN, YC and PG spelled out for readers; it's assumed being on HN that readers know what these are.

Re: Ask HN: What platform are you building a niche site on in 2023?

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Localhost. This frees you of all kinds of limitations. The browser becomes a true OS view port with proper security since you control what third party code (if any) is exposed to your user.

What is normally the server instead becomes the actual local application written in any language, though I choose Node and TypeScript for this. You can still have an actual remote web server (optionally plural) though, your app just proxies to them.

Performance dramatically improves because for most of the content and application code network transmission concerns are eliminated. At that point your application code either performs like a native app or your incompetence is fully exposed.

Your website gains the full expressive capabilities of your operating system plus any application running in a shell.

You can still run the site from a vanity domain with your company’s HTTP certificates. Have a subdomain that points to a loopback IP, such as https://local.I-love-my-users.com pointing to 127.0.0.1 and ::1. You will need HTTP certificates bind associate that domain to those IPs and resolves to the same revocation chain as your other HTTPS certificates for your other certificates.

I strongly you recommend you try it before you complain about running your next user facing site from localhost.

Re: Ask HN: What platform are you building a niche site on in 2023?

#24

For custom dev I use Laravel + livewire + postgresql And I'm starting to use Elixir with LiveView in Phoenix more too. For fast websites that need no code I use https://sytscope.com I've used it to build websites and funnels It has almost all features anyone could need: Drag and drop interface, Lots of widgets, Funnels + A/B Testing, Pre made templates, Blocks, Blogging, Membership areas that can be subscribed to, e-…

Same with tall stack, lately though I use filament exclusively for the backend/CMS and just blade and Alpine and live wire on front/public facing.
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