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Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?

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Re: Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?

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Post by dzhiurgis »

cjbprime wrote: post #3

The easiest way is probably to ignore the laptop, use a web spidering tool to download all of the content, and upload it to a no-code HTML tool like maybe wix.com (which I haven't actually used) and make changes using that. A second option might be to ignore the laptop, use a web spidering tool, and then manually edit the HTML. That would not be very fun. If this is an actual business, yoga studio websites these days…

Sounds like there’s a massive market for tools like wix, squarespace or webflow to just scrape off your site and remake it into one of the many templates using chatgpt.

Surely something like this should already exist.

Re: Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?

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Post by mplewis »

pipeline_peak wrote: post #23
saaaaaam wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious attitude. I’ve always found that the people who have the most “valuable” spare time are the most willing to give some of that to help others - because they understand what true value means - which is nothing at all to do with money and everything to do with connection and community. But yeah, some people value their spare time in dollar amounts, and they’ll never get beyond a hustle and grind “hourly rate” mi…

Touching, have kids, own an house and say that again.

Take it down a notch.

Re: Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?

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Post by jessekv »

pipeline_peak wrote: post #20
boopmaster wrote: post #15

At the risk of sounding rude, you could start by politely declining the request. It's certainly an option. :)

Seriously, if you have no problem doing this in your spare time for free, then your time isn’t really that valuable.

Even good lawyers will work pro bono sometimes.

Most likely at a much higher (real) marginal cost than a salaried software dev.

Re: Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?

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Post by saaaaaam »

jessekv wrote: post #43
pipeline_peak wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously, if you have no problem doing this in your spare time for free, then your time isn’t really that valuable.

Even good lawyers will work pro bono sometimes. Most likely at a much higher (real) marginal cost than a salaried software dev.

In fact most really good lawyers deliberately take pro bono cases to expose them to legal thinking they might not otherwise encounter. Solving problems and applying your expertise to things you wouldn’t normally trip over is a great way to enhance what you are doing day to day.

And that’s why people volunteer to do stuff that might not seem “worth it” - because if you’re an expert in something you can always learn more by looking at it through a different lens.

This, obviously, is aimed at the upstream comment not yours!

Re: Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?

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Post by donclark »

novateg wrote: post #11

Download the website using this tool https://website-downloader.onrender.com/ and start editing. You can use free hosting services like Netlify or Vercel to host the site. The website doesn't have a search presence, so even if you re-build, it doesn't hurt.

Does the website work? If so how? The page never loads for me and I tried FF and Chrome. Thank you in advance.
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