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Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?

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Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?

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Post by mattbgates »

adventured wrote: post #27
lornemalvo wrote: post #3

https://strml.net

Very well done, although it starts slow (thought it was going to be just the initial simple text). Like others I had a problem with the page cert (GitHub cert). Going to http://strml.net fixed it on the redirect to https://www.strml.net (which is using a Letsencrypt cert for www.strml.net)

Love that adventured... bit long, but good.

Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?

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Post by majewsky »

owens99 wrote: post #2

Alternative question: really fast and SEO optimized personal sites?

SEO is overrated. Focus on high-quality content that people want to link to.

Case in point: I have a podcast (in German) whose name is a common German phrase ("Gar nicht so einfach", which translates to "Not that easy"). In SERPs for that phrase, the first few results are usually dictionaries, but my podcast's site (https://xyrillian.de/noises/gnse/) usually appears around 7th or 8th place still on the first page. This is without me doing any SEO, and in fact, without keeping up a regular schedule. >_> But the few episodes that there are have been reviewed overwhelmingly positively, and that appears to be all it takes.

Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?

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Post by markosaric »

gwern wrote: post #61
gwern wrote: post #8

This is a question which seems to come up regularly: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... I have a Twitter thread where people have made a number of suggestions ( https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1092221945427517440 ), and my own website is often mentioned - minimalist, fast, pretty, and also with a number of interesting & unus…

Also of interest, since text usually means minimalist: https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html (see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20998256 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17787816 )

Thanks for all the links! I love exploring independent, personal websites (and adding them to my RSS reader).

Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?

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Post by rasikjain »

I did tried different frameworks like gatsby, nextjs, hugo etc and finally settled with hugo static website for its community support and templates. it is minimalist with white background. Hosted on Netlify. working great so far.

Shameless plug: https://www.rasikjain.com

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