Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes
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Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes
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#2I have many informational websites like http://www.krister.ee and sometimes I register domains on a whim when I get a really good idea for a website. I decided to create a simple tool to help manage these microsites and in addition to buying a domain I can immediately fill it with demo-content using markdown.
Before I get into feature creep (hero image, forms, analytics) I'd like to work on reaching an audience. Problem is, I'm not sure who would appreciate it. I know it's a useful tool so any tips on how to spread the word is greatly appreciated.
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#3FYI - When you check a site, there is a little blue pop up in the bottom right corner. It is hidden by the green "Online" chat bar.
Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes
#4I have many informational websites like http://www.krister.ee and sometimes I register domains on a whim when I get a really good idea for a website. I decided to create a simple tool to help manage these microsites and in addition to buying a domain I can immediately fill it with demo-content using markdown. Before I get into feature creep (hero image, forms, analytics) I'd like to work on reaching an audience. Prob…
Can you give a quick summary of how it works? Who are you using to host? Didn't see any info in the About section.
Realize you're saying you don't want to add any features but some quick mobile optimization to make the links more readable / clickable on a small screen would go a long way.
Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes
#5I have many informational websites like http://www.krister.ee and sometimes I register domains on a whim when I get a really good idea for a website. I decided to create a simple tool to help manage these microsites and in addition to buying a domain I can immediately fill it with demo-content using markdown. Before I get into feature creep (hero image, forms, analytics) I'd like to work on reaching an audience. Prob…
Can you give a quick summary of how it works? Who are you using to host? Didn't see any info in the About section. Realize you're saying you don't want to add any features but some quick mobile optimization to make the links more readable / clickable on a small screen would go a long way.
Sure.
It's a meteor.js app with React.js at the front. Namecheap to buy domains and Braintree to handle payments. Hosting on Scalingo (awesome service btw). Hmm.. what else.. the chat plugin is tawk.to - be sure to check that out.
I'll be sure to improve the mobile view soon, thanks for the comment!
Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes
#6I have many informational websites like http://www.krister.ee and sometimes I register domains on a whim when I get a really good idea for a website. I decided to create a simple tool to help manage these microsites and in addition to buying a domain I can immediately fill it with demo-content using markdown. Before I get into feature creep (hero image, forms, analytics) I'd like to work on reaching an audience. Prob…
I think there is some overlap with Jekyll.
Personally, Jekyll works better for me atm, as it produces static content, can be hosted for free on github or cheaply on s3 and has a bigger community and backing of github engineering. So perhaps, it's worthwhile to try and figure out jekyll-lite or something like that?
For me setting up jekyll was a pain, I had to get ruby, rubygems, jekyll itself and then a manual config intervention to make it work for me.
If this could be simplified that would be a huge improvement.
Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes
#7FYI - When you check a site, there is a little blue pop up in the bottom right corner. It is hidden by the green "Online" chat bar.
hmm, i'm not sure what blue popup you're talking about. Can you screenshot maybe?
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#8I have many informational websites like http://www.krister.ee and sometimes I register domains on a whim when I get a really good idea for a website. I decided to create a simple tool to help manage these microsites and in addition to buying a domain I can immediately fill it with demo-content using markdown. Before I get into feature creep (hero image, forms, analytics) I'd like to work on reaching an audience. Prob…
I think there is some overlap with Jekyll. Personally, Jekyll works better for me atm, as it produces static content, can be hosted for free on github or cheaply on s3 and has a bigger community and backing of github engineering. So perhaps, it's worthwhile to try and figure out jekyll-lite or something like that? For me setting up jekyll was a pain, I had to get ruby, rubygems, jekyll itself and then a manual config…
I've been working on a Jekyll-like system for fun over the past couple of weeks. I've tried to make it as painless to install as possible, but it does require Python 3.
https://github.com/fredley/mirage
Was planning on doing a Show HN if/when I'd made it a bit more robust. It makes sites that look like this: http://mirage.mamota.net
Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes
#9FYI - When you check a site, there is a little blue pop up in the bottom right corner. It is hidden by the green "Online" chat bar.
hmm, i'm not sure what blue popup you're talking about. Can you screenshot maybe?
It's the thing that tells you to save before you can check the availability of a domain