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Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

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Post by kristerv »

xchaotic wrote: post #6
kristerv wrote: post #2

I 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…

yeah Jekyll is really good for what it does. I think markdownsites offers something that jekyll doesn't - almost non-existent setup worries.

Also one of my goals is that my non-coder friends could get their websites up with little effort. So Jekyll is great, but for IT savvy people.

Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

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Post by notahacker »

kristerv wrote: post #2

I 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…

Your target market is somebody that wants to create lots of minimalist websites quickly. (those creating one personal website whose priority is getting things done likely skip the "evaluate best alternatives" step and go straight to Tumblr/Wordpress or their favourite social network.)

Unfortunately, apart from polymaths that just want to share their expertise on as many discrete subjects as possible which I'm not convinced is the biggest target market, it's probably blogspammers and astroturfers...

Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

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Post by devoply »

xchaotic wrote: post #6
kristerv wrote: post #2

I 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 personally use Hugo, written in Go rather than Ruby, Jekyll eats up CPU in a very weird way when you run it as a server, don't like my lap on fire after I fire it up. Also love Mkdocs, for static doc creation.

Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

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Post by milge »

I run uBlock and got a message saying the site is down. Disabled it and got it to work.

I think one way to differentiate yourself in this kinda area is making it run without any backend tech like jekyll, python, etc. Make it run client-side only. Just my 2 cents.

Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

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Post by blunte »

kristerv wrote: post #2

I 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…

My first thought was Github Pages + Jekyll + a Jekyll template. And then it's been wrapped in a script that has the domain name bonus.

Not saying what you're doing isn't a good idea; I'm just not quite sure where the big distinction (and attraction) is. Is it that the process is more shrink-wrapped?

Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

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Post by wodenokoto »

Coming from wordpress to a website that uses markdown for posts I have run into a few problems or inconvenience that I haven't seen addressed.

There's a lot of boiler-plate in markdown posts. Author, date, etc. Wordpress does all this for you.

My editor doesn't know which categories, authors or tags already exists. I can't remember if I use the category "car" or "cars".

I haven't found a nice way of handling inline images.

Re: Show HN: Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes

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Post by ryanSrich »

wodenokoto wrote: post #18

Coming from wordpress to a website that uses markdown for posts I have run into a few problems or inconvenience that I haven't seen addressed. There's a lot of boiler-plate in markdown posts. Author, date, etc. Wordpress does all this for you. My editor doesn't know which categories, authors or tags already exists. I can't remember if I use the category "car" or "cars". I haven't found a nice way of handling inline i…

That's not a markdown problem. Its a consequence of using markdown within a framework, generator, etc that uses frontmatter or an equivalent to define meta data.

Several frameworks and tools allow for markdown and static site rendering that also support an admin UI where one can define this data more easily.

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