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

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Post by jedimastert »

Symbiote wrote: post #94
Rabidgremlin wrote: post #89

If you want to roll your own, I have a Docker image that pulls Markdown out of git, runs Hugo over it and pushes the site to an S3 bucket. Also works with Bitbucket pipelines so you can get a site rebuild with a simple git push: https://github.com/rabidgremlin/hugo-s3

Now I feel old. I have a very small server running Apache, with mod_markdown installed. .md files are rendered as HTML by Apache, and there's a CSS file to tweak if I feel like it. https://github.com/hamano/apache-mod-markdown

I had no idea that existed. It had honestly never occurred to me to render markdown in the server

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

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Post by bigge »

arikr wrote: post #30

This is excellent. There has been a lack of tools to solve this exact problem - wanting to get a basic site up very quickly and cheaply. Previously the best alternative was a free Firebase/Google account, and then setting up a HTML/CSS site, and deploying it. This is much faster. Thank you for building it! And please, don't be dissuaded by the other commenters. Sure, the market is much smaller than the market that Sq…

Sounds like you're looking for something similar to what i just released today. It's a service called Idnty and let's you create a simple and clean personal page in no time. No custom domains yet but it's in the pipeline. Please have a look, https://idnty.me

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

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Post by kristerv »

kaishiro wrote: post #82
user5994461 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The development time has been severely increased thanks to a poorly choosen and heavy platform. A Minimum Viable Product could be done in a few minutes with pandoc, a popular and standard tool that supports markdown to html conversation out of the box. Add a few CSS styles and here you go! Awesome looking static pages, with 0 javascript whatsoever, based on proven battle-tested software ;)

Like any MVP, time to market almost solely depends on your knowledge of the tooling. If the OP is familiar with what they've used, then I'm comfortable trusting that it's faster for them instead of having to learn something new.

totally right here.

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

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Post by kristerv »

edw519 wrote: post #85
kristerv wrote: post #55

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yep, i completely agree. The only reason it's JS heavy is because it's a MVP. If this project turns out well it will end up being a simple HTML with bare-minimum javascript.

Thank you for this, kristerv. At first I agreed with many of the other posters, that this just had more overhead than it needed, so I didn't take it seriously. But when I saw this comment, I got it. It's an MVP! You launched it before it was ready, but not before you were ready. Which is exactly what we're supposed to do. Grow a thick skin, share it, and take your lumps. This way, your baby will grow up much faster t…

thank you :)

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

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Post by kristerv »

savanaly wrote: post #73
masukomi wrote: post #65

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... the only reason it's complex is that you didn't have time to do something simple?

I think the quote "If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter" applies.

haha, best quote i've heard in a long time :D

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

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Post by kristerv »

agentgt wrote: post #74
kristerv wrote: post #67

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Even though the site is simple development time has been severely dropped thanks to choosing a fairly heavy platform.

> Even though the site is simple development time has been severely dropped thanks to choosing a fairly heavy platform. I don't think it is because the platform is "heavy" (I assume in productive features) but rather it is what you are probably most recently familiar with. For example I have built similar CMS tools for internal documentation with Java + Postgres (markdown and mustache.java) in less than a day. The de…

you are certainly right about the familiarity. Also some of the ideas proposed here have been very valuable, i'll be sure to check them out.

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

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Post by kristerv »

user5994461 wrote: post #87
kaishiro wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like any MVP, time to market almost solely depends on your knowledge of the tooling. If the OP is familiar with what they've used, then I'm comfortable trusting that it's faster for them instead of having to learn something new.

apt-get install pandoc # convert from markdown to html pandoc -f markdown -t html article.md Just to be clear. Pandoc is a rather trivial command line tool. It's not comparable to learning a framework or a toolset.

nice. thanks for the tip. I'll see how plausible this is for my usecase.

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

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Post by kristerv »

bonzini wrote: post #84
user5994461 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The development time has been severely increased thanks to a poorly choosen and heavy platform. A Minimum Viable Product could be done in a few minutes with pandoc, a popular and standard tool that supports markdown to html conversation out of the box. Add a few CSS styles and here you go! Awesome looking static pages, with 0 javascript whatsoever, based on proven battle-tested software ;)

Or just use jekyll. But it seems to purport to be different from jekyll, so I am not sure.

perhaps I didn't understand what jekyll was capable of. I'm going to have a proper look at all the tech suggested here.

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

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Post by shanecleveland »

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've always thought something like this would be useful if properly narrowed to a particular niche, where creating a simple, informational site quickly and easily is useful (i.e. local restaurant menu). Would likely want to include templating of some kind.

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

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Post by avn2109 »

paulddraper wrote: post #42
agentgt wrote: post #39

My major critique is that the generated sites are needlessly javascript powered. Right when I saw the "Loading" I thought oh no how many assets are going to be downloaded... for just markdown content. I guess I'm just an old web 1.0 guy but I just don't see and understand why everything must be done in a super dynamic way. Hell sometimes I like clicking on a link and watching the browser do the loading as it is confi…

Aw...this makes me so sad. I need to fix my brain. Every time I see "static sites", I think "oh great, no dynamic server or client code, just static HTML/CSS for fast loading". If I'm going to have to undergo a "compile step" for my website, it's going to do something worthwhile, darn it.

I keep waiting for someone to write a program that consumes as input Markdown text and emits as output a pure HTML/CSS site literally like this http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ except with the text from the Markdown file instead of swear words. Maybe it could even accept several Markdown files and make them into blog posts or something.

If nobody else does I guess eventually I'll get fed up and build it myself :\

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