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

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Post by bigge »

wingerlang wrote: post #139
bigge wrote: post #102

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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

Really cool. I don't want to create an account just to try it out though, maybe letting users play around until they are satisfied would give a better sign up conversion rate? (Although the video itself is great). Just a thought, not sure if good or viable. But maybe let users buy their designs for self-hosting would be an idea.

Thanks for some really good feedback! Your idea about signup after trying it out is spot on. I will probably implement that straight away. Self-hosting is interesting as well, never thought of that, but might be an alternative way to go.

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

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Post by sirtimbly »

paulddraper wrote: post #123
avn2109 wrote: post #110

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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…

I've used Pandoc. You can generate a HTML fragment, or an HTML file, or HTML with table of contents, CSS, and footer, etc. http://pandoc.org/demos.html It has some pretty heavy dependencies, but so far I haven't found anything better for generating a true static site from Markdown. I probably haven't looked hard enough either.

The only thing more fragile and hard to setup than a static site generator is probably pandoc. All of these are terrible Yak Shaving opportunities. Yet, I still do it.

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

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Post by avn2109 »

hawski wrote: post #148
avn2109 wrote: post #110

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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…

I found something exactly like it: https://github.com/alexanderteinum/simple-website/ Example: https://alexanderteinum.github.io/ Lately I was searching for static site generator that would require no configuration. It is written in single file of straightforward go. It gives you just two sections: posts and pages.

This is pretty much what I have in mind. Awesome :)

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

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Post by branchly2 »

sirtimbly wrote: post #152
paulddraper wrote: post #123

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I've used Pandoc. You can generate a HTML fragment, or an HTML file, or HTML with table of contents, CSS, and footer, etc. http://pandoc.org/demos.html It has some pretty heavy dependencies, but so far I haven't found anything better for generating a true static site from Markdown. I probably haven't looked hard enough either.

The only thing more fragile and hard to setup than a static site generator is probably pandoc. All of these are terrible Yak Shaving opportunities. Yet, I still do it.

The Pandoc site appears to provide binary downloads for the major platforms. Myself, I just always do `apt install pandoc`.

Pandoc is written in Haskell, but when built it's just a regular binary.

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

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Post by mholmes680 »

kristerv wrote: post #44
mholmes680 wrote: post #13

just a heads up, the site was marked by my company's net filter as containing malware.

interesting. Do you know where your company get's its filter data from? I wouldn't be surprised if this domain was used dor something else before.

openDNS malware

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

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Post by marttt »

kaishiro wrote: post #90
user5994461 wrote: post #87

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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.

But that's exactly my point. The presumption is that he didn't learn a new framework or toolset - he already knew it.

There's also a nice API solution for Pandoc -> html/epub/etc conversion: http://www.docverter.com

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

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Post by dirkk0 »

avn2109 wrote: post #110
paulddraper wrote: post #42

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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…

Here you go. I use this to create my personal website. https://github.com/dirkk0/microCMS
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