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Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by 1mbsite »

sanderjd wrote: post #40
joshmn wrote: post #12

I don't know why everyone is being so negative in the comments so far. It's really discouraging to other people who want to share something they made. It makes me sad. OP: This is cool. It's not meant to replace Netlify or GH Pages or a million other things, and I understand that. Some people just want to make something and you made something. You've done more than so many people here by just releasing something and…

I wouldn't mind if you pasted this at the top of every Show HN. On the other hand, sometimes it's useful to point out similar things that exist. Maybe the author actually didn't know about those things and would like to! Criticism always requires walking a fine line being constructive or being discouraging. It's even harder with strangers whose intentions and motivations you don't know!

I don’t mind when people bring up these arguments I’m here for a healthy discussion and to let everybody know that 1MB will help you get your site online fast.

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by 1mbsite »

52-6F-62 wrote: post #39
1mbsite wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like there’s a lot of tools out there to simplify web development but none that do it how I wanted them to. I don’t want a drag-and-drop builder and I don’t want a command line only interface (although we offer one - the key is choices). I want to be able to easily code right inside my browser.

> I feel like there’s a lot of tools out there to [...] but none that do it how I wanted them to. That’s as good a reason as any. Similar reasons to that are why there have been some large changes in the way people use computers at all. Nice work and good luck

Thank you! :)

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by badsectoracula »

jszymborski wrote: post #26

Things I love about this: I would have given my left ear to have a similar service growing up. There were a billion "free hosting" sites that let you throw PHP scripts up on them, and "free mysql" hosts that let you have a couple of free tables of X rows, which give a 12yo an incredible head start when it came to web-dev. The downside is that those sites were trying to push scuzzy gambling sites or were soft targets…

I think neocities.org is closer to what you describe in your first paragraph (and is also ad free and clean).

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by mlthoughts2018 »

joshmn wrote: post #12

I don't know why everyone is being so negative in the comments so far. It's really discouraging to other people who want to share something they made. It makes me sad. OP: This is cool. It's not meant to replace Netlify or GH Pages or a million other things, and I understand that. Some people just want to make something and you made something. You've done more than so many people here by just releasing something and…

I agree with your points, but can you link to the specific comments on this HN post that you think were made as disingenuous criticisms? I read through all the comments just now, and none of them seem to have any degree of antagonism or unfairness at all, not even the ones that (quite respectfully & dispassionately) ask to know how it is different than possible alternatives (and the 1mb creator does a nice job replying to them too).

The comments here all look quite reasonable & polite. Maybe I am missing something? I can’t see any comment that warrants you to have posted this here (though, again, I agree with all your points).

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by badsectoracula »

Why is it called 1MB? Is it a reference to the maximum storage you get? It'd be interesting for size optimized sites.

Also are the sites supposed to look that big? https://i.imgur.com/QIRNATC.jpg (sorry for shitty photo quality, my phone is ancient... i took a photo instead of a screenshot to show how big it looks physically)

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by dovyski »

mrweasel wrote: post #31
1mbsite wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would that Git implementation look to you?

I think most would expect to just have a remote Git repo where you can push your site to. That would then do a checkout on the web server automatically.

Precisely this! 1MB is perfect for a small "hosting" company putting other small companies online, e.g. John's bakery. A git deploy functionality would drastically improve automation to manage websites. I know the provided cli can do it, but it's a other thing to integrate.

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by TheRealPomax »

IgorPartola wrote: post #2

Looks sweet. I might actually use this. A few questions: 1. Why a custom JS-based CLI tool for deployment? What does it do? Why not something like plain SSH? 2. What is the plan for this? Presumably you'll want to monetize the project? Will you ever add ads to my sites? Or will you offer premium features? 3. What's the reason for the NoSQL DB? 4. Your CLI tool only allows .png files as images. Is there a reason you d…

Dude, if I just want to put a page online, the last thing I want to have to deal with is SSH...

Have browser, will content.

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