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Re: Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end

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Post by grafs50 » Sat, May 02, 2020, 12:02 AM UTC

temporama1 wrote: post #25

ollerac wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you mean extremely impressive for any solo founder, period.

I think you mean extremely impressive for any human, period.

Making it even more impressive for someone who is all 3 ;)

Re: Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end

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Post by tiborsaas » Sat, May 02, 2020, 12:34 AM UTC

hnal943 wrote: post #2

...any backend that is a content-heavy website? Or are they somehow also abstracting away the application logic? How is this different from a CDN cache?

I was about to post the same question, it's a very similar, but it seems more complicated than just going with CloudFlare. I think they are pretty close in performance boost, but I wouldn't place my bets yet :)

Re: Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end

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Post by lihaciudaniel » Sat, May 02, 2020, 1:45 AM UTC

Because of losing my backups of my WordPress website this is a great solution I can just have a static website for my clients

Re: Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end

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Post by zapt02 » Sat, May 02, 2020, 2:35 AM UTC

neya wrote: post #23

I love this site. It's truly impressive for any solo founder, regardless of the age, let along an 18 year old. Yeah, you kind of rely on the generosity of your vendor (Vercel, in this case), but that's really the only option if you want to keep costs low. I hated Wordpress so much so that I wrote my own CMS + static site generator using a different approach and used it for clients who run sites with 3 million+ visito…

This is a cute story, but what was -actual- the cost (time, monetary and opportunity) in building your own CMS instead of applying basic performance tweaks to an off the shelf system?

Re: Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end

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Post by abinaya_rl » Sat, May 02, 2020, 3:13 AM UTC

This is looking great, I'm wondering if you folks can support webflow.com exports?

Re: Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end

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Post by kfk » Sat, May 02, 2020, 4:58 AM UTC

zapt02 wrote: post #44

neya wrote: post #23

I love this site. It's truly impressive for any solo founder, regardless of the age, let along an 18 year old. Yeah, you kind of rely on the generosity of your vendor (Vercel, in this case), but that's really the only option if you want to keep costs low. I hated Wordpress so much so that I wrote my own CMS + static site generator using a different approach and used it for clients who run sites with 3 million+ visito…

This is a cute story, but what was -actual- the cost (time, monetary and opportunity) in building your own CMS instead of applying basic performance tweaks to an off the shelf system?

Well I had to do our corporate team site and got so frustrated with SharePoint that I coded a script in python to generate the html from rst files. It was a couple of days of work. It runs behind nginx and automatically updated on GitHub commit of new content. Bootstrap is very well documented and you can use rst directives for “widgets”. I am in the process of moving to markdown + yaml now to make writing content even easier.

Re: Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end

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Post by oefrha » Sat, May 02, 2020, 5:54 AM UTC

Landing page feedback: the backend that keeps changing (“like X-powered websites”) could cause the whole page to jump. This is very annoying on narrow viewports (e.g. mobile), especially when I’m reading text, for instance the FAQ.

Re: Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end

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Post by maddydugar » Sat, May 02, 2020, 6:15 AM UTC

grafs50 wrote: post #41

temporama1 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you mean extremely impressive for any human, period.

Making it even more impressive for someone who is all 3 ;)

Making it even more impressive, that he has already contributed to 500 open-source projects! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/m1guelpf

Re: Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end

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Post by dewey » Sat, May 02, 2020, 6:37 AM UTC

kfk wrote: post #46

zapt02 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a cute story, but what was -actual- the cost (time, monetary and opportunity) in building your own CMS instead of applying basic performance tweaks to an off the shelf system?

Well I had to do our corporate team site and got so frustrated with SharePoint that I coded a script in python to generate the html from rst files. It was a couple of days of work. It runs behind nginx and automatically updated on GitHub commit of new content. Bootstrap is very well documented and you can use rst directives for “widgets”. I am in the process of moving to markdown + yaml now to make writing content ev…

Why not just use any other static site generator like Hugo instead of re-inventing it?

Re: Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end

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Post by molszanski » Sat, May 02, 2020, 8:09 AM UTC

neya wrote: post #23

I love this site. It's truly impressive for any solo founder, regardless of the age, let along an 18 year old. Yeah, you kind of rely on the generosity of your vendor (Vercel, in this case), but that's really the only option if you want to keep costs low. I hated Wordpress so much so that I wrote my own CMS + static site generator using a different approach and used it for clients who run sites with 3 million+ visito…

Emm.. doesn’t proxy cache give like the same result?