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Ask HN: If you would launch a website in 4 hours, what would it be?

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Re: Ask HN: If you would launch a website in 4 hours, what would it be?

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Post by t0 »

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #10
t0 wrote: post #9

I just launched one yesterday for a small business. I'll probably launch another today. If it takes you more than 4 hours to ship, you've probably made it too complicated and you'll never finish it. I usually even go as far as setting up a website. Here's a coupon for a $0.99 domain name ( http://www.networksolutions.com/domain-name-registration/PS-... ), and here's some $1/month web hosting ( http://www.lowendbox.co…

Stupid Q: But are there any "gotchas" with a $.99 domain? Seems too good to be true.

Only two small issues I noticed were you can't change the whois data, and the 2nd year would cost $39. You can turn off autorenewal and transfer it in a year though.

I just tried it.. not too good to be true! They even give you complex DNS zones and setup was near instant.

Re: Ask HN: If you would launch a website in 4 hours, what would it be?

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Post by wcchandler »

I spend too much time procrastinating... so I'd like it if I could speed up my "stupid" time.

I'd build a site that has the design of pinterest/instagram or whatever the site is that has the multi-columns of different heights for individual cells.

And the content would simply be from various RSS feeds -- npr, cnn, fox news, times, huff po, etc. Ideally I'd bring it to a level similar to HN, Reddit and Digg with the only difference being the content isn't user generated and you can't "vote" on a story's popularity -- it's timely.

Add the necessary ajax elements so it "stacks" stories on the top of the scaffolds. I should be able to sit on that page and not do a thing and have fresh content load for me.

Then if there's any interest you could easily add more features.

I'd probably write it one day if I weren't so distracted by other things. Shouldn't take much longer than 4 hours to code.

Re: Ask HN: If you would launch a website in 4 hours, what would it be?

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Post by fjw »

a5seo wrote: post #14

A blog where my 6 yr old daughter can review toys. She's been asking for this for a few weeks.

Have you thought about just using Wordpress? You can be the admin and then make a contributor account for your daughter to write random things but not have the power to publish them or change up any of the settings/design.
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