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

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Post by paulddraper »

100001000001001 wrote: post #100
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.

There is server side templating and asynchronously loaded js. Just because it loads quickly and efficiently and without massive js bloat does not mean it isn't useful or dynamic

Set of Markdown files -> set of HTML files just seems so obvious of an approach, I don't see the advantage of anything else.

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

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Post by kristerv »

yatsyk wrote: post #60
kristerv wrote: post #5

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Sure. It's a meteor.js app with React.js at the front. Namecheap to buy domains and Braintree to handle payments. Hosting on Scalingo (awesome service btw). Hmm.. what else.. the chat plugin is tawk.to - be sure to check that out. I'll be sure to improve the mobile view soon, thanks for the comment!

Thank you for technical details! Why do you use braintree but not use namecheap for everything? Avoiding lock-in or some technical reasons?

I can't recall the exact details, but I did try to use as few services as possible. I think the problem was something about how namecheap's pricing model worked. Or was it the site that didn't have a customizeable paying popup. Not sure, tried quite many different services many months ago.

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

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Post by kristerv »

bigge wrote: post #102
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

wow that's awesome.

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

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Post by kristerv »

ne01 wrote: post #83

At SunSed we are working on v3 of our CMS. V3 is very similar (in concept) to what you have built. I believe that there is huge market for tools designed only for developers. Like Weebly but for developers.

interesting, i'll keep an eye out for your release. Incredible UI design btw.

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

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Post by PlugTunin »

jamesgeck0 wrote: post #95
PlugTunin wrote: post #54

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While Jottit is great and representative of yet another cool thing Aaron contributed to the world, it occasionally goes down for days, or even weeks at a time.

Oh, yeah. It's also currently incredibly slow to load for me. I wouldn't recommend that anyone use it at this point. Just pointing out an example of a similar service for comparison. It doesn't do much, but the UI has some serious polish.

Current usability aside, like another poster said, thank you for sharing that, James.

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

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Post by kristerv »

gfodor wrote: post #48
devsmt wrote: post #12

Beautiful idea, you are heading in a crowded market and at the moment the app is not too differentiated, I hope you the best.

what other apps are there like this? i've wanted a "splat some markdown to the internet" app but have never found one.

> splat some markdown to the internet

haha, great tagline I must say :D

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

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Post by ne01 »

kristerv wrote: post #116
ne01 wrote: post #83

At SunSed we are working on v3 of our CMS. V3 is very similar (in concept) to what you have built. I believe that there is huge market for tools designed only for developers. Like Weebly but for developers.

interesting, i'll keep an eye out for your release. Incredible UI design btw.

Thank you! :)

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

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Post by kristerv »

kyledrake wrote: post #86

Congrats on the launch! I had an initial thought of coming up with a site like this, but decided that providing an open HTML platform was best (hence, https://neocities.org ). But I'm happy someone finally scratched the itch. Random thoughts: You're going to want to use subdomains for the sites, otherwise all sites are sharing the same domain security model, and you're going to run into problems when (not if , when )…

incredible response. Thank you for the effort. Quite an eye opener. Like didn't think about subdomains that way - valuable insight. SSL is top3 on my todo list. Currently I charge extra for the domain - seems to be a simple way of doing it. Donations? Wow didn't think that could be so supportive.

I'll be sure to contact you as soon as the need comes again. You seem to be a valuable resource indeed :)

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