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I announced Blot on Hacker News almost 10 years ago. Thank you all for helping to get it started. It was a nice surprise to see it posted again here today. The goal of Blot is to bring the benefits of the static site generator to people who haven't heard of static site generators
I wanted to look into the developer guide to customizing a template. It's to add RTL support for Arabic content.
This give me error tho https://blot.im/developers
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Did you think it would sign you up without confirmation or something? It seems strange to me to not want to hit sign up to see how much it would cost.
HubSpot popularized collecting emails before providing pricing. A lesson from corporate sales in other industries. (Urgh)
We've come full circle
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How do you want to serve pages without an http[s] server ?
The next innovation I expect to see on HN is a service that, on a set schedule, gathers articles about a set of topics that you follow, prints them out onto paper, and delivers them to you as a bound volume for easy perusal. This has a number of advantages for privacy (there's no way for the publishers to know how much time you spent reading each story), offline-first availability (dead-tree is the ultimate), and sha…
You joke, but this would be great, and something that every digital solution has failed at replicating so far.
The best we have are newsletters (each from a different site/author) which clutter up my inbox and make me not want to read them. A printed weekly digest of everything (preferably with the comment threads included) would be a great way to spend a weekend.
I’ve been a happy blot user for a while now. Thanks for building this. Also, my website is https://independentlypoor.com/
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The next innovation I expect to see on HN is a service that, on a set schedule, gathers articles about a set of topics that you follow, prints them out onto paper, and delivers them to you as a bound volume for easy perusal. This has a number of advantages for privacy (there's no way for the publishers to know how much time you spent reading each story), offline-first availability (dead-tree is the ultimate), and sha…
You are joking, but I honestly would like it to get a personalized weekly collection of articles, a wiki lemma, a comic or two and some reviews delivered as PDF or on paper. The crux being that it's personalized. It could use my Pocket, RSS reader, reddit/hn voting habits, even my bookmarks db as inspiration. I don't know or care, as long as it manages to deliver me a week's worth every week. Filled with content that…
How does this compare to Zrok's integrated server? I've been very impressed with zrok even though I haven't done anything with it in production yet.
I announced Blot on Hacker News almost 10 years ago. Thank you all for helping to get it started. It was a nice surprise to see it posted again here today. The goal of Blot is to bring the benefits of the static site generator to people who haven't heard of static site generators
Can someone explain this to us 35+ year olds? What am I missing?
