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

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Post by neya »

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+ visitors a month currently. Once we made that move, we realized how horribly slow was Wordpress even on the best hardware thrown at it. Our costs dropped down to 1/10th of what we used to spend as well purely in terms of hardware. I can easily believe that static sites are the future.

I think this space has a lot of room for new players and definitely worth to keep a watch on. All the best. Hope you see success.

Neya

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

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Post by spelunker »

xwdv wrote: post #14
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?

The way it abstracts application logic is by finding out what parts of your site can be immutable functions, then produces all the variations of static content for each possible input.

Very clever!

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

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Post by hombre_fatal »

_liqj wrote: post #18

This costs $20/month, what happens when someone releases an open source version that essentially does the same thing but for free?

Nothing, because people don't flock to self-hosted open source just because it exists. Else Slack/Discord would be dead. Effectively nobody uses their open source competitors because the experience is terrible rather than a service that takes it out of your hands in a nice package.

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

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Post by js2 »

artificial wrote: post #26

I've browsed the site and didn't see how are forms handled?

Bottom of the front page:

> Sitesauce recommends the use of JAMstack-friendly alternatives to this services. For example, you could move your contact forms to StaticKit or your comments to Commento.

> However, there are times where the only option is to rely on your backend. For this, you can configure Sitesauce to proxy certain endpoints to your backend. You can also use this if you need to fetch some data from your backend via AJAX.

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

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Post by jetti »

Let me start off by saying good job on launching. Is there an ability to stop automatic deployments on change and instead allow for manual deployments? Also, I am a bit confused about the hosting. On your landing page you say:

"Sitesauce hosts your static sites on Vercel (formerly ZEIT), offering unlimited bandwidth and their world-class CDN for no additional cost."

Then in your Terms of Service you say:

"You agree that Sitesauce is not responsible for any additional fees charged to your credit card by third-party server providers such as Vercel."

How does the hosting work? Do I sign up with Sitesauce and also sign up for Vercel? If that is the case, would I be able to pick a different host if I wanted? If it isn't the case and Sitesauce handles the backend process of creating an account on Vercel is it paid for by using my credit card and you pass that info to Vercel?

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

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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…

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