> Files and folders whose name starts with an underscore do not become posts or pages. You can link to or embed them in posts.
So you cannot link to "posts"? Only to files whose names starts with underscore?
Blot turns a folder into a website
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Re: Blot turns a folder into a website
#52I 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
Please increase your pricing transparency. I could not easily figure out the price of your hosted service without having to use a search engine.
Blot[1] (open source software) turns a folder into a website, and blot.im offers a hosted Blot service for $5/mo.
Re: Blot turns a folder into a website
#53Can someone explain this to us 35+ year olds? What am I missing?
Re: Blot turns a folder into a website
#54Can someone explain this to us 35+ year olds? What am I missing?
I'm 48 and I get this (although I prefer Hugo and Github pages).
What part is confusing to you? I'm happy to help.
Re: Blot turns a folder into a website
#55Can someone explain this to us 35+ year olds? What am I missing?
It's like if dropbox automatically exposed your files on the web.
Re: Blot turns a folder into a website
#56Can someone explain this to us 35+ year olds? What am I missing?
Basically you provide the app a folder of files and that app transforms the files into web pages and then (maybe?) serves them.
Re: Blot turns a folder into a website
#57This is pretty much how my website worked back when running Dropbox as a headless service on Linux was “easy” and bloat-free. Glad to see it as a service.
Re: Blot turns a folder into a website
#58I 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
Please increase your pricing transparency. I could not easily figure out the price of your hosted service without having to use a search engine. Blot[1] (open source software) turns a folder into a website, and blot.im offers a hosted Blot service for $5/mo. 1. https://github.com/davidmerfield/blot
To be fair, it's very clearly fronted on the Sign Up form, which has a prominent button in the top right corner. A dedicated Pricing page/section would be nice simply because people often look for it, but it's not like they're trying to be sneaky or use dark patterns.
Re: Blot turns a folder into a website
#59Express application that converts files to HTML with pandoc and serves the results, with a dashboard. The TODO file in the repo[1] is fascinating. 1: https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot/blob/39d9583395c190534...
> The TODO file in the repo[1] is fascinating.
I had no idea!
Re: Blot turns a folder into a website
#60I do a low-tech version[1] of this using tree-1.8.0...