Have a fucking website

Post by whattheheckheck » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 1:45 AM UTC

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How do I get a domain name? What is a VPS? What the hell is nginx? How do I write a plain text file in Word? I don't have time for this ...

> How do I write a plain text file in Word? In college I was a TA a course that (among other things) was the first place students would usually encounter C and the CLI. To standardize how things were compiled and run, we would test everything from the assignments on the school's Linux server that everyone had ssh access to. In order to teach the students how to connect to and use it, we'd have a seminar going over th…

Post by kulahan » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 2:23 AM UTC

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Countless hours? Get someone to make you a webpage, they can use Wix or Shopify or something like this. It’s never been easier or cheaper. In the grand scheme of running a business, it’s one of the best effort:return ratios you can find.

He is talking about a website that involves creating and designing individual pages. If each page takes 2-3 hours, including content writing, research, and photographing, you are looking at 15-50 hours for a company site. That's a lot of investment for some people.

Post by alsetmusic » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 4:22 AM UTC

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My first reaction was that it was visually intimidating for a non-computer person. I went through the workflow of the demo and it was pretty easy, but I suspect most people wouldn't make it that far.

Appreciate the feedback. Would you mind highlighting anything in particular? I can take it. My main efforts went into the platform. I admittedly stumbled through the landing pages. Wasn’t sure how far to take it. Most of my designs end up rather simple but I was concerned it wouldn’t attract people. Its terrible if its having the opposite effect lol

Post by alfirous » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 5:07 AM UTC

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techterrier wrote: post #67

Good idea, I did just such a thing myself, deleting all my socials and only posting my photos to my own website: https://dombarker.co.uk/ Was fun to make 'just a website' for a change too.

I run something similar, ish: https://photos.rymc.io/ I still have an account or two elsewhere, but all photos get posted here then linked there with decent open graph previews.

Post by neonstatic » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 5:37 AM UTC

Arainach wrote: post #14

Someone wrote and deleted a comment saying > I don't get it. LLMs are supposed to have 100% bridged this gap from "normie" to "DIY website." What's missing? This is an all too common thought process among technologists, so: Where to even start? Well, let's start that every single "AI" company is massively overhyping everything to try to avoid any unfortunate realizations about the emperor's clothes regarding their Ca…