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Ask HN: What is the best way to quickly launch a website?

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Post by mr_coffee »

Hi all, I have some programming experience (mostly with Python) and would like to launch a product quickly to get user feedback, without spending weeks/months learning web frameworks like react, JS, node etc. Don't get me wrong, I am happy to spend the time to learn this, but before I do, I would like to see if I can get some user traction.

All I really need is a basic page that can host data and display a few bar charts and text (ideally in a UX pleasing way).

I thought of a simple Wordpress site, but thought I would ask here in case I am missing something better.

Does anyone have some good recommendation on what might be the best solution?

Thanks

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to quickly launch a website?

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Post by viraptor »

> a basic page that can host data and display a few bar charts and text (ideally in a UX pleasing way).

That sounds like a static site. Unless you need some interaction per user, I'd recommend buying a ready theme, adding the content and uploading that to S3. Ignore WordPress and frameworks unless you really have a need for them.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to quickly launch a website?

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Post by mr_coffee »

viraptor wrote: post #2

> a basic page that can host data and display a few bar charts and text (ideally in a UX pleasing way). That sounds like a static site. Unless you need some interaction per user, I'd recommend buying a ready theme, adding the content and uploading that to S3. Ignore WordPress and frameworks unless you really have a need for them.

Thanks - I had thought of something like that. What do you mean though by buying a ready theme?

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to quickly launch a website?

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Post by swaggyBoatswain »

There's really two main options

- Single static page (netlify as host or similar)

- Wordpress (sitegrounds as host)

If you want premade templates to just modify some images / cut out content, I would use themeforest

Specifically these links

https://themeforest.net/category/marketing/landing-pages?sor...

https://themeforest.net/category/marketing/unbounce-landing-...

Technically all you really want is an email signup link at the end

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to quickly launch a website?

#5

Post by anotheryou »

Honestly: I'd buy a good base design with WYSIWYG builder support.

Something like https://elementor.com/ for wordpress or even go straight for squarespace (not sure how expensive that is though).

I feel like we are finally at a point where you don't have to know CSS anymore for pretty static websites. At my job we are 50% devs, but marketing and design does the website all on their own with some wordpress builder plugin and it's alright.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to quickly launch a website?

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Post by laurentl »

You can try sites such as wix or strikingly which offer a wysiwyg editor and allow you to build your website without knowing the first thing about HTML. Saves you the hassle of hosting your own Wordpress or static pages (although S3 and others work great for that), will allow you to do some basic integration with G Analytics and so forth, and will take you all of 5 minutes to set up.
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