markdownsites
Web and SaaS
site builder
SHOW HN2016
291points
156comments
#70of 2,264 in 2016
Top 4%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
10 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 23 critical, out of 55 comments about the project. Thread score -0.20.
Idea: 5 for, 9 againstExecution: 1 for, 6 againstPerformance: 0 for, 4 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful for quickly getting a basic site up
From 2 comments
This is excellent. There has been a lack of tools to solve this exact problem - wanting to get a basic site up very quickly and cheaply. Previously the best alternative was a…
arikr on HNMaking a modern, responsive, mobile-aware website seems like a huge learning curve right now. It would be great if there was a tool that let you use simple markdown, took a few…
RockyMcNuts on HN
Maker is open to feedback
From 1 comment
I really like your attitude in these comments. Rather than get defensive, you seem to be open to suggestion and not afraid to admit that there may be a better way to do things…
criddell on HN
Objections
Generated sites are needlessly JavaScript-heavy and slow to load
From 2 comments
My major critique is that the generated sites are needlessly javascript powered. Right when I saw the "Loading" I thought oh no how many assets are going to be downloaded... for…
agentgt on HNWhy does it flicker "Loading" before it displays the content? Can't something be cached somewhere to avoid that whenever I click something? Not displaying any change until it's…
corobo on HN
Site lacks HTTPS, a concern given credit card payments
From 1 comment
Awesome project! Anything to get faster deployments out is a great tool. Hate to be 'that guy', but it would be nice if you served this over HTTPS, given that you are accepting…
sgslo on HN
Design is not attractive enough
From 1 comment
Great idea, but the design would have to be significantly more attractive for me to use it for most of the things that would immediately spring to mind. That's a solvable…
thenomad on HN
Market is crowded with existing tools like Pandoc and Jekyll
From 2 comments
Beautiful idea, you are heading in a crowded market and at the moment the app is not too differentiated, I hope you the best.
devsmt on HNThe development time has been severely increased thanks to a poorly choosen and heavy platform. A Minimum Viable Product could be done in a few minutes with pandoc, a popular and…
user5994461 on HN
Requests
Serve over HTTPS and use subdomains per site
From 2 comments
Congrats on the launch! I had an initial thought of coming up with a site like this, but decided that providing an open HTML platform was best (hence, https://neocities.org). But…
kyledrake on HNAwesome project! Anything to get faster deployments out is a great tool. Hate to be 'that guy', but it would be nice if you served this over HTTPS, given that you are accepting…
sgslo on HN
Support for blog-style posts and markdown metadata
From 2 comments
Coming from wordpress to a website that uses markdown for posts I have run into a few problems or inconvenience that I haven't seen addressed. There's a lot of boiler-plate in…
wodenokoto on HNI keep waiting for someone to write a program that consumes as input Markdown text and emits as output a pure HTML/CSS site literally like this…
avn2109 on HN
Fix lingering Loading indicator
From 2 comments
Why does it flicker "Loading" before it displays the content? Can't something be cached somewhere to avoid that whenever I click something? Not displaying any change until it's…
corobo on HNI think it's completely fine to use JavaScript here. It would be nice to have instant page pushes. But it should be rendering the site without a loading indicator. There's no…
zackify on HN
Questions
How to buy and transfer a domain through the service
From 1 comment
I'm interested in that domain part. How can I buy a domain through this thing? Will it own my domain or will I be able to move the domain and use it for different things in the…
fiatjaf on HN
Which DNS extension is unsupported when adding a personal domain
From 1 comment
``` > Extension not supported ``` when trying to add my personal domain. What DNS extension is it trying to use?
falsedan on HN
Alternatives named
Pandoc
From 2 comments
I've used Pandoc. You can generate a HTML fragment, or an HTML file, or HTML with table of contents, CSS, and footer, etc. http://pandoc.org/demos.html It has some pretty heavy…
paulddraper on HNThe development time has been severely increased thanks to a poorly choosen and heavy platform. A Minimum Viable Product could be done in a few minutes with pandoc, a popular and…
user5994461 on HN
Jekyll and Hugo
From 2 comments
Plenty of static site generators, as they're called, exist to do this. Good jumping-off points would be investigating Jekyll (written in Ruby) and Hugo (written in Golang).…
kornish on HNOr just use jekyll. But it seems to purport to be different from jekyll, so I am not sure.
bonzini on HN
Kirby
From 1 comment
Pandoc does this. However I've found that you really quickly run into limits. I prefer a slightly-more-elaborate-but-still-no-database solution like Kirby. Throw it onto any…
roel_v on HN
Neocities
From 1 comment
Congrats on the launch! I had an initial thought of coming up with a site like this, but decided that providing an open HTML platform was best (hence, https://neocities.org). But…
kyledrake on HN
mdwiki
From 1 comment
mdwiki is the best take on this idea I've seen: http://dynalon.github.io/mdwiki/#!index.md
sirtimbly on HN