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An open-source web hosting platform for static sites

Shown by symkat on Mar 14, 2022. Click the card to turn it over.

217points

38comments

#252of 2,570 in 2022

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7 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.

Idea: 3 for, 2 againstDocs: 2 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against

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Docs and devops diagrams are well done
From 1 comment
- the docs are exquisite: https://github.com/symkat/MarkdownSite/tree/master/devops
  MathMonkeyMan on HN
Interesting idea for self-hosted static sites
From 2 comments
- Sweet, a roll-your-own Geocities but in Markdown! I'd like it if this approach took off for personal websites/blogs/social media. Maybe share it with some of those lists of…
  HeckFeck on HN
- Me too! I think this might be the next Hello World. Goodbye Todo list app.
  throwaway4837 on HN

Hosting static sites on Netlify or GitHub Pages is free and easier
From 2 comments
- It's nice to have the option of deploying static sites to your own server, more-or-less as easily as they can now be deployed to GitHub Pages, Netlify, Vercel, and friends. Funny…
  jaza on HN
- Just curious on when you would use this over GitHub Pages? https://pages.github.com/
  jaimex2 on HN
On-demand rendering makes it less purely static
From 1 comment
- Does this really count as static site hosting if you use on-demand rendering instead of rendering everything? One of the big advantages of static sites is that the runtime…
  account42 on HN
Build logs were publicly visible without authentication
From 1 comment
- Why are other people's logs exposed when I try to make a site? https://markdownsite.com/status/9?reject_job=1
  nwithan8 on HN

WYSIWYG editor for building sites
From 1 comment
- Any plans to add a WYSIWYG editor for building sites? I'm the friend who can run network stuff, but a github repo and markdown is beyond the people I'd run it for.
  ungawatkt on HN
Git hooks or GitHub Actions style integration
From 1 comment
- I think it'd be a great fit to introduce some kind of 'git' hooks that could work just like github actions. Currently, I have a static blog served @ [0] and it is literally a git…
  trevcanhuman on HN
Add an open source license
From 1 comment
- This looks great - please consider adding a Free/Libre Open Source license such as AGPL. Or any license!
  henriquez on HN
Tutorial with a minimal example repo
From 1 comment
- Great work, thank you for sharing this. I see an opportunity for you to create tutorial steps, to teach a developer step-by-step what an input repo should contain in order to…
  jph on HN

Why use this over GitHub Pages
From 1 comment
- Just curious on when you would use this over GitHub Pages? https://pages.github.com/
  jaimex2 on HN
Does only the site/ directory get built
From 2 comments
- Any idea why this repo doesn't work? https://github.com/icosa-gallery/open-brush-docs I can't see anything other than 404's. I tried /resources.html etc EDIT - I think maybe it's…
  andybak on HN
- I believe it only builds anything in the site/ directory. I haven't tested it, but a workaround could be making another repo, and using git submodules to put your docs repo in…
  13hunteo on HN