Harp
Infrastructure
hosting platform
SHOW HN2013
How HN took it
2 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 5 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Privacy: 1 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Looks good and useful to run on own hosting
From 2 comments
Looks good. Wish it wasn't tied to Dropbox though. I'd almost definitely use it if I could work out of my own WebDAV server.
Touche on HNWell, good news for you, you can run the harp server on your own hosting! However, at that point I would just use the static site generator that I am accustomed to (Wintersmith).
woah on HN
Congratulations on launch
From 1 comment
Congrats!
mcantelon on HN
Objections
Requests full read and modify Dropbox permissions, which is a privacy risk
From 2 comments
I really, really would love to give this a try but am totally turned off by the requested "read and modify everything" Dropbox permissions. Although the Harp application does a…
cookrn on HNSame here. Have a new project I'm starting next week that this would be perfect with -- a small site with several collaborators that's not worthy of a full CMS, and everyone…
silverlight on HN
Product positioning is unclear, mixing CLI, static site generator and hosted platform
From 1 comment
I still think that the harp product (brand?) is all over the place. From what I've seen, harp is all of these things: - A command line utility for creating a…
taylorlapeyre on HN
Tied to Dropbox; no WebDAV or other sync support
From 1 comment
Looks good. Wish it wasn't tied to Dropbox though. I'd almost definitely use it if I could work out of my own WebDAV server.
Touche on HN
Build step on the server adds needless complexity
From 2 comments
Why do the build process (preprocessing) on the server?
coderzach on HNNot really, they still have to have node, npm, and the harp cli installed to use it locally. And if you're going through the work of doing all that, why not just do the build…
coderzach on HN
Requests
Narrow Dropbox permissions or use a sandboxed folder
From 2 comments
I really, really would love to give this a try but am totally turned off by the requested "read and modify everything" Dropbox permissions. Although the Harp application does a…
cookrn on HNSame here. Have a new project I'm starting next week that this would be perfect with -- a small site with several collaborators that's not worthy of a full CMS, and everyone…
silverlight on HN
Support for other sync backends such as WebDAV
From 1 comment
Looks good. Wish it wasn't tied to Dropbox though. I'd almost definitely use it if I could work out of my own WebDAV server.
Touche on HN
Mention the sandbox workaround on the Dropbox denial warning page
From 1 comment
What you've built looks great and I totally understand your rationale. It was just _scary_ to see that pop up. Did not think of the method described by @fjabre's comment and its…
cookrn on HN
Questions
Why run the build step on the server
From 1 comment
Why do the build process (preprocessing) on the server?
coderzach on HN
Can a second Dropbox account be used to limit access
From 1 comment
maybe I'm missing something but why not just signup for another dropbox account and use that one for this instead?
fjabre on HN
Alternatives named
Jekyll
From 1 comment
I still think that the harp product (brand?) is all over the place. From what I've seen, harp is all of these things: - A command line utility for creating a…
taylorlapeyre on HN
Wintersmith
From 1 comment
Well, good news for you, you can run the harp server on your own hosting! However, at that point I would just use the static site generator that I am accustomed to (Wintersmith).
woah on HN
Wordpress hosted and self-hosted
From 1 comment
It's mainly between HarpJS.com and harp.io, where on HarpJS there's a command line utility that works like a static site generator, and on harp.io it's hosted. I think it works…
krrishd on HN