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Comment by marktangotango | Hacker News Reader

I want a backend service I can call from my statically generated (i.e. jekyll) websites, to implement things like blog comments, analytics, etc.

A true cloud platform where I don't have to mess with admining and provisioning servers and containers. I want to just upload my code and pay for the cycles and bandwidth I use. Aws lambda for http basically.

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I started to take a swing at the comments part a couple years ago with firebase: https://github.com/mimming/firebase-jekyll-comments

That's pretty cool, what's the status? Have you had anyone adopt it? The setup seems a bit complex honestly. But generally, firebases nosql store is a turn off imo.

https://github.com/skx/e-comments/ was my take on that - a disquis-like service that allows static-sites to add comments via javascript inclusion.

webtask.io?

disqus + google analytics?

I don't want disqus ads, nor google analytics referrer spam. Plus uBlock blocks ga, so it doesn't track the 'ghosts' ie technical users that are my target audience who use uBlock at a much larger percentage that the norm.

I'd like to just implement what I need.

Use goaccess on the server? Or cname ganalytics? I usually use g analytics for things that the server does not see and cross reference with goaccess. You cant make a new analytics without ending up in adblock lists anyway.

Also disqus works without ads. There ad system sucks badly anyway i was making 30 cents a day on a website that makes at least 30$ with adsense. Even thought disqus used up even more space.

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