Show HN: Straw.Page – Extremely simple website builder
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To that end, here's some cool libraries and resources to get you started. What's awesome is that since we are in 2021 this design language can be married with the power of modern web frameworks to make something extraordinary.
https://thesephist.github.io/blocks.css/
it's such great a rejection of all the stale, boring, "clean" UI convention that we're drowning in today.
it's not just nostalgia - it's fun, it's rebellious, it has real character. it shouts "I'm having fun, why shouldn't you?"
I don’t think more modern/clean designs have to be devoid of fun/rebelliousness or lack character (I’m working on a site that IMO intersects both, it’s very much a WIP but feel free to check out [my handle].github.io if you want to see it in its infancy). But it certainly does tend to hew toward the easy.
The only thing I disagree with in your comment is that it necessarily has character. At a certain point the retro design trend will be so commonplace that it’s also hewing easy and a fairly straight shot from “I want brand to be fun”. I hope it doesn’t reach that point though, because I quite like being surprised by the occasional 90s-style graphics.
It doesn't make sense to offer only brutalist themes, but users are given the tools to do so.
Some people have made some cool, weird-looking sites already whilst others have built more clean ones.
Would like an option to pay something and download the html to self host. I did the see the one time signup and custom url.
edit: whoah, the pricing is also incredibly cheap! 18$ a year, most similar services charge tens of dollars a month with similar features