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I heard you like vibe coding so I vibe coded a site where you can vibe code sites.

I had non-technical relatives who needed a really simple website. I could have built it for them in a couple of hours, but instead I spent a few more hours to solve the more general problem.

They want to talk to a technical person to create and make basic updates to a simple landing page.

I know v0, loveable, replit etc all exist, but they still have a learning curve, and then hosting gets expensive. This way they can download the site as a single HTML file and upload it to their oldschool ISP webhosting package.

I was inspired by carrd.co which I used a lot from when it was still html5up all the way through its various iterations. I think constraints can actually be good sometimes, though in this case probably the lack of way to upload images and other assets to integrate might be too much of a limitation.

It's fully vibe-coded using Replit agent (which I bought on a Black Friday special and some extra credits for this month) and also hosted on Replit. I have no idea how scalable it is or how many concurrent users it can serve, or how reliable the vibe coded queue system is, but I guess I might be about to find out.

Let me know what you think

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Cool idea, but you're probably going to get a bunch of phishing sites and other nefarious things hosted here.

It's essentially a blank slate to host any content on your domain, including JS.

See: https://verysmall.site/whycantwehavenicethings

A few people tried to add scam and porn sites, but because it all gets passed through gpt I can mainly rely on openai to reject anything too bad

You can’t rely on OpenAI for moderation. Your site will happily generate a script tag that fetches offensive content from another site and render it. OpenAI won’t know that the remote site has offensive content.

Anyway, just keep an eye on it as you’re essentially running a static web host and someone will always try to ruin it for the rest of us.

I don’t really get it. The examples linked from the homepage are _so_ simple (and so similar) they might as well just be built with one or two templates and a WYSIWYG editor. I don’t get why they need to be vibe-coded at all.

Although maybe the issue is just that you haven’t picked the best examples? The one you linked in a comment with the raining emojis is a way better example that shows the flexibility (and the fun!) of this, I think.

Either way, I’d go with https://mmm.page as an easy and fun page builder before this, but maybe that’s just my own prejudice against vibe coding.

"just use templates and an editor" is simple for us but still a learning curve for the people I wanted to help with this. I was going to recommend carrd, but I think this is even simpler. You can definitely get pretty fancy if you make a lot of edit requests or have a very detailed creation prompt, I will update the linked examples with some more creative stuff people built.

this is a "dropbox moment" - "hey you can just ftp ssh into a server why would you pay for an app tod backup data";

supercool, simple and fast to use ,good job

Let my 9-yo niece loose on this - his first prompt: "I want to show my friends cool fortnite dances". Then he said: "how can I show this to my friends?" I think he's having a lot of fun.

In a utopian future, social media would mean having this over the open Internet instead of a social media garden. It'd be healthier for my kids at least...

Here are some examples of what people have built on it

- https://verysmall.site/smallsite

- https://verysmall.site/rouxtaccess

- https://verysmall.site/toby

> https://verysmall.site/smallsite

This is hilarious! Strong geocities vibes.

vibeocities.com is available!

Interesting vibe code project. I was messing about with something similar recently, but when your page was created, there is always a input at the bottom with a 'regenerate' button

So you can say 'nevermind, make the background darker, and remove the navbar' to make edits. - Made it quite flexible, I dumped the idea though.

The first version was kinda like this and then I figured it would be useful to have some separation for queuing etc (it's all running on a single free deployment machine with Replit at the moment, but in theory I could separate the app, the workers that generate the HTML, and the hosting of the HTML pretty easily now.

Amazing work. My favorite thing to vibe so far has been single-page websites, but none of mine are as fun as yours

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