Show HN: Stelae – €19.90/year WordPress, exported to static HTML

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Author here. Quick framing for anyone who wants the why before clicking: Stelae is for people who already know WordPress but don't want to run public PHP. WordPress as private editor, static HTML as the public output. €19.90/year, free during beta. Happy to answer questions in the thread.

Interesting idea.

It's kind of a scam, because anyone with an AWS account could do the same thing, for the same cost (and have space for 20+ static websites) ... but not everyone can deal with AWS, nor can everyone edit a website.

It's too bad Wordpress is hot garbage, and I'd never touch (or recommend that even the most tech illiterate person should touch) that garbage fire of an app.

Yeah, I think that's basically right. If you know AWS/S3/CloudFront or Cloudflare Pages or whatever, the raw hosting cost is close to zero. That's not what I'm charging for. It's more the boring workflow around it: give someone a WordPress editor, keep WordPress private, export the static files, handle backups/deploys, and make it one thing instead of a bunch of docs and scripts.

You actually said it yourself in your comment: "not everyone can deal with AWS, nor can everyone edit a website." Stelae is for the second group, the WordPress-editor side, who don't want to run public PHP to publish. The €19.90 isn't margin on the hosting; the hosting is yours, on whatever provider you pick.

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