Hacker News Reader

I hate to be that guy, but why do i have to use amazon? Why can't i compile this locally and push it up to github and just host in there, if its a static site?

View on HN

You don't have to use Amazon, you can use one of the other 800 non-amazon specific static site generators that exist instead of this one. The fact that a tool doesn't accomplish the particular workflow that you would like doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.

I dont think meesterdude was implying DodgerCMS shouldn't exist. And I think the question of if it could support GH Pages is not a bad one, in fact I would rather host for free on GH than Amazon as well.

But the whole point is that by reducing the number of choices, that it becomes simpler to start. It's even in the docs:

Q: Why did you make this? A: I wanted to see if it was feasible to use S3 as a CMS, and I like working on projects like this for fun.

So the author wasn't trying to create a static site CMS (there are LOTS of those already), but something different and maybe simpler.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com