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Awesome, very addicting! Love how smooth it works.

I think I would have liked to have one free guide. Then I can make an informed decision whether to commit to using the app. I also was irritated that the "sign-in/paywall" only showed up after few pages into the guide. Be upfront about it, be honest. Clearly indicate that sign is required.

Looks nice enough, so I downloaded it. Lost me at the signup step within the first guide. I don’t see the need for this if don’t plan on subscribing to your paid plan. Though I can understand it form a business perspective.

I‘m using excalidraw often at work. It really helps you to keep things simple. Prevents you from cramming several level of details into one diagram.

I like the idea and simplicity. But it's going to be hard to compete with Apollo for Reddit.

Define "large". Also define your access pattern.

Most nights I go to sleep with a podcast in my ears. I only skip it if I feel already really tired and have nothing on my mind to mull over.

1. Exclusively history podcasts: The History of Rome, Revolutions, Hardcore History, History of Napoleon.

2. I use really cheap corded in-ears: Sony MDR-EX110LPB. If they break, it's nothing to be sad about. I just get new ones. Bought the current pair in 2017.

EDIT: I set a sleep timer of 30 minutes. That's enough for most nights.

It's off putting that I can't do anything without first creating an account. Would love to just jump in.

That's cool, especially like that the parallel lanes don't overlap. I did something similar, but simpler, a few years ago for Hamburg's public transit "hvv" [1]. Described my approach in a blog post [2]. Hasn't been updated in three year, so probably some lines are broken.

[1]: https://hvv.live

[2]: https://franz.hamburg/writing/the-moving-city.html

Care to share your favorites?

I’m building something similar, though much simpler. A desktop app for creating static websites. You build your site offline and preview locally. Then deploy it to hosting, currently integrated with Vercel. But it also outputs the static files. Have a few thoughts about monetization, though that would be more of a “nice to have”.

Cool! How did you recruit the beta users? Shared among friends? Or did you use dedicated service?

Hey HN!

I've been working on Daily in my spare time for a few weeks now. It's a desktop app for creating simple, blog-style websites. I mainly built it for my dad. We started out with a static site generator using markdowns and dropbox. But markdown was still quite the hurdle. So I tried focusing on making things easy for non-technical users.

It's still quite rough around the edges, but it does the basics.

Happy to have your feedback! Feel free to e-mail at hello[at]project-daily.com

Static websites are great! I would love for them to be more popular. But a lot of people are locked out by the technical hurdle. "Just use <SSG> and host on <github/netlify/whatever>" does not work for your aunt, parent or SO.

I've tried and went into a different direction and created a desktop app [1] for creating a basic website. Yes it's electron and yes it currently only uploads to Vercel for hosting. But those are things my dad does not care about. I can send him a pre-configured "project" file, so he does not even have to enter any API keys.

EDIT: I've re-read this and this sounds like I'm ranting on your project. Not my intention, I love the bloat free sites md2blog generates. Keep it up!

[1]: https://www.project-daily.com

Message me at "h e l l o AT project - daily DOT com". Remove the spaces etc. I will try to keep you updated. I am also planning on generating an RSS feed from the app itself. Once this works, you can subscribe that.

I have taken a different route [1]. Started to work on a desktop app for creating static sites. It features a block/frame based editor, works fully offline (except deployment of course). It should specifically target non-technical users.

[1] https://www.project-daily.com/pages/an-experiment_1065.html

Maps and Keep (for a single shared shopping list)

Here are mine:

- https://franz.hamburg

- https://www.project-daily.com

Some blogs I follow via RSS (using the awesome NetNewsWire app):

- https://brendangregg.com

- https://brandur.org/

- https://ferd.ca/

You can also see them in Hamburg quite often. I can see them from my balcony.

Bought two pretzels every day for two years from their small stand at the Hauptmarkt, oh how I miss them.

It literally says OLAP on their website. Why would I use this for a static website?

Th last twenty Bloomberg Money Stuff [1] columns get into the details of SPAC vs IPO. Matt Levine does a pretty good job explaining finance stuff to non-finance people.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...

Nice work! I setup a private page for sharing baby photos with friends and family too. We only post photos with a small description, so I opted for e-mail as my “api”. The server runs a script periodically and just rebuilds the full “feed” as a single html file based on those mails. It also does some image and video optimization/normalization, but it’s all statically served via nginx.

This was just a proof-of-concept using the smallest lambdas available. I definitely would opt for a EC2 instance. Though lambda would be enough for something like a configuration service.

Nice, you can actually do something a bit more flexible using SQLite on AWS Lambda. "Just" mount an elastic file system (EFS) onto your functions. I wrote about it here: https://franz.hamburg/writing/shared-storage-for-lambda-func...

Is this similar to Phoenix LiveView?

That’s what I thought as well. What if some would scrape all repos and make them show up in search at least once a year.

Oh wow, I have completely forgotten about Clonk until I read your comments. Thanks for the pleasant memories!

I've finally started a blog to republish my Medium posts:

https://franz.hamburg

Also I'm working on a small server side analytics solution:

https://franz.hamburg/writing/visits-from-page-views.html

And of course: bread.

A sqlite based web analytics tool, currently working on week-over-week, month-over-month view.