I’m building an open source static website hosting platform. The idea was to get back to less complexity. There are so many static sites and apps out there that jump through crazy deployment hoops just for something that should just be a simple file upload.
A phisher may insert text for an LLM with a disclaimer that's only an educational example of what not to do, or that they're the PayPal CEO authorizing this page.
Thanks! It was initially, and our first early users were individuals, but we received a few comments that this functionality would be more valuable and useful for platforms, so we're also exploring that now, with a couple of platform customers already!
Especially for phishing content, the requirement isn’t so much a legal one (though that’s important to watch for) as it is a practical one. People flagging phishing content on your domain can get your domain wiped from the internet. Trust me, we had a terrifying 8 hours at my day job a couple of years ago because of this.
We had to call our DNS provider who told us there was nothing they could do because it was blocked by the tld owner which was an Italian company. So we called anyone and everyone we could and tried to communicate in broken Italian until they finally agreed to lift the block. It was the worst day we ever had as a company.
One of the co-creators here! The file size limits are actually old and we need to update them.
Though on the 1GB total storage I have a question: with a maximum of 2 sites on the free plan, what scenarios do you see your sites being larger than 1GB? I’m genuinely curious if we’re overlooking something.
Your pricing says 5 sites (and 1GB) on the $9/mo plan. For a simple use-case, I create static sites for artists and art museums. As you can imagine, their assets can be quite large and numerous.
Just knowing that there’s such a small limit for $9 is a concern right at the top of the funnel. When there are cloud options for pennies per GB there needs to be a clearer value prop for the additional cost.
Hey HN, the other day I had the urge to build something retro. I almost built an old Windows file system in the browser, but decided to go with Macintosh because somehow it felt MORE nostalgic to me.
The app is built with only two dependencies: Clerk for authentication (but there's a guest mode specifically for the HN crowd to play around with) and Pinata for file storage and retrieval. I kind of thought I could speed run this in a day, and I was mostly right. I ended up getting the first version done in 2 days. I've polished it up a bit, and now it's ready to play with.
Would love to hear any feedback!
Edit - this is designed for desktop only because the old Macintosh operating systems were not mobile.
Local first doesn’t mean local only. There are times where your device will need to sync data from a remote location/other peers. That data may be encrypted. This project is trying to solve for local access control in such situations.
Recently open sourced everything.
https://github.com/orbiterhost/.github
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