HN: I built a Bitcoin meme site with 21-episode fake Satoshi interviews

by FunAnalyst5490 • 5 months ago

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The whole site is one static HTML file. No framework, no build step, no dependencies (aside from one QR code CDN lib). Deployed to Cloudflare Pages.

What's in it:

100 fake Satoshi Nakamoto quotes with deep-linking (each quote gets a hash URL)

A 21-episode AI-generated podcast called "The Satoshi Tapes" with a full HTML5 audio player (progress bar, seek, auto-advance, waveform animation)

Share-to-X with pre-formatted tweet text per episode

A Save Image feature that composites quotes onto a canvas with a background image, gold border, typography, and branding — all drawn client-side with Canvas API

OG meta tags for social sharing previews

Bitcoin donation section with a QR code Keyboard shortcuts, swipe-to-next on mobile, scroll reveal animations

A few easter eggs in the source for anyone who View Sources

Technical bits that might be interesting:

Glass morphism CSS with backdrop-filter, SVG noise textures, and CSS mask-image for a radial fade on a background silhouette

The share image is generated entirely on a <canvas> — background image composited with overlays, vignette, text shadow, and dynamic word wrapping

IntersectionObserver for scroll-triggered animations with prefers-reduced-motion support Single-letter keyboard shortcuts coexist with a multi-letter easter egg sequence using a 600ms debounce buffer

Image fallback pattern throughout: WebP with <picture>, onerror hides the broken img and shows an emoji fallback

The whole thing started as a joke and turned into an excuse to see how far you can push a single HTML file. View Source is part of the experience.

andirk• 5 months ago

Bitcoin bro here. Very cool! I'm working on something pushing the bare minimum too. Even minimaler if you could smash all the Javascript into the `onkeydown` and other "content attributes"[0] so there's not even a `<script>` tag!

[0] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#event...

HN: I built a Bitcoin meme site with 21-episode fake Satoshi interviews

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