Ask HN: Useful services for static websites

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5849508

by dsirijus • 13 years ago

6 5 13 years ago

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Disqus would be a prime example of this, but what are other interesting services that can bring static website to life?

Outside of littering the site with social iframes, that is.

Plugs welcomed! :)

EDIT: Suggested rewording of the question - how to build feature rich dynamic services on low cost vps machines?

rgbrgb• 13 years ago

I don't think you'd want to host your static website on a low cost VPS. S3/CloudFlare will be cheaper and more reliable.

rsamvit2• 13 years ago

I agree. I use s3 for this and it is excellent

gee_totes• 13 years ago

Maybe outsourcing forums to http://moot.it?

rsamvit2• 13 years ago

You can get some pretty cool stuff done with firebase. Its not really providing a service though. off the top of my head I've used Disqus, Facebook pages, and all kinds of social buttons

tmzt• 13 years ago

Still looking for a "social share" that doesn't suck.

Think of it like this, I shouldn't have to immediately pop up a dialog box, navigate to a different page, or stop what I'm doing to share something. I certainly shouldn't have to copy and paste a URL into a shortner and then into something like Twitter.

Apart from that, something like Disqus's comment recommendation/voting system, but applied to divs on the page. Instantly apply some javascript magic to static content.

There are a few other ideas along those lines, and it suprises me daily that there aren't more javascripts that can be dropped into a static page and enhance the semantic content of the page.

I guess something like Parse would help here too, a lot of time building an independent script for any of these is spent on the backend, which could be abstracted away with a backend service like Parse.

Ask HN: Useful services for static websites

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