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Congratulations! This is exciting stuff. I enjoyed reading Smashing Mag's writeup – their new site feels fast, and seeing their integrations with GoCommerce and
by modernerd 10y ago
Congratulations! This is exciting stuff. I enjoyed reading Smashing Mag's writeup – their new site feels fast, and seeing their integrations with GoCommerce and Algolia makes static hosting much more compelling.
Do you have plans to extend this to a “batteries included” platform? At the moment it's one piece of a puzzle; users must still choose and configure their build and deployment pipeline, which puts it out of reach for less technical users.
To make static site hosting appealing to a wider audience it feels like a click-and-go platform with themes/plugins may be a good direction to follow. I have used https://www.siteleaf.com/ https://www.siteleaf.com/ in the past and been impressed with the workflow. I'd love to help contribute to an open version that appealed to a wider non-technical audience.
- bobfunk 10y agoWe do really want to build a viable workflow around this stack, and get to a point where setting up a project like this is completely click-and-go - without giving up the fundamental basis of being open-source, based on open-standards and based on an open concept of the web! Wordpress and the whole ecosystem around the LAMP stack did a great job around this and was a big player in building an open web, but the underlying tech stack is way outdated now, and the developer experience is so far off what modern front-end tooling is evolving into, so we aim to build something for a modern stack, that doesn't give up on the fundamental openness of an open-source ecosystem.