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I have read this a couple of times, and I still have no idea what it is telling me or doing. What am I missing?

• JoeSmithson 8y ago
  Seems like essentially a free hosting service for websites generated from Markdown
  • ChrisSD 8y ago
    Do you know how it is free? The cost of hosting static document only sites will be low but not zero. So is the cost being eaten by the owner or are adverts/tracking inserted?
    • 11235813213455 8y ago
      if you have enough money, it's a common strategy to make a free product to attract users. Once you have an important user-base, your company has a value
      • ChrisSD 8y ago
        So the upsell comes later?
        • eclipxe 8y ago
          Of course!
        • nqzero 8y ago
          not always. i'd be happy to throw a little money at hosting a ton of stuff if it served as a load-test for my work. unfortunately, trying to find something to give away that other people will use isn't as easy as one might think
      • jakobegger 8y ago
        Even if you don't have a lot of money, you can probably run a niche product like that for little money, as long as it doesn't get too popular.
• factorialboy 8y ago
  The key is to invent a new term for an existing entity. Here the author tries to introduce the term "document site" for static websites.
  • 11235813213455 8y ago
    hehe, I guess it's translated from Chinese
    • yorwba 8y ago
      The Chinese version does use the literal equivalent 文档站点. However, the usual term used by Chinese developers for static sites appears to be 静态网站 (see e.g. the entry in Baidu's encyclopedia https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%9D%99%E6%80%81%E7%BD%91%E7%AB%99/2776875 https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%9D%99%E6%80%81%E7%BD%91%E7%... ) Maybe the author was simply unaware that static site generators exist because all they wanted to do was upload documents.
• whorleater 8y ago
  It's a static site generator
  • falsedan 8y ago
    Tied to a single hosting provider