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I wanted a static site generator that could have a CMS so that I could pass the sites over to friends or clients so they could update it. Essentially, a not-ter

by snide 12y ago

I wanted a static site generator that could have a CMS so that I could pass the sites over to friends or clients so they could update it. Essentially, a not-terrible Wordpress that wasn't blog centric and bloated. http://www.webhook.com http://www.webhook.com I built it over the summer, funded it through Kickstarter and have slowly been building a nice little client base of recurring revenue. The code itself is open source so it's self-hostable and free, but we provide a quick one-line deploy hosted solution as well. Probably the most fun bit has been trying to just remove the barrier of troublesome local installation for these kinds of things. Usually people go with PHP because you can just run it everywhere, but that still requires setting up apache/mysql somewhere. We use Firebase and Node, so were able to get the entire package installed through a downloadable app. I think we probably have the fasted installation available for this kind of thing. I work on it mostly full-time, then design client sites with it on the side.

bnb 12y ago
This is fucking cool as shit. Thank you so much for posting it--will definitely be trying to use it in the future.
Khao 12y ago
This is really awesome! I looked quickly at your self-hosting guide and I was wondering is the only option to deploy the static website Google Cloud Storage? I would like to setup webhook on a Heroku with free-tier dynos and deploy to AWS because those are the services I already use and love. If it's not possible, do you think I could fork your project and integrate AWS deployment somewhat easily?
- snide 12y ago
  The reason we went with GCS is because AWS limits you to 100 static sites (buckets). That's a block for our hosted solution. The code is MIT, so do with it what you want. May be a little bit more complicated then just switching out the build layer, but if you can get something working that's configurable, feel free to send in a PR.

by snide 12y ago

bnb 12y ago

This is fucking cool as shit. Thank you so much for posting it--will definitely be trying to use it in the future.

Khao 12y ago

This is really awesome! I looked quickly at your self-hosting guide and I was wondering is the only option to deploy the static website Google Cloud Storage? I would like to setup webhook on a Heroku with free-tier dynos and deploy to AWS because those are the services I already use and love. If it's not possible, do you think I could fork your project and integrate AWS deployment somewhat easily?

snide 12y ago
The reason we went with GCS is because AWS limits you to 100 static sites (buckets). That's a block for our hosted solution. The code is MIT, so do with it what you want. May be a little bit more complicated then just switching out the build layer, but if you can get something working that's configurable, feel free to send in a PR.