Re:Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium
by georgeoliver on Sunday October 06, 2019 @11:41AM
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It's always seemed odd to me that there isn't a hosted service with a headless web/mobile CMS, compiling to a static site, that saves to a few common backends (s3, etc.), with reasonable pricing (i.e. not $10+/mo). Let the user pay for their own storage.
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Re:Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium
by 1337shadow on Sunday October 06, 2019 @01:59PM
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Gitlab does that for free, with free storage. Just fork any of the existing example projects:
https://gitlab.com/pages
Re:Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium
by georgeoliver on Monday October 07, 2019 @12:03AM
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Whenever I've looked at Gitlab/GH pages, Netlify, etcetera in the past I haven't found a good web/mobile CMS to use with them. Most pro options are too expensive for a personal blog. However ellinokon's suggestion for Siteleaf looks promising.
Re:Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium
by 1337shadow on Monday October 07, 2019 @12:59PM
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Are you saying that you didn't find one example out of the 20 examples they provide on the link i posted (octopress, nanoc, pelican, hyde, hexo, hugo, jekyll, metalsmith, vuepress, plain-html ...) that supports mobile, nor has a mobile compatible theme available ? The gitlab pages option is free even with a custom domain and https.
Re:Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium
by georgeoliver on Monday October 07, 2019 @10:05PM
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I don't mean a mobile compatible theme, but a CMS mobile app to edit and create content. So something like Netlify CMS and Siteleaf.
Re:Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium
by tiborsaas on Sunday October 06, 2019 @04:50PM
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Netlify is exactly that with Gatsby, I have two blogs running on them.
Many themes have now deploy to Netlify buttons:
https://github.com/netlify-templates/gatsby-starter-netlify-...
Many themes support https://www.contentful.com/ as a backend.
The only thing that's a little concerning to me is the separation of domains: Hosting on a freemium service which deploys me a Node/React based static site generator that can connect to a third party headless CMS. That's why I still use markdown as the source of the content.
Too many moving parts, but at the same time if one goes down for good, I can fix it quite easily.
Re:Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium
by ellinokon on Sunday October 06, 2019 @02:01PM
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Doesn't several services like this exist already? Siteleaf should somewhat fit the bill. Webhook, now defunct, also did something similar.
Use Ghost. It's amazing. Using it with Docker (writing a post how to do this super easily) and it works flawlessly. The editing interface is unreal. Just run it on any instance you can (DO has instances that are $5 a month, or any server you already have running).
Hosting it on https://sdan.xyz/blog actually.