Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?

Re:Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites... by splatcollision on Monday April 05, 2021 @10:43AM (#26699668)

Chiming in here with my latest "weird but cheap" stack:

* Use a Trello board as a free CMS. * Write cloudflare worker code to read cards from the board via Trello APIs and render card content as plain old HTML.

I use labels as tags for the categories, and have specific formatting in the card descriptions. If an attachment is a YouTube URL, it renders the video as an embed, otherwise it uses image attachments as post images. Card covers render as the link thumbnails on the list pages.

Powers our family YouTube blog: https://thunderiron.family

(Check it out if you like fun and delicious Keto recipes)

An earlier version of this stack powers my personal dev blog, and the approach is written up here:

https://splatcollision.com/page/meta-post

What is particularly cool is that I can post things right from my phone using the Trello apps!

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Re:Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites... by caspar on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @06:37AM (#26710262)

Nicely done! In pre-COVID-19 times, Atlassian used a similar hack for its catered lunch menus: a hand-updated Trello board stored the menu items, along with some data about which items are vegetarian, gluten free, etc (using labels?), and then that spat out a nicely formatted menu at a well known URL / on some TVs. Little bit of ingenuity goes a long way to avoid having to maintain yet another piece of software :)

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Re:Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites... by el_dev_hell on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:40PM (#26706123)

Damn! That's certainly novel.

Nice work.

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Re:Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites... by cusx on Monday April 05, 2021 @10:59AM (#26699908)

haha brilliant!

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