[HN Gopher] Show HN: Straw.Page - Extremely simple website builder
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       Show HN: Straw.Page - Extremely simple website builder
        
       Author : okozzie
       Score  : 49 points
       Date   : 2021-02-13 16:39 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | 1MachineElf wrote:
       | Great UI. Out of curiosity, does a user's website have to be
       | hosted at straw.page, or can they take the generated website and
       | host it on any static website host?
        
         | okozzie wrote:
         | Thanks! Currently everything is hosted on Straw.page - I'm
         | planning on adding an export feature for premium users soon
        
       | m00x wrote:
       | Great satire website!
        
         | okozzie wrote:
         | Haha, wanted to make something less traditional
        
       | masaav wrote:
       | This is fantastic!
        
       | bighitbiker3 wrote:
       | Love the UI! Nice job on the product as well
        
         | okozzie wrote:
         | Appreciate it, thank you!
        
       | 2bitencryption wrote:
       | i'm convinced this style is the next big thing in web UI - at
       | least for startups/simple web tools/anything more dekstop-
       | oriented than mobile-oriented.
       | 
       | it's such great a rejection of all the stale, boring, "clean" UI
       | convention that we're drowning in today.
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       | it's not just nostalgia - it's fun, it's rebellious, it has real
       | character. it shouts "I'm having fun, why shouldn't you?"
        
         | quarantine wrote:
         | I'm currently building a website with this kind of rectangular
         | design language and I'm really digging it.
        
           | leesalminen wrote:
           | My web app was rocking squared off design circa 2014. In 2018
           | we hired a designer and the first order of business was to
           | round all the things. I hated it! But, our users loved it.
           | Strange world.
        
         | okozzie wrote:
         | Best thing I've read in a while, thank you! :)
        
       | maxbaines wrote:
       | Nice, really like some of the examples, might use this someday
       | for some quick project.
       | 
       | Would like an option to pay something and download the html to
       | self host. I did the see the one time signup and custom url.
        
         | okozzie wrote:
         | Thanks! I'll add an export feature soon
        
           | 1MachineElf wrote:
           | Such a feature would be fantastic.
        
       | chmod775 wrote:
       | The UI is absolutely horrifying and I love it.
        
         | okozzie wrote:
         | Agreed
        
       | nexthash wrote:
       | Woah! I love this retro-inspired type of design. It feels so fun
       | and appealing, as if geocities was reincarnated. I wouldn't even
       | bat an eye at the $50 lifetime hosting option. I've been watching
       | this new trend away from "clean" UI for a while, and see so much
       | potential for a new wave of quirky services and digital gardens
       | on the internet away from FAANG walled gardens.
       | 
       | To that end, here's some cool libraries and resources to get you
       | started. What's awesome is that since we are in 2021 this design
       | language can be married with the power of modern web frameworks
       | to make something extraordinary.
       | 
       | https://thesephist.github.io/blocks.css/
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       | https://jdan.github.io/98.css/
       | 
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalGardens/
        
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