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Ask HN: What killer features do you wish you had on your personal website?

5 points by kulor ↗ HN
I'm creating a personal homepage service that already has features like a contact form with spam protection and built-in analytics.

What features would you love to have that would be unfeasible to build yourself?

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pamoroso
1-click automatic configuration of SPF, DMARC, and DKIM.
kulor
Curious question, would you be prepared to delegate your DNS to a personal website service?

Then again, rather than owning the solution, the service could spot that you don't have the relevant best practices in place and provide instructions on how to fix it (e.g. pre-populated DNS entries).

pamoroso
Maybe not delegate, but the service could provide a service with instructions to fix DNS.
themodelplumber
Nice idea!

One that comes to mind is broken link tracker w/ keyword search. So if Zed's Open Source 3D Engine link is on my page & still working, but the keyword "Zed" no longer appears on that site because Zed was bought out by MiracleSoft, then I want to know about that ASAP because I partially represent Zed's amazing work, but would be happy to find and post some alternatives since I don't want to represent MiracleSoft.

kulor
I'd never thought of that but now you mention it the "repetitional affiliation" is a strong signal that you would want to uphold.

More simplistic but I suppose the same idea stands, that if you update your twitter.com/sue-soap to twitter.com/sue-newley-wed but forget to update it on your personal website your should get a "alert" that it's gone out of sync.

lucas_codes
You're probably familiar with developers, but artists are another profession that often have their own homepages.

Useful features are the ability to show and easily update a list of events for performances or exhibitions, and media for portfolio or headshots etc.

kulor
The idea of listing upcoming events is still relevant as developers talk at conferences & appear on podcasts. Makes me think of Lanyrd
muzani
I'd still like to be able to write static HTML pages from markdown. I realize there's a lot of solutions for this but it seems to be quite rigid.

The reason is I love working on CSS stuff, but writing the HTML part is too tedious for the amount of pages I want to write.

kulor
Wouldn’t Jekyll or Hugo fill this gap?
smarri
Login page for users. Ability to upload files e.g. video, image, text.