Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web (singlepage.cc)
Creating a basic webpage has become way too complicated and expensive. Often there are those times when you just want to share your thoughts with the world but don't want the overhead and complexities that come with maintaining a website. Sometimes, you have an interesting thought piece, an education article, or just a quick and simple bio page that doesn't need the heavy hand of a WordPress blog or Medium post. That's where Single Page comes in. Publish a single page instantly to the web with no fuss.
I was laid off three weeks ago from Twitter and I decided to work through a couple of my projects and this was one of them. I've tried blogs over the years, Medium didn't feel right but yet I wanted to quickly post pages online and couldn't find an easy way to do it. So I created it.
Feedback appreciated!
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No, GitHub pages are tied to "an" account. It can be a secondary "anonymous" account. You can create an anonymous bear blog or one of the other million free writing and zero maintenance tools. It's certainly more anonymous than having to disclose your real identity via a credit card on a random person's page.
Also, what sort of content do you hope that your target audience (Bob the landscaper who is non technical but has a super urgent desire to send a message to the world in an anonymous way) will publish?
ETH is a bit better but still not there yet. There's "3rd generation" systems like Hedera[0] that use hashgraphs instead and consume about as much electricity as anything else you'd do on the internet.
Or at least choose one that's actually dedicated to privacy like Monero
Cool project! I like the design and hope you had fun with it
[0] https://hedera.com/
The text associated with those boxes could use some work. Perhaps you need a hammer to smooth out the grammar.
>I agree to the not post anything illegal.
>I have saved by secret phase and
[1] https://rentry.org
not named or identified
Not, if someone really really wanted to track down who wrote a page they couldn't.
I think your project suits more simple static pages. The competitor is more Notion rather than blogs and static site generators.
Nice work all the same. I think what's really missing is a minimal copy of something like google sites.
I want to be able to create something like my website at http://illabundavillage.com.au but I want it to be faster, not tied to google, and a little easier to edit.
There's a spectrum of flashy sites to single page texts. Many projects should aim to be in various shades of the middle.
https://www.ic.org/directory/
Besides, telegram has a massive userbase, which makes them a lucrative target for law enforcement.
> secret phrase in a safe location
Smart stuff with the secret phrase, but i'm afraid the security in the number of words there is just not sufficient for any practical safety.
> Very rarely do you need to update a page once it's been posted so we punted on that feature for now
LOL seriously?? Maybe you're a more sure shot than I am but i even update my gists more often than not
Practical safety? It's a single page not a bank account. It's odd you would jump to that conclusion without know the dictionary. You don't think 5^1000 is secure enough for a single page?
If you edit your pages, use a blog. This service isn't for the person that wants mutable pages. Different strokes my friend
As long as the system to delete isn't fast, or has a max-tries-delay mechanism, it should be fine.
Looks like a nice idea, but looks a little incomplete.
- [mmm.page](https://mmm.page/)
- [odie.us](https://odie.us/)
- [carrd.co](https://carrd.co/)
- [write.as](https://write.as/)
- [withknown.com](https://withknown.com/)
- [micro.blog](https://micro.blog/)
- [neocities.org](https://neocities.org/)
From this thread:
- https://bearblog.dev/
- https://telegra.ph
- https://rentry.org/
- https://brick.do/
- https://prose.sh/
At this point I feel the need to bring up Etherpad which is essentially an encrypted Google Docs alternative but can be used similarly. Ofc there's also Notion which is in a similar vein.
You know, the more I think about this problem the more saddened I am by the state of social media. You can't share a FB or Instagram post without forcing people to sign in or make an account. Twitter is one of the last ones that allow their content to be freely shared but the char limit is a pretty significant limit and even that has popups
It seems that the problem of "how do I make a quick and simple static site to share with anyone with internet access" isn't really a hard problem. Instead all these major social networking services have worked their ass off to make sure their platforms can't be used in that way
I do not believe this to be the case. If not logged in, it will lock the screen and block you reading after a few entries. That's not "free".
That's what I love about it. Simple, clean, and I don't have to maintain it.
Also found https://thoughts.page/
I might be wrong, but I feel that if you're aiming to make money with this, you have three markets:
1. People who just want to put their own stuff on the internet, potentially/hopefully anonymously, but are not making any money from it. In this case it might be better to have free pages with ads (and write a small script that would try to catch phishing/spam — in my experience, the words "PDF" and "Microsoft Office" have been catching 95% so far).
2. People who actually use it for their business needs (one-page portfolios, business proposals, inventory lists, whatever) — then you need custom domains and possibly accounts but I dunno.
3. People who are doing dangerous things. This applies to drug dealers as much as it does to political dissidents. Then you probably need cryptocurrency payments.
Regardless of what you do, I suggest you create some kind of a public discussion forum (FB group, Discord server) for this project. You can do it right now, and you'll likely learn a lot about what your users want and how they are actually using your product.
At any rate, best of luck. I think it's a good idea and I'd like to have more projects in this space (as someone who wants to start new projects all the time and hates small obstacles).
Uh... okay.
But JFTR, I think I've edited around 50% of all blog posts I've written in the last 10 years at least once. And not only because of typos. Some people might need to change their workflow.
I feel like I've time-travellled back 20 years sometimes, but this is now perceived as "cool" and given buzzwords like SPA SSR.
Then we're back to where we were. Might as well just use JS to fetch the async bits and serve the whole page from the server.
I work on a massive Angular codebase for work, and then try to stay as plain as possible with any side projects.