Show HN: A fast, minimal daily horoscope site built with Next.js (dailyhoroscopes.run)

3 points by garmiter 1y ago ↗ HN

I built a simple daily horoscope site as a side project. Most sites I tried felt heavy and cluttered, so I wanted to see how lightweight and fast I could make one.

It’s designed to be minimal:

Loads under 1 second, even on slow connections

Mobile-first UI

Horoscope data pre-generated daily and served as static JSON

Stack: Next.js (frontend), Tailwind CSS, Cloudflare Workers (API proxy + caching), and hosted on Vercel. A cron job updates the data daily.

I’m curious:

Is it too minimal, or does it work as intended?

Would you find value in weekly/monthly readings?

Any ideas to improve performance or UX?

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fractallyte 1y ago ↗

Our expert team of astrologers works tirelessly...

Is that true?

It's impressive that the page loads quickly, but looking beyond that, at the content itself, it needs to be a lot more convincing that this is indeed an astrology site, and not a random AI generated substitute.

For instance, many of the links don't work...