Make the indie web easier
We need web publishing tools that do not require users to open the Terminal at all. And we need lots of them.
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Terminal commands are easy for you, but they’re a huge hurdle for most people to overcome. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen a link to a static website generator, which claims to be simple, and then the instructions start with something like:
It’s easy! Just gem install blah then blah setup mywebsite then cd mywebsite then use nano or your favourite editor to write Markdown files! So easy!
This is not easy.
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Let’s give people choices. Let’s give people options for tools they can set up and use, with no more knowledge than the knowledge they already have.