Ask HN: How is something like Super.so built?

1 points by alex-wallish 5 years ago | 2 comments

I came across fruitionsite.com which is an open source implementation, but it seems a bit different. It appears that they're simply re-writing traffic and not actually hosting the site themselves.

Does anybody have any guesses as to how Super.so (or similar) is implemented?

iamben 5 years ago |

Yeah, look at:

https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/nextjs-notion-starter... and https://github.com/NotionX/react-notion-x

I played around with Cloudflare workers, but ended up just paying for Super.so as the cost > the hassle. I could be wrong, but think it's very similar to those repos. So loosely, grab everything from Notion, make the appropriate page changes so it works as a site, then push it elsewhere as static content.

leerob 5 years ago |

Hey! Super.so uses Next.js and Vercel under the hood. They are using an unofficial Notion API to convert content to React components, and then ultimately to HTML through Next.js, which is deployed and hosted with Vercel. They also use Vercel for adding and managing custom domains.

We (Vercel) are working on an open-source example similar to this, so people and clone and deploy and built their own platform!