Show HN: Stelae – €19.90/year WordPress, exported to static HTML

Show HN: Stelae – €19.90/year WordPress, exported to static HTML(stelae.eu)

3 points by rowbin 20 days ago | 3 comments

rowbin 19 days ago |

Author here. Quick framing for anyone who wants the why before clicking: Stelae is for people who already know WordPress but don't want to run public PHP. WordPress as private editor, static HTML as the public output. €19.90/year, free during beta. Happy to answer questions in the thread.

hungryhobbit 20 days ago |

Interesting idea.

It's kind of a scam, because anyone with an AWS account could do the same thing, for the same cost (and have space for 20+ static websites) ... but not everyone can deal with AWS, nor can everyone edit a website.

It's too bad Wordpress is hot garbage, and I'd never touch (or recommend that even the most tech illiterate person should touch) that garbage fire of an app.

rowbin 20 days ago | |

Yeah, I think that's basically right. If you know AWS/S3/CloudFront or Cloudflare Pages or whatever, the raw hosting cost is close to zero. That's not what I'm charging for. It's more the boring workflow around it: give someone a WordPress editor, keep WordPress private, export the static files, handle backups/deploys, and make it one thing instead of a bunch of docs and scripts.

You actually said it yourself in your comment: "not everyone can deal with AWS, nor can everyone edit a website." Stelae is for the second group, the WordPress-editor side, who don't want to run public PHP to publish. The €19.90 isn't margin on the hosting; the hosting is yours, on whatever provider you pick.