[tedkimble]

There's definitely a point at which an actual web app makes sense. But I think there's also a large category of websites that have been built as dynamic apps even though they’re updated sparingly and only require changes to a few items of content or data.

I recently launched Static Website Manager (https://www.staticwebsitemanager.com) to help bridge this gap between static and dynamic websites. Relevant to this discussion is our Form Responder tool, which provides an endpoint for your HTTP forms.

The cool thing is you can connect them to your Jekyll data files and then new form submission data will be committed (appended or set to a key) to that data file. New commits also trigger builds/deploys, resulting in a dynamically-updated static website. (They work across your branches, too, if you need to moderate submissions before merging with production.)

[sneak]

It looks awesome, and I've been thinking about building a tool just like this one around Jekyll myself.

The pricing is a bit steep - I would be fine with $15/mo/account but I have a half-dozen sites to manage and more all the time. Some of them are low enough traffic that $180/year isn't really justified.

Thoughts?

[tedkimble]

Thanks, and totally understandable. I'm still considering what to offer in a more affordable plan for these types of low-usage/low-traffic sites. Would you be opposed to a plan that limited based on usage (the number of commits, which our service triggers builds/deploys/etc...)?

[sneak]

Yeah, absolutely. I wouldn't need more than 50-100 all year across all my sites.