[escaper]

I get that it's probably "trendy" to say you don't have or need a website but with it being so easy to create a static page, I'm failing to understand why you wouldn't just do that, which is already the bare minimum, if you care about your project and want to sell it?

[dmos62]

Why is an HTML document the bare minimum? I absolutely appreciate this far more accessible form, author's dedication to function and disregard for showmanship. Somewhat paradoxically, for a potential client like me, this is way better marketing than any amount of superfluous CSS sugaring or formatting.

[recursive]

I think this text/plain presentation is a form of showmanship.

Put another way, do think there is ever any amount of CSS that is not superfluous?

[dmos62]

It's showmanship in that it's so nonstandard that it's theatrical. We shouldn't stigmatize that.

CSS can be non-superfluous in documents, like when formatting text or a table.

I'd like to focus on the fact that this required orders of magnitude less effort than designing a web site, and most importantly – the presentation did not suffer. There were no compromises to be made.

Some have mentioned that this lacks functionality, but I'm having a hard time imagining what that might be. Maybe mobile-readiness, in that it's preformatted. Considering that this is a Unix-y tool for power-users, I think it's ok to expect them to read this on a PC.

[bigj0n]

HTML is the standard form of internet document delivery, that's why it's the bare minimum. It's marginal effort to set up and objectively more accessible than not having a website.

I'm all for reducing complexity, but at this extent your are removing pretty huge pieces of functionality for extremely marginal streamlining.

It's a gimmick

[rhizome]

Why is an HTML document the bare minimum?

HTML isn't a technical requirement, but they do say their goal is to sell the service.

[tomcam]

I believe OP has created an ingenious way to qualify early users, which is also the stated purpose of this release.

[mrighele]

I would say the linked url IS a website even though it is made by a single txt page.

I'm not sure though that a txt document is "simpler" than a bare (no js, not images) html document; on one side you can read it with something as simple as curl, on the other the txt didn't render properly on my phone.

[quickthrower2]

Had he done that I doubt it would have done so well on HN. It’s a differentiation point from yet another bootstrap css SaaS with three tier pricing, faded monotone brand logos and circlular portrait photos of the “team”.

[zulgan]

tbh i just wanted to have fun building it having the ssh registration just makes me excited, i feel happy every time i try it out; using the api and playing with it is the same, like making a todo list on baxx https://github.com/jackdoe/baxx/blob/master/examples/todo.sh

to me the `yet another bootstrap css SaaS with three tier pricing, faded monotone brand logos and circlular portrait photos of the “team”` is just depressing