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by Ancapistani 2142 days ago
HN is a site populated largely by people with the exact skills necessary to make something like this, solo, in a relatively short time frame. I see absolutely nothing that would lead me to believe it’s anything but one individual’s project that they happen to be passionate about.

I first saw it a couple of days ago and realized that if that domain was available, others would be. They were - I ended up with a half dozen or so great domains relevant to this election and am in the process of putting together a series of sites targeted to specific aspects of the candidates’ publicly espoused beliefs and actions. The hardest part is writing content in a way that is reasonably objective and with proper sources. Actually building the sites will be fairly trivial - grab a template, some of already available photographs of the candidates (it falls under parody, so it’s “fair use” under US law), and toss it all up on a cheap cloud host.

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I don't for a second doubt that a single person in this age could spin up a site. In fact, looking at the source, it shows that it's Wordpress. However, even the best webdev has their blind spots, but this site somehow covers them all: seeing the need for a slogan, no grammar/style issues in the writing, all claims are sourced, even the disclaimer, etc. Also, the whole storefront thing is very sus, as it seems the point is to spread the slogans. In fact, there's even a new feature at the bottom of the page to "send this to a friend".