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by nstart 1128 days ago
Just want to shout out a couple of things.

One, it's great to see a hack project here that's been done just for the fun of it. I'm noticing a few comments questioning the "why?" around this. To me at least, it's just a really fun thing to do to hack together something, just because. There doesn't always have to be a rhyme or reason for things like this.

Two, it felt like there was a period where sites that would host hack projects with no limitations was slowly dying out. Not just because of costs but also because of the associated risks with it (spam, phishing, etc). I really do love what Vercel is enabling here. When I mentor younger folks, it's becoming really easy to tell them where to go throw up a hack project after they've learnt git and Vercel is fast becoming The choice to send them to. Much kudos and gratitude to the team there.

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Vercel and Netlify are fantastic options for those exact class of projects. Render as well for the more full stack hack projects.
I’ve seen some people use Glitch for experimental web projects.

https://glitch.com/

> "why?"

Put it in fullscreen and you can safely leave your computer (document.body.requestFullscreen()). Too bad the background goes black.