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Show HN: A fast, minimal daily horoscope site built with Next.js (dailyhoroscopes.run)
3 points by garmiter 343 days ago
I built a simple daily horoscope site as a side project. Most sites I tried felt heavy and cluttered, so I wanted to see how lightweight and fast I could make one.

It’s designed to be minimal:

Loads under 1 second, even on slow connections

Mobile-first UI

Horoscope data pre-generated daily and served as static JSON

Stack: Next.js (frontend), Tailwind CSS, Cloudflare Workers (API proxy + caching), and hosted on Vercel. A cron job updates the data daily.

I’m curious:

Is it too minimal, or does it work as intended?

Would you find value in weekly/monthly readings?

Any ideas to improve performance or UX?
1 comments
fractallyte 343 days ago
Our expert team of astrologers works tirelessly...

Is that true?

It's impressive that the page loads quickly, but looking beyond that, at the content itself, it needs to be a lot more convincing that this is indeed an astrology site, and not a random AI generated substitute.

For instance, many of the links don't work...

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