Ask HN: Useful services for static websites
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Still looking for a "social share" that doesn't suck.
Think of it like this, I shouldn't have to immediately pop up a dialog box, navigate to a different page, or stop what I'm doing to share something. I certainly shouldn't have to copy and paste a URL into a shortner and then into something like Twitter.
Apart from that, something like Disqus's comment recommendation/voting system, but applied to divs on the page. Instantly apply some javascript magic to static content.
There are a few other ideas along those lines, and it suprises me daily that there aren't more javascripts that can be dropped into a static page and enhance the semantic content of the page.
I guess something like Parse would help here too, a lot of time building an independent script for any of these is spent on the backend, which could be abstracted away with a backend service like Parse.
Think of it like this, I shouldn't have to immediately pop up a dialog box, navigate to a different page, or stop what I'm doing to share something. I certainly shouldn't have to copy and paste a URL into a shortner and then into something like Twitter.
Apart from that, something like Disqus's comment recommendation/voting system, but applied to divs on the page. Instantly apply some javascript magic to static content.
There are a few other ideas along those lines, and it suprises me daily that there aren't more javascripts that can be dropped into a static page and enhance the semantic content of the page.
I guess something like Parse would help here too, a lot of time building an independent script for any of these is spent on the backend, which could be abstracted away with a backend service like Parse.
Maybe outsourcing forums to http://moot.it?
You can get some pretty cool stuff done with firebase. Its not really providing a service though.
off the top of my head I've used Disqus, Facebook pages, and all kinds of social buttons
Outside of littering the site with social iframes, that is.
Plugs welcomed! :)
EDIT: Suggested rewording of the question - how to build feature rich dynamic services on low cost vps machines?