Show HN: Verysmall.site – vibecode single page websites

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27 points | by sixhobbits 3 days ago ago

13 comments

  • reassess_blind 2 days ago ago

    Cool idea, but you're probably going to get a bunch of phishing sites and other nefarious things hosted here.

    It's essentially a blank slate to host any content on your domain, including JS.

    See: https://verysmall.site/whycantwehavenicethings

    • sixhobbits 2 days ago ago

      A few people tried to add scam and porn sites, but because it all gets passed through gpt I can mainly rely on openai to reject anything too bad

      • reassess_blind 2 days ago ago

        You can’t rely on OpenAI for moderation. Your site will happily generate a script tag that fetches offensive content from another site and render it. OpenAI won’t know that the remote site has offensive content.

        Anyway, just keep an eye on it as you’re essentially running a static web host and someone will always try to ruin it for the rest of us.

  • justusthane 2 days ago ago

    I don’t really get it. The examples linked from the homepage are _so_ simple (and so similar) they might as well just be built with one or two templates and a WYSIWYG editor. I don’t get why they need to be vibe-coded at all.

    Although maybe the issue is just that you haven’t picked the best examples? The one you linked in a comment with the raining emojis is a way better example that shows the flexibility (and the fun!) of this, I think.

    Either way, I’d go with https://mmm.page as an easy and fun page builder before this, but maybe that’s just my own prejudice against vibe coding.

    • sixhobbits 2 days ago ago

      "just use templates and an editor" is simple for us but still a learning curve for the people I wanted to help with this. I was going to recommend carrd, but I think this is even simpler. You can definitely get pretty fancy if you make a lot of edit requests or have a very detailed creation prompt, I will update the linked examples with some more creative stuff people built.

    • iwangulenko 2 days ago ago

      this is a "dropbox moment" - "hey you can just ftp ssh into a server why would you pay for an app tod backup data";

      supercool, simple and fast to use ,good job

  • nxobject 3 days ago ago

    Let my 9-yo niece loose on this - his first prompt: "I want to show my friends cool fortnite dances". Then he said: "how can I show this to my friends?" I think he's having a lot of fun.

    In a utopian future, social media would mean having this over the open Internet instead of a social media garden. It'd be healthier for my kids at least...

  • sixhobbits 3 days ago ago
  • ajoshu 3 days ago ago

    Interesting vibe code project. I was messing about with something similar recently, but when your page was created, there is always a input at the bottom with a 'regenerate' button

    So you can say 'nevermind, make the background darker, and remove the navbar' to make edits. - Made it quite flexible, I dumped the idea though.

    • sixhobbits 3 days ago ago

      The first version was kinda like this and then I figured it would be useful to have some separation for queuing etc (it's all running on a single free deployment machine with Replit at the moment, but in theory I could separate the app, the workers that generate the HTML, and the hosting of the HTML pretty easily now.

  • stirfish 2 days ago ago

    Amazing work. My favorite thing to vibe so far has been single-page websites, but none of mine are as fun as yours