we live in hell

In this day and age, it's possible to run a single page website in the form of a shared Google Doc with public access. 


Advantages:

• Mobile friendly 
  
• Free as shit
  
• Essentially disposable 
  
• Setup is like, nothing at all
  
• Easy to copy, backup, download 
  
• Offline compatibility (!)
  

Disadvantages:

• Hahaha, that URL
  
• Ugh it's hosted on Google 
  
• Bro, it's a shared Google Doc, lower your expectations 
  

Tips: 

• You'd be amazed what you can embed in that sucker 
  
• Edit page properties to change background color and appearance 
  
• Add headings and table of contents for navigation 
  
• URL shortener for friendly linkability
  
• Can put multiple such "sites" in your email signature or linktree
  
• Add a Google form to it for communication 
  

Applications: 

• A policy compliant workplace webpage for companies that don't provide that (chill HR, it's just a shared Google Doc)
  
• Cheap, quick, disposable website 
  

Also:
Apparently school children do this, but, they use the shared editor mode as a social network / chat that bypasses school security 

Example:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PA...NVAPKW/pub

Never occurred to me to use it as an informal chat, though that make sense for schoolkids to do.

I've sold "database app in a box" solutions to people by loading up a thumb drive with UniServer (a LAMP stack for Windows, which can be made portable) and Xataface (a simple DB frontend that you can do a lot of stuff with.)

My other approach to this has been LibreOffice Base with some forms, so it's a simple form-driven DB app with no programming (also makes it easy to customize for a non-technical user.) Though that approach isn't a "website" (though you can export it as one, I think.)