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Terrible Website Ideas - FrodoSwaggins - 02-02-2025
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/2PACX-1vSLLEzhwPkp2iWKGqN9pXgFPtnsemUyI3umKeO-iDiEjhzhMW-r45kSXzxOIS_6khM4QQJoBFNVAPKW/pub
RE: Terrible Website Ideas - gorzek - 02-02-2025
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.)