I love this site. It's truly impressive for any solo founder, regardless of the age, let along an 18 year old. Yeah, you kind of rely on the generosity of your vendor (Vercel, in this case), but that's really the only option if you want to keep costs low.<p>I hated Wordpress so much so that I wrote my own CMS + static site generator using a different approach and used it for clients who run sites with 3 million+ visitors a month currently. Once we made that move, we realized how horribly slow was Wordpress even on the best hardware thrown at it. Our costs dropped down to 1/10th of what we used to spend as well purely in terms of hardware. I can easily believe that static sites are the future.<p>I think this space has a lot of room for new players and definitely worth to keep a watch on.
All the best. Hope you see success.<p>Neya
Wow, I've considered building this exact same app for about 11 years now, but I never did it because I thought there would never be a large enough market to make it successful.<p>Kudos to you for actually building and launching! Hope you have a lot of success and prove me wrong about the market size.<p>EDIT: After going through the site and your video, it appears as though you crawl the dynamic site, and generate static pages out of it. It's not really clear if you support sites that render on the client side. Do you?
...any backend that is a content-heavy website? Or are they somehow also abstracting away the application logic?<p>How is this different from a CDN cache?
Wow this is pretty cool! Seems like a great tool to throw onto an existing CMS, allowing clients to retain the flexibility of editing their website directly.<p>Does this deal with/forward dynamic content on the same domain? Or do admin panels, etc have to be hosted on a separate subdomain?<p>EDIT: Wow, Miguel is even completely transparent (<a href="https://sitesauce.app/open" rel="nofollow">https://sitesauce.app/open</a>) with his revenue and costs. That's incredibly inspiring to see from an 18 year old.
Vercel has a 16000 files limit (That we hit). How do you handle big sites?<p>Edit: This is not a problem for a lot of pages. But to me that is a deal breaker to use Vercel for any medium or large sized projects.
Requiring a credit card before any functionality is enabled breaks the WordPress.org plugin directory guidelines.<p>To be compliant, the 7-day free trial should be possible without having to provide credit card details.<p>That is, in any case, best practice, unless profiting from people who forget to cancel is an important part of your business plan.
Let me start off by saying good job on launching. Is there an ability to stop automatic deployments on change and instead allow for manual deployments? Also, I am a bit confused about the hosting. On your landing page you say:<p>"Sitesauce hosts your static sites on Vercel (formerly ZEIT), offering unlimited bandwidth and their world-class CDN for no additional cost."<p>Then in your Terms of Service you say:<p>"You agree that Sitesauce is not responsible for any additional fees charged to your credit card by third-party server providers such as Vercel."<p>How does the hosting work? Do I sign up with Sitesauce and also sign up for Vercel? If that is the case, would I be able to pick a different host if I wanted? If it isn't the case and Sitesauce handles the backend process of creating an account on Vercel is it paid for by using my credit card and you pass that info to Vercel?
Landing page feedback: the backend that keeps changing (“like X-powered websites”) could cause the whole page to jump. This is very annoying on narrow viewports (e.g. mobile), especially when I’m reading text, for instance the FAQ.
I like it, will have to try this on my wp site.<p>Thank you for creating this. It's a great product, something I'd happily pay $20 for.<p>I think you should perhaps market this to the SEO community. They care tons about pagespeed. Also, set up an affiliate program.<p>All the best!
Wow, good job! As a fellow teenager, it really encourages me that it's possible to launch something successfully without making it your full-time job :)
How can $20/month flat pricing realistically work? What if I've got a content-heavy site that gets a lot of traffic? Will I get hit with a surprise bill, or will you eat the costs and just cut me off?<p>It's a great idea for a service, but the pricing just seems too simplistic.
>Without access to your backend, there's no way for anyone to steal sensitive data or deface your website.<p>No way? At all? Why could they not deface or alter the static version? Of course there's a lot less attack surface but that doesn't mean it's invulnerable.