Hello Hacker News,<p>Previously I demoed my app, Liberate, that helps you empower others to update your existing static website without porting the whole site to a CMS or a blogging engine, using HTML and Javascript:<p>http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2830429<p>You pointed out 2 weaknesses:<p>1. Content cannot be indexed by search engines<p>2. Content will be unavailable as soon as the server goes down<p>Now, I came up with a PHP-embed solution that saves the content to a local SQLite flat file database that addresses them both.<p>Check out the screencast at:<p>http://liberateapp.com/<p>If you're thinking that the site looks like Rails scaffolding, you're right, it was built in Rails but I think using PHP here makes sense because most web servers that host existing static websites already do support PHP.<p>Would love to hear what you think of this.