Ask HN: Would anyone build this?

4 broadwayinc 3 5/15/2025, 2:53:33 PM

I wonder if there is anyone who would build an ai web generator that outputs just plain solid HTML pages. Not a project bloated with frameworks with a backend that barely works. I can do the backend. I just need the plain HTML files that I could work on. Is there such service that does this?

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raphinou · 3h ago

What I did is ask Google Gemini to generate me a static site generator using data in a sqlite database. It's a Show HN I just submitted [1], and you can see the generated website at https://freshstuff.net/

Might be an approach you could take too.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43995776

kognate · 3h ago

Yes, this exists now. You can ask Claude to output the document in markdown format and then convert that markdown into HTML, or ask for the output in HTML. For example, using Claude 3.7 Sonnet the following prompt outputs a vanilla HTML document:

write two paragraphs extolling the benefits to mariners of the Jones act and provide the output formatted in vanilla html

overu589 · 4h ago

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