Building websites is easier than ever, but maintaining them still feels like overhead in many cases.
I’ve been exploring the idea of a “public page” — not a full website, not a CMS — just a clean, read-only place to share information that already lives somewhere structured (like a spreadsheet).
I put together a small experiment to understand this pattern: https://www.sheet2notice.com
Not looking to promote it here — more interested in whether this problem resonates, and how others solve it today.
Do you still build a site anyway, or is there a lighter approach that works well?
nephihaha•1h ago
A lot of things are put on social media now which is where most people seem to hang out. (God knows why.) If you are not a Faecebook or Instagram etc member then you can't even view them.
paravaib•30m ago
What I find interesting is that a lot of information now lives outside traditional sites:
updates on social platforms
shared docs
spreadsheets
internal tools that get screenshotted or linked
In many of those cases, people aren’t really trying to “publish” in the classic sense — they just want a stable, public reference that doesn’t require joining a platform or logging in.
Search engines still matter, but it feels like a growing amount of content is accessed via direct links rather than discovery.
Curious whether you’ve seen good lightweight patterns for this that don’t turn into full websites.
nephihaha•22m ago
paravaib•19m ago
The middle ground seems harder to find now. Thanks for sharing this view.