2019/SF/simplest

 New Survey of Simplest Way to Have an Indie Site  was a session at IndieWebCamp SF 2019.

Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/simplest

IndieWebCamp SF 2019 Session: New Survey of Simplest Way to Have an Indie Site When: 2019-12-07 14:30

Participants

 * Eril
 * Johnny (tw:@generativist)
 * Johnny (tw:@generativist)

Solutions

 * Webflow
 * Wordpress
 * Known
 * Micro blog
 * Gitlab
 * https://i.haza.website/

Steps to setup a site
Minimum set of requirements so you can connect with others in the indie web community.


 * Register domain
 * Hosting
 * Authentication
 * Twitter
 * Github
 * Add Content

Persuasive reasons to setup your own site

 * Own your own content independently of third party silos
 * Aggregate content from multiple sites to draw traffic to personal site
 * Keep all of your content in one location

Two ways to use the indie web

 * Post on your site and then publish on third party sites
 * Publish somewhere else first, then use third party APIs to pull into your own personal site


 * Negatives
 * If you're not on their site they will shut down
 * There is GDPR

Wants something as simple as Github pages to sign up and create content
 * Microblogging

Is Indie Web at scale a thing? Do we want to grow the indie web?
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 * The core of the indie web community is building things for themselves, but how do we create a user-friendly experience for a big audience
 * The number of people who have indie web sites who are non-technical is small
 * Interested to see how we can grow the indie web beyond technical people
 * Greg  will be using Known sites and Glitch with middle school and high school students
 * Teach the non technical to be technical
 * Come up with a simple way to set people up without reading the instructions, create a guided tutorial
 * Ben tried to do this with KNOWN

Ideas

 * Host photographs on your own personal site, take a small slice of the indie web, post your pics in a way that you have a full record in everything you ever took
 * people at the lego league challenge were blown away by ability to post videos and pics... Good idea
 * Connect with local art organizations. Many artists sick of Etsy/Instagram...Teach them to build their own