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Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint (https://tomotama.com)

139 points by tobr 6 days ago | 81 comments | View on ycombinator

aleksandre_dev 1 day ago |

The best part of the no-build, small-footprint approach is longevity: no dependency rot, nothing to maintain, and it'll still open and run in ten years. We've half-forgotten that "view source and hack it" is how a lot of us learned the web in the first place. Good to see tools that lean back into that.

lioeters 1 day ago |

> kiki was built around the idea that the web took a wrong turn a couple of decades ago. HTML was supposed to be simple and straightforward

Hear, hear. We need more of this kind of courage to start over from first principles.

dspillett 1 day ago |

> kiki is shareware.

Now that is a blast from the past.

Is much else distributed that way these days?

hypersoar 1 day ago |

This is a tangent to this post, but...

I happen to have a cat named Kiki who looks rather like the mascot for this project. Her health is failing, now. I just spent the night on my living room floor next to her. I'll, likely have to put her down, today.

I might use this project to make a memorial page for her.

https://ibb.co/7dRCnWrp https://ibb.co/1GWwDKLY

smusamashah 2 days ago |

Should have been written with bouba philosophy.

unkeptbarista 2 days ago |

Kiki's themes can be edited to suit one's personal tastes. The theme .css files are about 120 lines long.

markandrewj 1 day ago |

Hello, neat project. I am also from Edmonton area. I wonder if we have talked previously, in the the late 90s I ran a local BBS system with my colleague.

moffers 2 days ago |

I wish we could get back to a “mom and pop” software market. Itch.io feels like it’s doing a lot of work for indie software that used to just be everywhere and easy to stumble onto.

binary0010 1 day ago |

"It's built so that if something looks wrong, you can change it yourself without spending hours reading tutorials and watching coding videos"

Does anyone do this? Every none coder I know just has llms build everything for them - can't imagine why they'd be looking up coding tutorials for a homepage.

TazeTSchnitzel 1 day ago |

That must be the first time in a very long time that I've seen something claim to support PHP 4.

dallen33 1 day ago |

PHP was and still is the best.

theragra 2 days ago |

Reminds me of a time when my homepage (before lj blog) was using cmsimple. BTW, c still exists. Not sure if it is still "simple" tho.

https://www.cmsimple.org/en/

xydac 1 day ago |

Oh ! i cannot see myself doing php again, loved the language and have some good memories too but that me was 10 years ago

zuzululu 1 day ago |

that font color is impossible to read on the black background

I'm guessing this is made for a specific audience who dig this type of UI

brettermeier 2 days ago |

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sneak 1 day ago |

The design philosophy says you should be able to repair your own tools, but this is closed source proprietary software.

Cute page, but does not walk the walk.