Show HN: A minimalist (brutalist?) website for sharing all your links
(lynx.boo)303 points by TravisPeacock 10 days ago
Do you remember the internet of the early 2000s? Neat single function websites that let you be creative and customize your spaces and weren't setting out to be the next major conglomerate (or to be bought by them).
I'm building a series of websites that have simple concepts but too many of the players have tried to make their product so big. I also used to live in a very rural area so my goal is to make websites that load fast even on very slow internet. I'm starting with Lynx.boo.
A linktree style website that lets you fully customize your CSS (and adds a bunch of classes to your links to help style them easier as well as very non-restrictive CSS you can do html{display:none;} if you really want to) and the features aren't locked behind yet-another monthly fee. I'll be adding analytic support when I figure out the best way to do it.
Also there isn't a user system (per se), you just confirm changes by email but you never register for the site and you won't be spammed. Please feel free to try to break the CSS (or anything) as much as you want. I think it's fairly robust but I would love any security vulnerabilities you see.
Thank you for your time!
Instead of brutalist, I'd call it "NASA Revivalist" as it is very reminiscent of the 1970s NASA graphic design style manual[0].
Having personal experience designing in the context of / restoring brutalist architecture (the kind people live and work* in), I submit with gratitude that this tool misses some key aspects of the style:
1. No concrete used in construction, and therefore no concrete smell, aka "eau de mid-century Americana."**
2. No sense of impending arrest by secret police around every corner.
3. Does not require regular pressure washing to avoid looking like a set-piece from a post-apocalyptic horror movie.
* for certain values of "live" and "work" ** sans cigarettes
0 <https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/nasa_graphic...>