pages-gem
A simple Ruby Gem to bootstrap dependencies for setting up and maintaining a local Jekyll environment in sync with GitHub Pages (by github)
neocities
Neocities.org - the web site. Yep, the backend is open source! (by neocities)
| pages-gem | neocities | |
|---|---|---|
| 621 | 297 | |
| 1,853 | 1,589 | |
| 0.2% | 2.3% | |
| 5.0 | 9.1 | |
| 4 months ago | 5 days ago | |
| Ruby | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
pages-gem
Posts with mentions or reviews of pages-gem.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-19.
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Show HN: GitHub as Blogging Engine
Doesn't GitHub already support blogging/blogs out of the box? It also has a Web Editor / IDE (VSCode) built-in. Hit the `.` on any of your GitHub pages/code/files.
https://pages.github.com
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Sonoran Stillness
GitHub Pages
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Publishing in Arabic, Hebrew, or Persian?
Because of the lack of right-to-left (RTL) support I'd probably not use DEV to publish in any of the RTL languages. That is Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian. Instead I'd use one of the Static Site Generators that support RTL and GitHub pages or GitLab pages for free hosting. The only cost is the domain name, if you'd like to have your own.
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How To Connect a Squarespace Domain to a Website Hosted on GitHub Pages
A working site hosted on GitHub Pages
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The Carpet feature that nobody will use
The documentation is built with MkDocs and hosted on GitHub Pages. You can browse the complete documentation at carpet.jerolba.com.
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Build a Personal Portfolio Website (2-Minute Tutorial)
Upload your folder to Netlify, GitHub Pages, or Vercel — and boom, your portfolio is online!
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Host Lovable.dev Project on github pages 😺
Here is the link to my portfolio, generated by lovable.dev and hosted on GitHub Pages
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How to build a personal blog without paying a single euro
GitHub Pages: Host your site directly from a GitHub repository.
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5 of the Best Static Website Hosting Services
GitHub Pages - platform provided by GitHub, the leading company that provides source code hosting. The service is well-known among many software developers.
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Setup a blog with Hugo and Github Pages
It was long my desire to write a blog with stuff that interests me. Lately i was studying Golang and i came across Hugo which is a really nice and fast site generation utility. This was a great opportunity to start my own blog by using Hugo and Github Pages in order to host it. Why?
neocities
Posts with mentions or reviews of neocities.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-25.
- Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites
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GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet
If you miss the quirky, personal touch of early web pages, NeoCities (https://neocities.org) might just bring back those memories, with a similar DIY ethos and vintage design.
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Make Your Own Website: A beginner's guide
I always like mentioning neocities in this context:
https://neocities.org/
It's one if those gems in the Internet
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Free Web Hosting Area
Neocities might be a better option for those that are looking for something like this
https://neocities.org/
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Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting
If I were running fastly, I'd donate bandwidth so that you would implement turn-key, bring-your-api-key fastly support to your open source setup!
As for other cdns - I remember https://neocities.org/ built their own cdn - but I couldn't immediately find a blog post about the cdn, or something related in their GitHub (unless every node runs part of it, which would make sense, I guess).
- My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
- Get your own piece of internet real estate in 5 minutes
- Ask HN: Looking for Web 1.0 Community
- Neocities
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The woman who coined the expression 'Surfing the Internet'
You may really enjoy Neocities [0] it is full if websites that you explore.
[0] https://neocities.org/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pages-gem and neocities you can also consider the following projects:
quickstart-android - Firebase Quickstart Samples for Android
barinsta - Open-source alternative Instagram client on Android. More maintainers needed!
starter-workflows - Accelerating new GitHub Actions workflows
webamp - Winamp 2 reimplemented for the browser
Jekyll - :globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby
projectm - projectM - Cross-platform Music Visualization Library. Open-source and Milkdrop-compatible.