Show HN: QuickServ • Dangerously user-friendly web server

• quickserv

  7 317 0.0 Go

  Dangerously user-friendly web server for quick prototyping and hackathons

• quickserv-examples

  3 9 0.0 C

  Example applications to run with QuickServ

I made this because I hate web development.

Don't get me wrong, I love that once something is on the web, anyone can effortlessly use it on their phone or computer – my most successful projects have been web apps. But I hate that you need to be knowledgeable about both the latest developments and 20 years of historical context to build anything.

QuickServ is inspired by CGI of old: requests are passed on standard input, and responses are passed on standard output. Unlike CGI, QuickServ is designed to work without the user ever touching the command line.

Using this model, QuickServ makes it easy to build web apps, regardless of experience. It delivers ease of use at the expense of speed and security, which makes it powerful for prototyping and hackathons. Check out the examples to see how effortlessly it can be used to bring bad ideas to life. Such bad ideas include (but are not limited to) web applications built in languages like bash and x86 assembly.

https://github.com/jstrieb/quickserv-examples

Since the main goal of the project is usability, that is the main aspect of the project on which I am looking for feedback. Are the examples clear? Are the error messages clear? Is it easy to set up and install? That kind of thing.

Thanks in advance for taking a look!

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