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postlight / liftoff

liftoff

🚀 Liftoff is a flexible static-site generator that pulls content from Airtable

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What it is

🚀 Liftoff is a flexible static-site generator that pulls content from Airtable

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-04-04 14:57:53 UTC to 2020-07-07 17:46:36 UTC.

012019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsApr 20192019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsNov 20192019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 2020

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Apr 20192019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC110
May 20192019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20192019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20192019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20192019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Sep 20192019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20192019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20192019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20192019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20202020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20202020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20202020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20202020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20202020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20202020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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alin23·Jul 7, 2020
Great idea and execution! I've been using Liftoff[1] with Airtable as a DIY solution for this and while it's been easy to set it up and deploy it on Netlify, I still had to resort to writing a custom watch for changes daemon and forking the repo for adjusting the components layout. I like that SheetUI has the things above built-in and more functionalities like adding buttons and a customisation UI. Is a custom-CSS feature going to be available anytime soon? It would be great to be able to add some original styling to a website. [1] https://github.com/postlight/liftoff
In Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages
bkfh·Aug 21, 2019Submission

Ask HN: What is the easiest way for a non-coder to deploy a simple CRUD website?

I'm pretty good with stitching together static HTML and CSS to build basic websites, but when it comes to adding CRUD capabilites, I struggle to find a simple way of doing this. Lately I fell in love with Netlify to easily bring static websites online. However to build a simple, extendable job site MVP, I'm now looking into either NetlifyCMS -or- Liftoff to pull content from Airtable (https://github.com/postlight/liftoff) However, before I go heads down and try to make all this work, I wanted to see if there is any other way that I'm missing to build a simple website with CRUD capabilities? I looked into Sheet2Site but realized that I can only use pre-defined templates which rules out this option. Having a my customized design is important.
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