Day 19 - Host your OWN website (n.)⚡️
Completely free. Anyone can do in 2 mins. (⚡️BetterFriend Project Day 8 - 38)
Hosting [hohsting]
noun.
: to provide or arrange the venue for or receive guests at (a dinner, reception, etc.).
: (of a computer) to store, maintain, or control (a database, application, printer, etc.) to which other computers have access through a network connection.
: to maintain or control and provide access to (a website, email service, etc.) via the internet.
Quick Recap:
Stay in touch w/ Friends
We are building a simple v0.1 of BetterFriend app by using WhatsApp Chatbot to remind people their loved one’s birthday with AI.
Back in the day
I still remember the day when we had to use Wordpress / Squarespace / Wix where we had to pay $10-30 / month to just have a website.
Well those days are gone. Vercel, launched in 2015, has changed a lot of this through their free-hosting. They’ve also created a vibe coding tool called v0 which I will talk more about, but for the topic of hosting, I think it’s important for all of us to just go and do it once.
For the 1st time ever, I recorded a 2 min long tutorial, edited it and uploaded here. This took me WAY too long to do:
I used a tool called Tella (New users get 20% off for 3 months).
Now that I’ve had my first one, more videos like this to come. Soon I’ll host them all on the Youtube, but in the meantime, check here:
Long story short:
We cloned a template from Vercel to Github, hosted on Vercel, changed the domain to:
It’s live!
Don’t just read it - go do it yourself. It’s like riding a bike. You do it once, you will never forget it again.
See ya tomorrow!
(⚡️BetterFriend Project Day 8 - 38)