We'll outlast that ad-ridden AI blog you saw on Flippa.

We'll outlast that ad-ridden AI blog you saw on Flippa. Well, hopefully...

What's Flippa?

Flippa is a place for buying & selling websites, and there are plenty of sites listed there that aren't built to last. After the sale, it's only a matter of time before some dependency mysteriously breaks. It's like watching the bumpers fall off of that old car you bought in alleged excellent condition.

Those sites are often overstuffed with automated content, ads, and affiliate links.

First, posts are written & published by AI at regular intervals, sometimes completely unmonitored. Next, affiliate links are scattered throughout the pages, to promote products listed on major online marketplaces in exchange for some of the potential profit. Finally, advertisements are crammed into every available crevice in a desperate attempt to squeeze out revenue - often at the reader's expense.

What we do

Tell the Web is different. We don't overstuff our pages with advertisements - we show just one, right at the bottom of the page. We don't interrupt the writing to place ads. We operate a straightforward, hand-typed, hand-coded website. Is it perfect? Absolutely not. Is it going to outlast those lousy, soulless websites? We believe so.

In addition to being hand-coded, our website doesn't rely on any Content Management System (CMS). This does have its downsides, but one major upside is portability. We can hop around from web host to host and still be user-ready in seconds. There are no Wordpress plugins to set up and maintain, or anything of that nature. With less infrastructure required to serve our pages, our hosting costs remain relatively low.

Our website even works the same way offline as it does online.

As for the limitations, we do miss out on the easy standardisation that a CMS provides. On most platforms, content exists separately from structure, making it trivial to push out site-wide changes through a single template. Our website, by contrast, comprises hundreds of self-contained documents, each containing the same familiar structure. We keep this manageable by finding a structure that's future-proof - and sticking to it.

The beauty of Tell the Web is that it's built to last, and that's more valuable than any listing could be.