The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website
Perhaps there is an opportunity to create a way to self-host static websites via people's own smartphones.  Bandwidth costs for most sites must be tiny.<p>The business models of website/page-builder platforms are based on gathering a long tail of small businesses, and then selling the audience attention via ad networks and data mining.<p>Looking at the ecosystem from a distance, it's creating financial value, but there are technical means to provide the same <i>actual business value</i> in cheaper and more privacy-preserving ways.<p>(By "actual business value" I mean that a person can view the menu at a local cafe in their area -- a valuable interaction for both parties -- without that lookup being intermediated by a platform and N different third parties where a kind of "shadow market value" is extracted)