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About 20 years ago I built Instant Update CMS, a PHP/MySQL CMS written in CodeIgniter with no template engine. Your HTML was the template: mark an element with an id, open the page in a browser, edit in place. It never went anywhere (I was a kid with no idea how to ship or monetize it), but it got a second life as an open-source repo and a few people actually ran it. Now I'm trying again with Statix (https://statix.website), a spiritual successor built in Laravel that works differently. Instead of rendering pages at request time, Statix is just an editor. You connect FTP(S), SFTP, S3 or GitHub, add one <script> tag (bookmarklet, live editor on a subdomain, or a button that injects it into the file), and edit the page in the browser. Saving writes the change back into your original HTML file. No runtime dependency: if Statix goes down, your site doesn't notice. Beyond plain in-place editing there are three things I missed from the IU days, all of which end up as plain static HTML in your files: - Global regions: edit a footer or contact block once, and it's written into every page that uses it. - Dynamic menus: built from your page tree, with the active item baked in at save time (no JS). - Repeatable content: blog-style lists, galleries, team cards. One element is the template, items are cloned from it. I'm fairly sure nobody will use it. Who has hand-written static HTML sites in 2026? Maybe AI-generated sites handed to non-technical owners, or agencies that don't want a call for every typo. But I had to make it for myself. It's basically a POC so it's completely free while I build it. If you have a static site and a spare 10 minutes, I'd love honest feedback, including "this is pointless". But the fact is I updated my ancient personal web site using Statix for the first time after a couple of years xD