Quotes

A simple, self-hosted quotes website built with Go, HTMX, and Tailwind.

About

My friend Guney started collecting quotes in 2006 during our IRC discussions on Freenode (#kanal and #turklug).

When he decided to shut down his quotes site, he backed up the entire database and gave it to me in 2015.

I’ve been storing that database ever since. It contains valuable memories from friends from nearly twenty years ago.

I thought it would be a shame to let it go to waste, so I decided to create a simple website to host the quotes.

Of course, I'm not sharing the entire database content here, but I thought it would be nice to have a simple website to browse the quotes.

Features

• Browse latest, top, and random quotes
• Add new quotes via a simple form
• Upvote or downvote existing quotes
• Responsive UI with Tailwind and dynamic interactions powered by HTMX

Usage

Update configuration (port, DB connection) in .env (.env.example is provided as a template).

cp .env.example .env

Note: The database should be created and seeded with the quotes.sql file.

Run the server:

go build
./quotes

Visit http://localhost:8080 in your browser.

To launch with Docker Compose:

docker compose up --build