Why I Built Seriph

I loved when the web was open. Somewhere along the way it got complicated. You want comments on your blog? Here's a 200MB JavaScript bundle. You want email subscriptions? Here's an API key, a webhook, a database table, and three hours of your weekend. You want a contact form? That'll be $50/month. Static sites were supposed to be the answer. Fast, simple, yours. But then you need one interactive thing and suddenly you're back in backend land, spinning up servers for a comment box. Seriph is the missing piece. Comments, reactions, forms, subscriptions — the stuff every site needs but nobody wants to build. Drop in a component, done. Your site stays static. Your content stays yours. No vendor lock-in. No heavy frameworks. Just widgets that work. The open web isn't dead. It just needs better tools.