Show HN: Renderproxy – Make your app crawlable without a line of code

The idea for Renderproxy came to me while at work. Our website is completely written in React and was having some SEO issues. Single Page Apps have a hard time being crawled by search engine bots, and one way to fix this is to implement dynamic rendering (https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/dynamic-ren...), such that bots get served up a pre-rendered version of your site. Google recommends this.

Looking online, I was hoping to find something like Renderproxy, but all the solutions I found required me to run my own server, or switch hosting providers. We ended up implementing our own custom solution.

With this solution, all you need to do is sign up for Renderproxy, and change your DNS settings.

Great idea, it can be a real hassle to set up SSR. Is there a chance that it would be considered cloaking by Google, because you're serving a page from a different IP to the crawler?

Took me five mins to get working, seems like a solid way to save a week or so of work that you'd otherwise have to do to get dynamic rendering working. Seems promising.

Great idea for still having a custom domain without having to pay for premium features on website builders