Someone shared this with me today. They said: “yeah when I read this I thought of your exact thing lol”. So it turns out that I am on to something. Let’s take a look at how well I am meeting Andrej’s ideal blogging platform:
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Writing
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✅ in markdown
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✅ with full WYSIWYG, not just split view (think: Typora)
- I am using https://tiptap.dev/
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super easy to copy paste and add images
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not yet, I have been itching to code this.
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tiptap does have an image thing, which should be easy to add, but there are some more things to think through (where do the images get uploaded to?)
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Deploying
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✅ renders into static pages (think: Jekyll)
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✅ super simple, super minimal html with no bloat
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⌛ hosting at a nice url
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I have my site hosted at a nice url, breadchris.com, but what is a normal user’s experience?
- I want to give you: you.justshare.io
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What if people want to bring their own domain?
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What if people could buy their custom domain through the site?
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Maintaining
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⌛ analytics (think: Google Analytics)
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I started to write the code, but it isn’t done.
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My goal is to make it look like simpleanalytics
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❌ comments section (think: Disqus)
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TL; DR: I think there is much to explore here that I haven’t thought through yet.
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I personally really like the clap feature of medium (their UI hides the feature very well so not many people use it, imo)
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I want to let people leave full length responses, but I want to give the author tools to decide to publish them or not.
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Ownership
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✅ full export, access/ownership of the raw files to perpetuity should the need arise to move elsewhere.
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My blog posts get written to a log that I include in LogSeq.
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The database can be sqlite, so all your content is saved into a database
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The code is all open source
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Oh, and it runs as a single static executable. Not that anyone cares about that ;) we love node_modules
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