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I’m working on my indie blogging platform, Pagecord ( https://pagecord.com ). It started as a fun side project but is gaining decent traction right now - I’m convinced there’s a bl…

Check out https://bearblog.dev/discover and https://pagecord.com/spotlight . Indie blogging is alive and well!

Substack provides RSS too which is nice

I wouldn’t say it’s dead. Rather, niche. IndieWeb blogging products are alive and well. Google definitely scrapes and ranks (my blog gets good juice) and there are and increasing n…

RSS is a wonder, but given that it removes any opportunity for ads and monetisation you can see why the powers that be at Google might want to kill it. Still, it lives on but only …

haha yes! i built feedgrab.net but once it did what i wanted, i stopped building it. it just works. doesn't really make RSS cool again, but it does the job for me

Blogs on indie platforms like Bear and Pagecord get promoted in the Discover (and Spotlight, on Pagecord) feeds which definitely drives traffic

I agree! That's why I built Pagecord. Like Substack it's a blog with a mailing list, but it's also your personal website (pages, for example) with a custom domain. Also, source ava…

It's about a popular security tech product! Sure there's a political angle as to _why_ the person has ditched it, but loads of HN news posts do. Not sure why it's flagged

I've been recommended https://airvpn.org . Any opinions?

Hi. As the Pagecord community has grown, people increasingly asked for a "discover" list so they could connect with other independent bloggers on the platform. Spotlight is the res…

Half the price of https://www.ubicloud.com/use-cases/postgresql ?

that's not managed. that's just running PostresQL on a server, which is what I do already. I mean managed like https://www.ubicloud.com/use-cases/postgresql

yeah that's what i do, but i kinda would like managed where i don't have to think about it ;)

Hetzner could win back some of that love if they release the long-rumoured managed Postgres offering at a price that undercuts most of the competition.

Isn't his entire point on this short talk that one can become very wealthy by creating a product that people love and want to tell their friends about? I think it's also a nudge to…

Pagecord! A personal website and blog... that you'll actually keep updated. It's an all-in-one, open source blogging/site analytics/newsletter platform that takes privacy seriously…

2 hours after I fork out for Codex Pro… :-|