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Re: Ask HN: Favourite blogs?

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Post by vishnu_ks »

I am building https://diff.blog, an aggregator of developer and engineering blogs. My mission is to solve the disoverability problem of self hosted blogs.

It's hard for bloggers with self hosted blogs to get discovered and reach a big audience. So a lot of them end up moving to a platform like Medium which gives them the audience. But they in turn give up their identity and content. diff.blog aims to fix that by solving the discoverabilty problem of self hosted blogs. diff.blog is not anywhere near in terms of the audience size of Medium at the moment. But it has been growing steadily since I launched it an year before. Hopefully it will come close one day :)

Re: Ask HN: Favourite blogs?

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Post by dector »

vishnu_ks wrote: post #51

I am building https://diff.blog , an aggregator of developer and engineering blogs. My mission is to solve the disoverability problem of self hosted blogs. It's hard for bloggers with self hosted blogs to get discovered and reach a big audience. So a lot of them end up moving to a platform like Medium which gives them the audience. But they in turn give up their identity and content. diff.blog aims to fix that by sol…

That's a very good idea! Are you going to monetize your project or (maybe) open-source code and/or data?

Re: Ask HN: Favourite blogs?

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Post by vishnu_ks »

dector wrote: post #54
vishnu_ks wrote: post #51

I am building https://diff.blog , an aggregator of developer and engineering blogs. My mission is to solve the disoverability problem of self hosted blogs. It's hard for bloggers with self hosted blogs to get discovered and reach a big audience. So a lot of them end up moving to a platform like Medium which gives them the audience. But they in turn give up their identity and content. diff.blog aims to fix that by sol…

That's a very good idea! Are you going to monetize your project or (maybe) open-source code and/or data?

Yes. I do want to monetize the project so that there is incentive for me to keep working on it for a long time. My current plan is to allow companies to post job openings on the site and charge them for that. I think it's a win win for both the readers and the companies.

I want to open source the project at some point. My full time job is working for an open source project. Open source projects require a lot of time and attention from the maintainers to make it sucessfull. I am not ready for that yet. But hopefully oneday.

Re: Ask HN: Favourite blogs?

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Post by gandutraveler »

klenwell wrote: post #22

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Thanks for sharing this. As someone who is transitioning from an IC to manager, I found several helpful posts. This transition is the most stressful thing I have experienced in my career. Do you have any other recommendations blogs/books ?

Re: Ask HN: Favourite blogs?

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Post by sbmthakur »

vishnu_ks wrote: post #51

I am building https://diff.blog , an aggregator of developer and engineering blogs. My mission is to solve the disoverability problem of self hosted blogs. It's hard for bloggers with self hosted blogs to get discovered and reach a big audience. So a lot of them end up moving to a platform like Medium which gives them the audience. But they in turn give up their identity and content. diff.blog aims to fix that by sol…

That's a nice service. Do you plan to launch an Android app for the same? I have been using FinBloggers, which serves as a one stop solution for me for finance related blogs. I am searching a similar app for development blogs.
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