$9.99 a month apparently for hosting with rss and a branded url? Without a much more expensive email component, I don't see the value
Show HN: Sora, Personal Publishing Platform
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#12Looks great, but for me to start using it I need to be able to set my own username and url
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#13$9.99 a month apparently for hosting with rss and a branded url? Without a much more expensive email component, I don't see the value
Subscription unlocks all the functions you can't use in demo mode. Once you subscribe you'll have access to all present and future collection types, image upload and daily statistics.
Please remember that Sora is (and will remain) completely ad-free, and it was built by only a few people. We aren't a big company (yet ;) and we aren't vc-backed.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Okay, I still don’t understand what Sora actually is. That is, it’s not clear what type of product or service or software this is, and which problems of existing solutions exactly you’re addressing. It would be helpful to have a bunch of “it’s like x, but avoiding problem y by doing z”.
Take a look at the page! After that, it's been all clear for me.
I did. It’s not at all clear to me.
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#15$9.99 a month apparently for hosting with rss and a branded url? Without a much more expensive email component, I don't see the value
Subscription unlocks all the functions you can't use in demo mode. Once you subscribe you'll have access to all present and future collection types, image upload and daily statistics. Please remember that Sora is (and will remain) completely ad-free, and it was built by only a few people. We aren't a big company (yet ;) and we aren't vc-backed.
My personal blog costs me about $1.30 a month, including my image cdn.
Why is your software worth $100+ a year to me? I can go with Ghost and save $1 a month over your price.
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#16How does this compare to something like bear blog?
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#17You want me to sign up and own my content/audience? No, thanks. These times are long over and there are hundreds of similar services. For publishing online, I would only ever consider self-hosted options where I truly own both my content and audience. I'm tired of these platforms.
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#19-Forever- is never true unless your offering is open source. 9/10 startups die and I will not pay for a service unless I have an path to migrate to my own server if the service goes under.
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#200. How does this compare to Fediverse-based solutions, such as Write.Freely for articles, Pixelfed for graphics, Mastodon or Pleroma or Misskey for microblogging? Do you plan on supporting ActivityPub for federation? 1. What are your funding plans? If you plan on being free, what sort of user data will you be selling to pay for your costs? 2a. You mention on the bottom that Sora is Forever: "We're building Sora becau…
0: We're going to support ActivityPub at some point this year. Also monitoring all the other protocols popped up recently. 1: Won't sell any data, ever. Bootstrapped for now, user funded once we scaled up. We might temporary suspend signups at a point to ensure uninterrupted service. 2a: Good callout, will update the site with future plans! 2b: We're actively working on making content exportable, so you'll be able to…
> 1: Won't sell any data, ever.
Until someone buys the company, and the new owner sells the data. We have all heard this before.