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Re: Show HN: I just launched a new blogging platform

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Post by apsurd »

Geee wrote: post #30
itmag wrote: post #20

Speaking of new blogging platforms, there hasn't been a lot of discussion on HN about SETT. Why not?

It seems to be just http://sett.com . There seems to be some interesting ideas. I just wonder why there isn't example blog even for the company itself.

Agreed, it's interesting but I have no way to gauge it. There's no obvious publication date so for all I know it's 5 years old (and not very popular). In contrast, if it was just launched I would be much more willing to try it out in spite of there been no clear examples of successful communities.

This may very well be revolutionary but my time is limited. Google searches for "sett blog" return nothing. #sett on twitter is more nothingness. It's ironic: I am not heavily engaged in social media at all, but turns I need social proof in situations like these.

Re: Show HN: I just launched a new blogging platform

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Post by JackWebbHeller »

citricsquid wrote: post #7

There is a huge difference between simple and lacking in features, yours falls into the latter category. Something like Tumblr (although full of features) is "simple" because at its core is the ability to do everything you need for a blog to do in a few clicks, but if you need to do more complicated things you can, that makes tumblr simple. Yours is literally 2 features, creation of blogs and making posts. I don't se…

> "I don't see where the market for your platform is, if I want this why don't I just use HTML files on shared hosting?"

Because 99% of people don't know how to do this?

Re: Show HN: I just launched a new blogging platform

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Post by arguesalot »

On topic: this will probably not roll as-is. How about a $1/month fee (or even $1/year would be enough i think)? How about pay-to-read posts?

Off topic, since a blog is the "hello world" of web development for quite a few years now: how many of you have created blogging-related web apps? I 'll start with http://instablogg.com

Re: Show HN: I just launched a new blogging platform

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Post by Katelyn »

ers35 wrote: post #28

I signed up and chose "www.brytter.com" for my blog subdomain as a joke. Brytter may have given me the ability to edit "blog.brytter.com" See http://i.imgur.com/efXdt.png I have logged out of my account since I do not want to cause any harm. Please fix.

You aren't authorized to [save] any changes you make. I hit that page, too, but when I tried to save changes, it threw this at me: 'You are not authorized to access this page.' http://i.imgur.com/nbMLF.png

Re: Show HN: I just launched a new blogging platform

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Post by faramarz »

Work with a designer to give it the elegance that it needs and I believe you're on to something here. What you describe in the opening paragraph resonates true to almost everyone who has tried blogging only to give up after a few weeks. (I pay 7.99/mnth to host my MovaleType blog that has stale content from years ago..)

You did a great job convincing me I need something to fix it.

Increase the quality of the design by attention to detail (the colour is great.. find the right reading font, line-height, buttons, fields styles etc) and make the experience *elegant"and I think that's when you'll see adoption.

Re: Show HN: I just launched a new blogging platform

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Post by tadhgk »

I don't think the world needs another super-simple blog tool. Posterous, for example, does everything you've said here.

What would be interesting is a blog platform that can do more to make the reading experience more pleasurable, like really nice fontography and so on.

Re: Show HN: I just launched a new blogging platform

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Post by daintynews »

If you're aiming for simple, then the site you just launched would be it. However, Posterous, Tumblr and Blogger already has that covered since their templates are easily customizable. Apart from that, googling free "site" templates can already lead you to a number of templates, and I'm pretty sure an elegant template can be found in at least one of the sited generated.

But this thing has potential, if you can just market it better. Looking at the site right now, I don't think it's clear who your target market is.

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