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Re: Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

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Post by colinarms »

stradiv wrote: post #37

Share to Facebook and Twitter buttons in blog posts are not working. The urls for sharing buttons are below. https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://papyrus... http://twitter.com/share?url=https://papyrus.so{router.asPat...

Thanks for the catch - this should be fixed now.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

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Post by Reebz »

olah_1 wrote: post #23

$5 per month is too much on your competing services. If you want to differentiate, you should offer an option that is less. At $5 per blog, I can’t justify subbing to more than… 2 at the most. Compare the value proposition to something like Spotify.

I think you have misunderstood. The $5/$7/$10 are suggested prices that you charge your subscribers.

The service is free and only takes a 5% of subscription fees when they are active.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

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Post by colinarms »

Mandatum wrote: post #35

I'm stoked for you OP - I wish there was a service that you could subscribe to when a SaaS product has existed and run okay for 2 years. Right now when I hear about something I use, I just set a calendar reminder for 18-24 months away. All the best OP! We need more services like this!

Thank you! Appreciate the kind words!

Re: Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

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Post by colinarms »

soniman wrote: post #40

This is a little off topic but I don't want to read a lot of text-heavy blogs that all look the same. Give me a little variety and some nice pictures to look at. By the way this looks nice and I'm going to check it out, too bad my Tumblr has 2500 poasts and no readers.

Thanks for the feedback. Customization is definitely on the roadmap, but nailing the reading/editing experience is higher priority for now.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

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Post by colinarms »

eitland wrote: post #29

Wow, this is seriously fast! Maybe you should provide more links to existing blogs somewhere? (e.g. something like https://read.write.as which aggregates public posts from blogs on write.as)

Thanks!

Yes, I've been meaning to do this - I haven't prioritized it yet because we have not had enough quality blogs on the platform to showcase, but after all the HN traffic I think this will change :)

Re: Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

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Post by colinarms »

prox wrote: post #34
colinarms wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you - appreciate all the feedback! I invested quite a bit into speed, and thankfully Next.js has a lot of great built-in support to make things fast - incremental static regeneration, link prefetching, image optimization, etc. For the editor bugs - thanks for highlighting, I filed a bug and definitely hoping to tackle this eventually. Agreed on the documentation as well - it's on my radar to improve. For custom…

I’ve been thinking about blogging for a while, and your offering is the first that makes me want to go ahead. Custom domain would be nice!

Custom domains are coming up real soon!
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