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

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

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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.

This.

I imagine there will be months when I don't write anything. Why would somebody still subscribe.

Looks stellar btw.

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

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post #32

React & a framework on top can be called minimal for a blogging platform? A blog entry[0] requires the transfer of 3.29MB (2.09MB of images with most which don't look web-optimised). [0]: https://papyrus.so/@PapyrusBlog/how-we-reduced-next.js-page-...

If using a framework was really needed here, probably that Svelte would have made more sense as it offers much lighter pages.

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

#34
post #16

Impressively fast (honestly, that's stellar work), slightly buggy in the editor (focus is sometimes hard to determine, triple-click doesn't always select a paragraph, etc) but I assume that'll get cleared up eventually, and it's pretty good looking across the board. I might actually use this. Simple and effective and not full of crap. It could use a little bit more documentation (inter-post linking how? hardcoding mi…

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!

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

#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!

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

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post #31
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.

This. I imagine there will be months when I don't write anything. Why would somebody still subscribe. Looks stellar btw.

Maybe an option to pay for X posts instead of per month.

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

#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.
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