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It's for the intersection of people a) who want a blog and b) who want a website with a good design. Medium beat Svbtle to the punch, though.
Medium wants you to have a Twitter account.
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#25Open for everyone My first question is: "who is this for?" The interface, and experience look great. But who needs this? Who is pulling out their hair looking for a new hosted publishing platform that they don't control? Maybe this is a "hair-on-fire" (Patio11) problem for some folks - but I couldn't tell from the blog post. I think this is a mistake a lot of us make when we're marketing, writing about our products:…
I assume that this will be a Freemium product and I also think that the "pro" version will have some features that I would sooner or later need, at least that's my experience with other platforms I tested.
One example being Google's App engine, which turned out to be rather expensive compared to competitors and didn't justify that for me. Investing a lot of hours in a platform that you don't end up using is not that satisfying.
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#26Open for everyone My first question is: "who is this for?" The interface, and experience look great. But who needs this? Who is pulling out their hair looking for a new hosted publishing platform that they don't control? Maybe this is a "hair-on-fire" (Patio11) problem for some folks - but I couldn't tell from the blog post. I think this is a mistake a lot of us make when we're marketing, writing about our products:…
It's for the intersection of people a) who want a blog and b) who want a website with a good design. Medium beat Svbtle to the punch, though.
This is true of virtually every "good design" over the years. At the beginning people almost always thought it was superior in some way.
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#28I did not mean to give you a Kudo. I don't care for that button interface. Unless I can undo it, then I like it.
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#30Oh thank god! Before this, I had nowhere to post all my brilliant thoughts except medium, blogger, wordpress, posthaven, quora, facebook, google+, livejournal and myspace.