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Is Medium still the place to publish high-impact articles?

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Re: Is Medium still the place to publish high-impact articles?

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Post by billconan »

muzani wrote: post #30
billconan wrote: post #2

May I take this opportunity to recommend Epiphany, a new blogging experience tailored for tech content? https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=2684bc94f9fcb9ffe637ebfbeba2... Epiphany is a crossover of Jupyter notebook and Medium.com, Not only can you write text, you can also program on it, to create interactive examples, see: https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=4c411b8a0b5207739f97e787d2af... In addition to interactivity, Epip…

What's the catch? I can't find a pricing page. This looks like something that could be potentially more expensive than Ghost.

I want to make an ebook marketplace. the income of the platform will be from ebook sales. If you don't want to sell your blog content as books, you won't be charged.

Re: Is Medium still the place to publish high-impact articles?

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Post by guenter-chao »

billconan wrote: post #31
muzani wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the catch? I can't find a pricing page. This looks like something that could be potentially more expensive than Ghost.

I want to make an ebook marketplace. the income of the platform will be from ebook sales. If you don't want to sell your blog content as books, you won't be charged.

I don’t think anyone is willing to pay for it nowadays, because now people think that you should be obligated to produce content to educate him and entertain him. However, most of the other parties are not willing to pay if they donate freely. Though someone's class is paid, People want to say that there are other free podcasts...

So it’s really hard for the average person to charge before becoming a celebrity.

Re: Is Medium still the place to publish high-impact articles?

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Post by sharma_pradeep »

billconan wrote: post #2

May I take this opportunity to recommend Epiphany, a new blogging experience tailored for tech content? https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=2684bc94f9fcb9ffe637ebfbeba2... Epiphany is a crossover of Jupyter notebook and Medium.com, Not only can you write text, you can also program on it, to create interactive examples, see: https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=4c411b8a0b5207739f97e787d2af... In addition to interactivity, Epip…

I'm going to try it out and share on my twitter if I don't forget about it by next weekend

Btw check your page load time

Re: Is Medium still the place to publish high-impact articles?

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Post by billconan »

guenter-chao wrote: post #33
billconan wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to make an ebook marketplace. the income of the platform will be from ebook sales. If you don't want to sell your blog content as books, you won't be charged.

I don’t think anyone is willing to pay for it nowadays, because now people think that you should be obligated to produce content to educate him and entertain him. However, most of the other parties are not willing to pay if they donate freely. Though someone's class is paid, People want to say that there are other free podcasts... So it’s really hard for the average person to charge before becoming a celebrity.

I basically want it to be the udemy for books.

You don’t need to write an entire book. the bar is too high for that. You collaborate with others. Each writes one chapter (as a blog). And the blogs can be organized into a book. I have implemented a collaboration workflow.

Marketplace is hard. You need the network effect. I know.

But this platform is meaningful to me, I need it. A few others told me the same.

Re: Is Medium still the place to publish high-impact articles?

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Post by billconan »

sharma_pradeep wrote: post #34
billconan wrote: post #2

May I take this opportunity to recommend Epiphany, a new blogging experience tailored for tech content? https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=2684bc94f9fcb9ffe637ebfbeba2... Epiphany is a crossover of Jupyter notebook and Medium.com, Not only can you write text, you can also program on it, to create interactive examples, see: https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=4c411b8a0b5207739f97e787d2af... In addition to interactivity, Epip…

I'm going to try it out and share on my twitter if I don't forget about it by next weekend Btw check your page load time

Thank you for the feedback. Speed is very important.

I’m trying to optimize that. But it’s not that easy for a complex site.

I also need to consider my budget, because it is not funded yet.

But yes, optimizing performance is my highest priority.

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