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

Re:Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter... by Groxx on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @12:35AM (#29077132)

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 might be fine, but it'd be nice if that link-popup searched your post titles or something) and probably a small bit of extra flexibility... but finding the balancing point between "feature-full" and "simple" is quite tough, as is keeping it fast. I'm pleasantly surprised with it as-is.

Any chance of custom domain support? I assume that would be a paid feature (it always is, I think that's reasonable), but it is nice to have that option. Also RSS.

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter... by colinarms on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:56AM (#29077577)

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 domain support and RSS - both features on the roadmap! Likely RSS first, as that's quite a bit easier to implement, and custom domain support shortly after that. (Custom domain support is probably the #1 feature request at the moment).

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter... by mholt on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:18AM (#29081620)

Please use Caddy for custom domains (a web server I wrote that excels at this): https://caddy.community/t/serving-tens-of-thousands-of-domai...

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter... by Groxx on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @06:30PM (#29088377)

I honestly do like 90% of my internet reading through RSS, so yeah, I think that's the more important one anyway :)

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter... by colinarms on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @01:49AM (#29091471)

I just implemented basic RSS functionality. There's now an "RSS" link at the bottom of all blog posts and pages.

Thanks again for the feedback!

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter... by bryans on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @06:56AM (#29079432)

I'd caution against asserting 200ms page loads and 99 Lighthouse scores -- you don't actually appear to be coming close to either of those metrics.

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter... by Zababa on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:38AM (#29080309)

Seconding this. Lighthouse on the vs-substack page gives a 82 on performance. That's a big difference, and is also under the 85 reported for Substack.

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter... by prox on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @04:40AM (#29078563)

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!

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter... by colinarms on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:03PM (#29180752)

Just circling back here - I launched custom domain support today (for a one-time fee of $50, you can unlock custom domains permanently for your blog).

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter... by colinarms on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:33AM (#29080941)

Custom domains are coming up real soon!

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter... by colinarms on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:03PM (#29180747)

Just circling back here - I launched custom domain support today (for a one-time fee of $50, you can unlock custom domains permanently for your blog).

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter... by urlwolf on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:29AM (#29081801)

Love this. Inter-post linking is a must, I use zim wiki to think and cannot live without wikifying everything :)

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