Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by milleniall on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:19AM
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I dont use Bear Blog, but i love the blogs on that platform.
It is what the old internet used to be.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by yyyyddmm on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @11:23AM
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Hi,
first of all congratulations, it is a service I love and I follow some of the blogs hosted by you.
I've always thought about wanting to start a mini blogging platform similar to yours but I've always been stopped by this: how do you moderate the content? if someone posts something illegal, how does it work? if illicit messages or photos are posted, of whatever form, isn't it a big deal to get out and let the police know it's not your fault? is a simple disclaimer of reponsibility enough?
thank you very much!
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by user2147483647 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @12:14PM
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They have a pretty efficient manual review process. https://docs.bearblog.dev/review-process/
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by rasmus1610 on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @03:19PM
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I really love bear blog, I've seen it several times now on HN. But how do you earn money from it? Donations?
edit: nvm. I saw the paid upgrade feature :)
It's been running for over 4 years with about 10k active blogs. I'm the sole founder and maintainer. I write about it at https://herman.bearblog.dev
It pays me an above average salary and is mostly unaffected by the recent financial trends. I have however been dealing with a lot more AI generated backlink spam since ChatGPT hit the internet.