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Did you read the article? The entire point of building this was to solve a problem for myself. If anyone else wants to use it, that's also fine with me, but the goal of this was not to monetize this nor turn it into a serious project or business.

Do you work at Pangram? Most of your comments are links to Pangram and an encouragement not to waste time.

Yup - we're using rich-markdown-editor for the content editor. Full support for code and syntax highlighting. GitHub: https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor, editor demo: https://rich-markdown-editor-demo.onrender.com/?path=/story/...

Another Medium alternative is Papyrus: https://papyrus.so.

Privacy-first, simplicity and speed are the core tenets. Export posts at any time, send posts via newsletters, and no feature-bloat.

Disclaimer: I built Papyrus because I was fed up with Medium, Wordpress and Substack.

Great article, Gabriel!

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. Thanks!

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).

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).

I'm getting a 504 Gateway Timeout when attempting to access your site.

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!

Awesome - thank you!

1. I originally registered https://papyrus.dev, with the original idea being a newsletter aimed at developers. I pivoted to be more broader, and with that, changed the TLD to .so. I haven't gotten around to setting up mail on the new TLD yet, so still using the old one for everything.

2. I'm not sure yet. One of the selling points is no third-party trackers, so I'm not sure how readers will feel if some of their blogs started tracking them.

3. Thanks for the feedback, and I appreciate the mockup! Agreed that section can be clearer - I've added this to the backlog.

Custom domains are coming up real soon!

Agreed - they were a great inspiration for us.

Thanks!

Yes, I've been meaning to do this - I haven't prioritized it yet because we have not had enough quality blogs on the platform to showcase, but after all the HN traffic I think this will change :)

Thanks for the feedback. Customization is definitely on the roadmap, but nailing the reading/editing experience is higher priority for now.

Thank you! Appreciate the kind words!

Thanks for the catch - this should be fixed now.

Thanks a lot, Steven! Appreciate it!

Thanks!