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by lowdose 2247 days ago
This guy spends $285 per month on his website and calls himself the smart blogger. Im aware renting a domain is $10 per year. I was talking about the infra to actually produce content with 20% of the convenience of a medium blog. Take the cost of lost opportunities in account and your first year blogging costs $10k.

https://smartblogger.com/blog-budget/
2 comments
hddherman 2246 days ago
Converting everything you do to monetary terms is not a mindset I recommend having. It might make sense for some decisions, but everything does not have to be about money.

If by the end of the day you feel accomplished and happy about what you have achieved then I would count that as a win.

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lowdose 2246 days ago
For a lot of people pushing on 3 buttons to create a facebook page is enormously satisfying and spending any more effort is ridiculous. The open web is disappearing because of the opportunity cost.
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ghaff 2246 days ago
That may be true but it's not that much more effort to create a hosted Wordpress site or to create a blog on Blogger. Arguably, those still lock you in a bit more than self-hosting Wordpress with your own domain, but the data is exportable and there is some migration effort associated with moving no matter what you do.
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HeadsUpHigh 2246 days ago
Yes it is. For starters I have no idea what any of these are and I probably need to input my credit card somewhere along the way.
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ghaff 2246 days ago
Actually you don't need a credit card for Blogger; it's a free Google service. And while people have beefs with Google as well, Blogger uses pretty much standard HTML if you want to export it.
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jotm 2247 days ago
This is hilarious. "It's a banana, how much could it cost, $10?"
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TeMPOraL 2246 days ago
Tangent, but: let's see how your joke ages; I have a sinking feeling bananas may cost more than that in few months.
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lowdose 2246 days ago
How many people outside tech do you know with a personal website? Why are the obvious entry barriers so funny to you?

Does your girlfriend know how to make website without your help?

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nine_k 2246 days ago
A ton of photograpers, artists, small-time writers, and hobbyists of any kind have sites. Many of them started before Facebook, though.
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collyw 2246 days ago
I know a few with Wixx sites.
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