Stuck in lockdown, I wanted to hack on something fresh so I created a blogging app (yay originality!) for my personal sites which had languished, gathering dust as they often do. I really enjoyed building it (Ruby on Rails, if you wondered), I learned a lot. It turns out I also really like using the app, and I've actually blogged a lot more since I built it.
I hadn't planned to 'commercialise' it at all because I figured not many people in 2021 want to pay cash money for a basic (albeit intentionally!) blogging app, and B2C is generally a tough place to live.
Despite knowing better we got locked down again so I built a marketing page and I thought I might as well ask the Hacker News massive what they think of it before I inevitably turn it off. Is old-school blogging dead? Shall we try and resuscitate it? You tell me.
Stuck in lockdown, I wanted to hack on something fresh so I created a blogging app (yay originality!) for my personal sites which had languished, gathering dust as they often do. I really enjoyed building it (Ruby on Rails, if you wondered), I learned a lot. It turns out I also really like using the app, and I've actually blogged a lot more since I built it.
I hadn't planned to 'commercialise' it at all because I figured not many people in 2021 want to pay cash money for a basic (albeit intentionally!) blogging app, and B2C is generally a tough place to live.
Despite knowing better we got locked down again so I built a marketing page and I thought I might as well ask the Hacker News massive what they think of it before I inevitably turn it off. Is old-school blogging dead? Shall we try and resuscitate it? You tell me.
Go forth and roast me - I can take it! :-)