Writeby

A minimal alternative to Medium

3 followers

A minimal alternative to Medium

3 followers

Writeby is a blogging platform made for writers. ✅ Simple & free ✅ Write without distraction ✅ Markdown support ✅ No paywall ever

Launch tags:Writing

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Songcorder

What's the use case in here? Is it supposed to be a community/social networking site like Medium? Or simply a publishing platform?

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6yr ago

TabPunk

Maker

@doomhammer It's meant to be a Medium alternative. We'll build out community/social features soon! ;)

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6yr ago

Songcorder

@nickhoang I see. Thanks for explanation :)

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6yr ago

@doomhammer @nickhoang So there's no way of finding other users on the site right now?

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6yr ago

Hey Nick. I love the clean look and I’m on the same boat with the Medium paywall BS. But how do you plan to sustain it it’s going to be free forever? Also, is it possible to plugin images in the blogs? Couldn’t see any.

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6yr ago

TabPunk

Maker

@dxeen Hey Deen, we plan to offer a premium subscription for more advanced features. Image support is coming berry soon :D

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6yr ago

Dashly

I love minimalism in all possible formats Congrats on the launch When are you planning to monetize it?

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6yr ago

TabPunk

Maker

@valeryfenskaya Thanks Valerie. I'm a sucker for minimalism too :) The core features will remain free forever. We're thinking about monetizing with a premium sub for advanced publishing features, but that's probably a year out.

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6yr ago

Hi Nick, very nice looking site! I am working on a blog post with a list of alternatives to the "classic" platforms like wordpress. I was looking through Google to see a couple of examples of blogs on your site... unfortunately I did not find any. Is it possible that your content is not getting indexed by Google? Cheers

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6yr ago

TabPunk

Maker

@danischenker Hi Dani, thank you for your interest! We're definitely indexed by Google. But we're new so the index frequency is a bit more sparse now. You can google "nick writeby" to see my personal site :)

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6yr ago

@nickhoang Hi Nick. Ok, cool. I get it. It isn't always easy to get index quickly with a new site ;-) I will add your project to the list! Cheers!

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6yr ago

TabPunk

Maker

🥳 Hello fellow makers, I'm super excited to launch Writeby, the simplest blogging platform made for writers. Writeby was born out of my frustration with Medium's platform, especially its paywall. I wanted a platform that's simple & beautiful—a platform that enables writers to just write and share their content freely. Really hope you'll find this useful! Let me know if you have ideas to make it even better!

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6yr ago

@nickhoang Looking for better UI and more features! I'm ready to start writing!

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6yr ago

Content Writing Jobs

Looks nice! I would always prefer more to see the live demo instead of just a screenshot. I don't want to register just to see the product:)

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6yr ago

TabPunk

Maker

@edgarascom Yeah that's a good lesson for launch!

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6yr ago

Hey @nickhoang, looks pretty good and testing was smooth! Immediate things to pay attention to are image linking and image tag optimization (I can only copy paste images in to my posts, and can't edit alt tags). It would be great if I could make (basic) SEO optimizations to my content before hitting publish, with the addition of a cover image of some kind? I think Medium is already pretty simple and they've got the features (mostly) right.

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