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Comment by mproud | Hacker News Reader

I’m with you. I just want an easy place to write and share an article, and I would prefer not to self host and install a million things.

No one has seemed to have suggested any alternatives, except for [HackerNoon](https://hackernoon.com). Surely there’s something else? Medium can’t have that large of a stranglehold to the point of a monopoly. (If I’m wrong, then this is a biz opportunity.)

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Self-hosting isn't exactly hard (or expensive) ...if you're posting "elsewhere", you're relying on "them" to decide it's OK for "you" to stay there

If you self-host, you're fully* in charge

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* - where by "fully", I mean you haven't violated the hosting providers ToS, and/or your DNS provider's ToS

I have an "in" on HackerNoon, but not all of my content is tech/startup related (which is what they want). I think the problem is that platforms need a way to monetize, Medium was great during it's growth years but once it needed to start making money, how do they monetize? I'm still hopeful for something else out there

I think the biggest problem with Medium is the fact that nothing was paywalled and then they introduced the paywall, which caused frustration. Substack, on the other hand, is much more pleasurable because there is an expectation from the start that some of the articles are going to be paywalled.

wordpress.com?

If all you TRULY want is a place to share and host an article then that is a problem solved a million times over (including by Medium). My guess is you also want a built-in audience without a paywall.

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