flexdinesh

All OSS. All free.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/flexdinesh/blogster

There's a demo for each theme.

Demo: Blogster Sleek - https://blogster-sleek.netlify.app

Demo: Blogster Newspaper - https://blogster-newspaper.netlify.app

Demo: Blogster Bubblegum - https://blogster-bubblegum.netlify.app

Demo: Blogster Minimal - https://blogster-minimal.netlify.app

For it was the unnecessary feature bloat and the terrible performance made it painful to do what I want - write at the speed of my thoughts, write often and search often. It took me a few days to move thousands of my notes to bear but it was worth it.

Hey there! I built pocketnotes to easily create and share notes with anyone. All notes generate an auto scaled preview image so when you share the link to your notes, the text shows up in the link preview.

As to why I built this, I like writing and sharing my thoughts. I do it daily and I do it a lot. I like using tools that are snappy and fast that don't slow down your thought process. My current workflow before pocketnotes was writing the notes in my personal notes app and copy pasting the text in Slack/Twitter/etc. So to make my life and everyone else's who prefer to write and share notes at the speed of their thought I built pocketnotes.

I'd love to hear from you if you have any thoughts or feedback on the user experience or the idea itself.

Not a company but I’ve been experimenting with different tech stack options over the last 6 months to find a simple tech stack with an independent frontend and an independent backend with a hosted database. The goal is not just to build but also be able to maintain without much complexity and not spend a lot of money on hosting.

Backend: Building a REST/GraphQL API that could be deployed to Cloudflare workers is a no brainer. Super cheap and incredibly fast and when you need to scale it’s still ridiculously cheap. I’d probaby go with REST with swagger + openapi-typescript to generate types on the frontend because honestly GraphQL is a lot of work for one person to maintain.

Frontend: Next.js server render or ISG hosted on Vercel. I'd throw Tailwind on too for rapidly styling your pages.

Database: Prisma with Postgres so it could be typed and works well with other tools. I still haven’t figured where to host Postgres easily. Looking for something like Mongo Atlas where I could grab the connection URL easily and has affordable free/paid plans.

It's setup with opinionated principles, theming and token configuration to build your own design system.

Static compile-time theming Full server render support Auto generated CSS variables from strongly typed tokens MDX based themed docs Example components 9 different themes