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It's an all-in-one, open source blogging/site analytics/newsletter platform that takes privacy seriously and is priced affordably (plus a free plan, obvs). Would love your feedback if you have a few mins to spare.
The goal is to make you write more!
Blogging is more unpopular than ever but Pagecord is somehow growing in popularity. Keen to know what people here think.
(Source: https://github.com/lylo/pagecord)
https://olly.world/what-it-actually-costs-to-run-pagecord-ma...
At this point they have stopped the cash bleeding and made profit margins healthy again. From there they can more easily rationalise how to take it forward over the next 5-10 years.
That might mean stripping unpopular product features, rebranding, going upmarket, whatever.
It’s a real shame for all the staff, of course, but from a business point of view it’s going to be interesting to see how it plays out.
“RSS. Nothing more, nothing less”
To goal is to make you write more. Tonnes of features, including posting by email (my favourite way to blog).
I love blogging and I want more people to go back to writing on their own blog and reduce time on the socials. It seems to be striking a chord with people.
Free classic plan, bargain premium plan at only $29/year.
Source available (Rails) at https://github.com/lylo/pagecord
I really hope the recent changes at Apple mean this will get completely overhauled and they'll return to their roots as design leaders. It will be such a shame if this mess is allowed to continue
That said, building your own static site and faffing with all the tech is generally an enjoyable distraction for most techies
Focus on publishing your own work. Syndicate if it’s effortless, otherwise don’t worry about it.
Blogging lives! :)
RSS most certainly isn’t dead either. I run pagecord.com (indie blogging app) and the majority of traffic is from a huge variety of feed readers.
An independent blogging and personal website builder. Source available (Ruby on Rails).
It’s not a novel idea but it’s gaining decent traction because it’s simple and (I think!) makes you want to write more. Which is basically why I built it.
Blog by email, custom domains, internal private analytics, theming and more!
Free forever plan, or only $29/yr for everything. Priced as I think personal/blogging sites should be. Everything is too expensive these days.
The source is open in as much as it’s available to read and actually do what you want with (self host etc)… you just can’t use the code to sell the same product yourself.
As a builder myself I think this is perfectly reasonable, and arguing the toss over whether this is “pure” open source is pointless imo.
For me, it is open source (it’s open, look at it, use it!) but it just happens to have a license you don’t like/agree with.
Would love to see this take off.
Great to see blogging making a resurgence - RSS next!