[HN Gopher] Show HN: Pika - Simple blogging software
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Show HN: Pika - Simple blogging software
Hello HN! I wanted to share something we at Good Enough
(https://goodenough.us) built over the past month. Pika!
https://pika.page I know, I know, who needs more blogging
software? In this case, _I DO_. I find that the big players in the
market have a distracting number of dials and knobs. I greatly
appreciate the indieweb players in the space, but none of those
solutions quite fit my way of blogging and so I'd bounce from one
to the other to the other. I tried SSGs and my goodness do I
dislike the experience of maintaining a website with them. I
dislike the SSG experience so much that before convincing the team
to build Pika with me, I was actually blogging by writing straight
HTML! Pika is about simplifying blogging down to writing. Pika
provides a great editor that doesn't _require_ Markdown (but
accepts it) and a light bit of easy-to-use customizability without
distracting you. With that baseline, we hope Pika can be a nice
place for semi-technical folks to start or continue their blogging
journey without all of the fiddly bits. In the longer term we'd
like to make blogging more and more accessible to those who are
non-technical, and we will grow our feature set and UX accordingly.
We would love to hear thoughts from anyone that is an active
blogger or considering starting a blog. Also, if you know someone
who is on the hunt for easy, beautiful blogging software we'd
appreciate you letting them know about Pika. Thank you!
Author : bjhess
Score : 36 points
Date : 2024-02-06 14:28 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (pika.page)
(TXT) w3m dump (pika.page)
| carlosjobim wrote:
| If you want to charge money for a blogging platform, you have to
| offer a feature for blogg authors to paywall and sell
| subscriptions. That's what is missing in all free blog platforms,
| and it's the one feature that serious blog writers will pay for.
| Apreche wrote:
| I agree with this. The only person who is paying money for a
| blog platform is someone who is making money from that blog. A
| blog that makes money needs tons of features for analytics,
| monetization, SEO, etc. i.e.: Not a clean and simple one.
|
| I like the look of PIKA. But since I don't expect to make a
| dime from blogging, I'm not going to pay a dime to do it.
| Free/open/self-hosted solutions are the only ones I'll
| consider.
| AndrewDucker wrote:
| Counter example - I pay for my account on Dreamwidth, and so do
| enough other people to keep the place running. Because that way
| they don't need to have advertising and the whole place is
| nicer because of it.
| a_band wrote:
| I like this simple implementation.
| eps wrote:
| I don't like the fact that it can't be self-hosted.
|
| They _will_ go under sooner or later and will take all blogs
| with them.
| bentsai wrote:
| Admittedly, I switch blogging platforms every season or so.
| however, Pika has stood out and stuck so far because it has
| struck the right balance for me in terms of customization,
| editing experience, and vibe. I've been writing Markdown since
| its inception, but I find I prefer Pika's WYSIWYG editor. I
| realize with blogging, I don't want to deal with Markdown. I know
| I'm parroting the marketing message here, but that just shows how
| much the good enough folks have hit the target for me.
| nancyp wrote:
| Why pay $6/month for blogging when there are so many free
| options?
|
| 1 of your 50 blog posts 0 of your 3 pages
|
| Subscribe to Pika Pro to unlock: Unlimited blog
| posts Unlimited pages Hosting your Pika blog on
| your domain The option to hide the Pika brand on your
| blog
| tamimio wrote:
| I just use Zola, fast, free, open source, you are in full control
| of everything.
|
| https://www.getzola.org
| xz18r wrote:
| I am not your target audience but I love the branding and all of
| the other stuff you make on https://goodenough.us/. The world
| needs more cutesy, thought through mini project factories like
| you.
|
| As for pricing, 60$ seems very steep. I disregard the 6$/mo
| because aside from trying out for a month, who would host a blog
| for less than a year? But turns out this is the exact pricing a
| write.as (which is nearly identical to this project from what I
| can tell, only with a proven track record) so I guess that is
| where you got the pricepoint from?
| wilg wrote:
| Substack makes me think blogging solutions need to have a built
| in email subscription feature. Otherwise, what, normal people are
| gonna use an RSS feed? More likely they just never come back.
| keybits wrote:
| I can relate to wanting something simpler to use than a static
| site generator or a full fledged CMS!
|
| For me to use a personal website application I want it to be open
| source in case the provider ever disappears. I took this approach
| with my take on a personal blogging app, PostOwl
| (https://github.com/PostOwl/postowl). It has a similar in-place
| editing feel to Pika. Now I just need to offer a hosted version
| so people don't have to install it themselves!
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