I may not be a primary target as I would only use it occasionally, as an alternative to Medium, when I need to publish something that does not fit the content of the websites I own. There's two things that instantly turn me off: 1) The monthly subscription. I understand the running costs would be on a monthly basis, and people who want to start a blog may be fine with that, but myself, no way I am going to pay regularly for something that I may use occasionally. 2) Not enough details on the features available, e.g. SEO. Other than that, I did like the tagline "intentionally simple" and I think this has potential. I am not a big fun of Medium but could not find a substitute that would be easy enough to use, worry-free. I could even pay for a tier of article available, but again, not on a regular basis and not too much.

In order to allow people to try it out, we have decided to make it free to signup and publish your first blog post. That way you have all the time you need to draft content and set up your blog before subscribing. You only need to upgrade to a paid account ($5) when you are ready to publish the rest of your content. So feel free to give it a try!

This weekend we released our second theme, Paper! It comes with a few color customization options for now, including an optional light and dark mode. But we are curious to discover how users will want to customize their themes.

I am excited to try the service but without additional screenshots, I am not willing to pay outright. I need to see the controls for the design, and the settings for domain, if they are available. . If it's just going to be a sub-domain, then what is the incentive to say, switch from Substack?

Static site generators are an "easy" way to start an independent blog or website but getting started still requires a lot of technical expertise. So we started with the idea of removing the overhead of getting it set up by running a hosted version of Jekyll, like WordPress(.com) or Ghost(Pro).

While there are plenty of options for using a headless CMS with a static site generator, they typically aren't designed to be an end-to-end hosted solution aimed at non-developer users. And their editors tend to mimic a traditional CMS, falling somewhere between a simple what-you-see-is-never-what-you-get and an overly complicated drag-and-drop experience.

For the design of our editing experience, we have taken inspiration from Ghost (1.0) and note-taking applications like Evernote or Notion because we want it to feel content-focused and personal.