pagecord

I agree! That's why I built Pagecord. Like Substack it's a blog with a mailing list, but it's also your personal website (pages, for example) with a custom domain. Also, source available. Most people will defer to Substack because (A) the brand, and (B) it can be monetised which is probably the biggest draw. Maybe I need to bring monetisation to Pagecord? :) https://pagecord.com https://github.com/lylo/pagecord

Pagecord. Blog without the slog. Blogging is more unpopular than ever but Pagecord is somehow growing in popularity. Keen to know what people here think. https://pagecord.com (Source: https://github.com/lylo/pagecord)

I’m building Pagecord: “Blog without the slog”. https://pagecord.com 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

Can I shamelessly self-promote Pagecord? Free plan plus super-cheap premium plan with loads of features. Also source available so self-hostable (arguably cheaper to let me do it for you!). Export in full HTML or static-site friendly Markdown so you’re not trapped. https://github.com/lylo/pagecord

I’m building Pagecord to make blogging as effortless as posting on social media, but without the doomscrolling. https://pagecord.com It’s minimal in design, but packed with features. The USP that customers seem to really value is posting by email. It massively reduces the friction required to blog and is surprisingly enjoyable. Launching next week is custom home pages with dynamic variables. It’s in beta already, see https://iamgregb.io. Pagecord is free and source available with an unbeatably priced premium plan of $29/year. Follow along on GitHub: https://github.com/lylo/pagecord Feedback welcome! :)

I’m working on Pagecord. Blogging as easy as sending an email. https://pagecord.com Pagecord is free with a very full-featured (and cheap!) premium package. Email newsletter, custom domains, privacy-respecting analytics etc. Source is available. Ruby on Rails: https://github.com/lylo/pagecord

Pagecord (https://pagecord.com) - an open source blogging platform written in Rails. Post by email, reply by email, subscribe by email. Who needs Substack? https://github.com/lylo/pagecord

I’ve been thinking about this lately for my publish-by-email app, Pagecord (https://pagecord.com). I’ve made it open source (https://github.com/lylo/pagecord) but I’ve been thinking it would be really cool if paying customers had a stake in it somehow. The Subvert model is interesting for sure.

Rails is wonderful and I’m thankful for what the community (and DHH) has done over the years. My company (founded 2007) was built on Rails and that B2B app now has 200,000 customers… all on a Rails monolith, the same code base that has evolved with Rails over the years. It’s not just for side projects! That’s said, I run my current side project on Rails 8 and Postgres (I don’t get on with SQLite). You can do so much with so little code! Inspect the source code here if you like :) https://github.com/lylo/pagecord

I built Pagecord as a way for people to publish their writing online with the lowest barrier to entry possible: email. I launched it earlier this year as a proof of concept that took a few days. I then made it paid-only, which was a bad move! Since then I've added a bunch of features, open-sourced the code (https://github.com/lylo/pagecord) and today I've made it freemium once again. My plan is to build a community around it as an open source, not-for-profit community-owned product that has build-in longevity. First though, I'll need to get more people using it! Check it out at https://pagecord.com. I'd love to get some proper feedback on it (the video isn't great, I know – will fix that at some point!). ps. I wrote a post in a bit more details if you're particularly curious! https://pagecord.com/pagecord/a-free-and-open-future-5b76fa7...