Show HN: Telepost – Create a blog from a Telegram channel

by kossnocorp • 8 years ago

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kossnocorp12• 8 years ago

I've made an app that creates blogs from Telegram channels.

Telepost is free. I offer plus account that allows having a custom domain with free SSL powered by Let's Encrypt, embed Google Analytics or have comments, just for €200/year.

If you're interested, hit me at https://t.me/kossnocorp

robjan• 8 years ago

Good idea but I am not sure if €200 is a little expensive for this kind of service.

kossnocorp12• 8 years ago

@robjan thanks! I have a free plan that must satisfy most of the users. Regarding the price, I understand 200 sounds like a lot. But look it's just €17 per month. For me, it's a reasonable price for a blog platform that updates in nearly real time, provides with free SSL and boosts SEO. I'm an indie dev living in Europe and can't cut the price leveraging the network effect. I have to pay rent and for the infrastructure.

In the future, I'm going to add more cool stuff like AMP, RSS (also podcasts), comments using Telegram login, cross-posting to Twitter and things like that. So I probably will even increase the price or introduce plans limited by features.

leonardinius2• 8 years ago

Would it possible to list some demo blogs / accounts here?

I have just tried it with no success so far. But some demo page would help me decide how hard to try here

kossnocorp12• 8 years ago

Here is my channel: https://goindie.xyz

blocked_again• 8 years ago

Awesome. Always happy to see Indie Hackers. One question. Do you make enough money from this to sustain yourselves? I had a blogging platform project in mind but I am not sure whether enough people will use the service.

kossnocorp12• 8 years ago

Hey, thanks! I've just released it, so it's too early to say if it will sale enough.

victornomad• 8 years ago

I made a similar thing and open source few years ago to quick blog and share things with my family (i dont like much social media) but it was taking me more time to keep with the project than creating content so I stopped developing it

Its nice that you are making a whole product rather than a hack! Congrats!

kossnocorp12• 8 years ago

Thanks!

federicoponzi2• 8 years ago

This is an interesting project, thanks for it! I'm trying to setup a blog, but it get stuck when I click on Continue after inserting the channel username :(

I guess my console log may help you:

https://nopaste.xyz/?0f594138a86a875c#M6YpDAZn7r3bKJc98MKvXc...

edit: added a nopaste link

kossnocorp12• 8 years ago

Sorry, it seems like I can't issue SSL certificates anymore as I reached the limit of Let's Encrypt usage (https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/). Whoops! I'm working on it right now.

kossnocorp12• 8 years ago

It turned out that your channel has too many records, so Google Cloud Functions kill my script by timeout. I'll change the approach, and in the future, it will be possible to import a channel regardless of size. Thank you for helping me to find it out.

federicoponzi2• 8 years ago

Ops! Sorry about that! :S and thanks anyway :) still I do very like the idea

leonardinius2• 8 years ago

There is also http://tele.ga/about.html. Not sure how it compares

kossnocorp12• 8 years ago

Tele.ga has more features (RSS, sitemaps, etc.) that I still plan to implement for Telepost. The disadvantage of it that is built on top of the Bot API that has limited abilities. For instance, Tele.ga can't fetch history of your channel (works only for new posts) or handle message deletion request. Telepost has close integration with Telegram; your blog will be complete and always be up to date. Also, Telepost also doesn't require adding a 3rd-party bot to admins of the channel.

andreypopp• 8 years ago

Created a channel/blog but won't start using it before it adds support for rich formatting (codeblocks, ...). €200/year is ok for me for such a frictionless experience.

kossnocorp12• 8 years ago

Rich formatting is coming!

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