Show HN: Hashnode - the easiest way to start a developer blog and get readership

by Sandeepg33k • 6 years ago

12 5 6 years ago

Hey HN community,

I am Sandeep, co-founder of Hashnode. I am super excited to be here and share what we have been working on.

Hashnode helps developers start a personal blog on their own domain for free and find readership from an active dev community.

We realized that traditional publishing platforms offer visibility and engagement at the cost of content ownership. On the other hand if you go with a self hosted solution, your articles don't get proper visibility and reach. Hashnode combines the best of both worlds. It lets you map a custom domain and publish articles under your own branding and also distributes them to a built in developer community.

We launched in June this year and have been growing 30% in different KPIs month over month. So, it has been a crazy ride so far.

Seeing strong word of mouth and traction! We have curated some of the testimonials here: https://hashnode.com/testimonials

I would love to know what you think!

pimterry• 6 years ago

If I already have a working blog that I'm happy with, would you suggest I look at Hashnode in addition, or is that not encouraged?

Having my own self-hosted blog is useful, it works well and ties into my existing site & tools, so I don't really want to change it. I'm just wondering if you'd recommend syndicating to hashnode as well, and whether that's well supported (canonical headers etc etc). I know lots of people syndicate their own blogs to Medium to widen their readership, and frankly getting similar benefits that without having to use Medium would be a big win for everybody!

bewuethr• 6 years ago

I'm confused, Hashnode seems to be multiple years old? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11018763

amitmerchant• 6 years ago

On the other hand if you go with a self hosted solution, your articles don't get proper visibility and reach.

Ever heard of SEO?

l1ghthouse• 6 years ago

What is your business model?

Show HN: Hashnode - the easiest way to start a developer blog and get readership

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