Show HN: I made a simple Markdown blog creator

by sansjack • 2 years ago

47 22 2 years ago

Hey I'm Jack, a developer from England!

I recently made portfolo.app to make, making a portfolio / markdown blog easy for everyone!

Just claim a unique URL for your page, select a template and theme and start adding your projects with the built in markdown editor!

It's free to have a play around with but if you want to deploy there is a yearly subscription!

I hope you all reaps the benefits!

Thanks, Jack!

efilife• 2 years ago

And as always, it's paid. How many blogging platforms did we have this week? 4? 5? This really must be the way of milking money

jachee• 2 years ago

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but laziness is definitely the father.

Lot of money to be made catering to the latter.

dewey• 2 years ago

This really must be the way of milking money

Check the projects that are still there in 2 years, building a blogging platform is the developer's favorite hobby when they already have a todo list app.

langcss3• 2 years ago

Lol I am considering this one. Seems like it hits a spot. Longevity is my main concern.

prepend3• 2 years ago

Why is this a subscription? Are there ongoing costs? It seems like you just have generation software that would run for free on GitHub or whatever.

It seems like a better fit to have a one time purchase. And charge for upgrades or something.

sansjack• 2 years ago

i think this is valid, i think i will open source this or even make it free!

brudgers2• 2 years ago

It is ok to charge money for things you make and charity toward the poor has more impact than charity toward developers.

In addition, using a credit card online is much much easier than using github. Particularly for non-developers.

prepend3• 2 years ago

My point is in the means of charging. I’d rather pay once and be done, than pay forever.

I think whenever possible, a one time fee is easier on users.

8mobile• 2 years ago

Hi, I like your markdown blog project, it's simple but the graphics are a bit too rough. I advise you to also include a free plan, at least the user has the opportunity to try it. Nice start

FilipPanoski• 2 years ago

Seems that the target audience for this are non-technical people? Since I am a developer I am more interested in a CMS tool like https://decapcms.org/ that is open source and I can integrate within my app. Perhaps it'd be useful to you to check it out!

rekabis• 2 years ago

IMHO your domain name is a confusable that will make many people think it’s offline if they try to manually type in that domain name - because even I typed in portfolio dot app, and not portfolo dot app. And portfolio.app doesn’t lead anywhere - the owner of that domain name hasn’t stood anything up.

And while this product may appeal to many, IMHO most technical people are going to want to self-host in some fashion in order to avoid the issue of niche/boutique SAAS products being suddenly discontinued by their creators.

I certainly don’t touch the vast majority of SAAS products unless it has a significant commercial backing behind it, and even then I try to avoid SAAS as much as possible for philosophical reasons: if I can’t control it, I can’t depend on it.

KomoD• 2 years ago

+1, I also read it as portfolio.app at first

langcss3• 2 years ago

I think something based on portfolio would be better.

portfoliohq, tryportfolio, useportfolio, withportfolio etc.

AlexDragusin• 2 years ago

Might wan tto check, the LinkedIn link goes to 404.

byearthithatius2• 2 years ago

I mean the testimonial is from the Founder anyways lol

byearthithatius2• 2 years ago

The only testimonial is by the Founder and you're posting this on a website where the vast majority know how cheap/easy it is to host a static website. For instance this is free from GitHub and cheaper than your price from Netlify.

langcss3• 2 years ago

It is free* from Netlify

* until you get DDoS or a lot of traffic

LordShredda• 2 years ago

You're posting on HN, everyone here knows how to setup apache. I'd suggest you target less technically inclined people or offer more features than github pages. Honestly, just having an easier way to publish than github pages would be a good idea

rmdes• 2 years ago

it's a cool thing, but make it one time subscription, self-hosted, Docker, k8s, whatever else.. even a binary and I would pay for it, at least once. but I'm never going to deploy my blog on your stuff, that's for sure. also.. have you considered adding a few bricks of the indieweb.org / indiewebify etc..?

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