Show HN: Evernote powered website/blogging platform

by nerdburn • 13 years ago

58 35 13 years ago

We built this 2 months ago, but put a new landing page on it, added some features, and made it publicly available without requiring an invite.

bollockitis• 13 years ago

Clever idea. The only problem I see with this is that rare occasion when that poem you were writing for your Bronies is accidentally tagged as "Published."

nerdburn5• 13 years ago

Hey, you could be accidentally famous ;)

cavemangeek• 13 years ago

This looks great! Evernote is one of my favorite apps and I use it daily. The Markdown support is just icing on the cake.

geekforbrains8• 13 years ago

Ha ha yea, I'm a big fan of Markdown, one of the main reasons we added it. Can't beat normalized data ;)

Would love to hear any other suggestions/feature ideas you have.

okalex• 13 years ago

Agreed, but the markdown formatting didn't seem to work on my first test post. Still, a really cool idea. Nice job, guys!

geekforbrains8• 13 years ago

You have to enable Markdown in your site settings. Its a checkbox near the bottom.

nerdburn5• 13 years ago

Did you set your "site" to use Markdown? You can edit that when you create / edit a site on Postach.io.

andygcook• 13 years ago

You should add a button to a demo on the homepage. It would be nice to see what a Postach.io blog looks without having to register.

abdophoto• 13 years ago

Agreed. A demo would be nice.

nerdburn5• 13 years ago

I totally agree - we're working on that right now :) Thanks!

Hansi• 13 years ago

Great, I recommend a live demo and screenshots too. Maybe a quick tutorial showing the process from creating a new note to publishing etc.

wilfra2• 13 years ago

http://wilfra.postach.io

Set that up in under a minute.

If they support custom domains I'm in - but don't really like using subdomains.

edit: they don't seem to support images, i uploaded a screenshot of the admin area and it didn't render on my blog.

geekforbrains8• 13 years ago

Images should be working, I'll check that out. As for custom domains, we absolute support it, just getting ready to roll it out. You can see custom domains in action on my site (also run via Postach.io) http://geekforbrains.com

Cheers

pbreit• 13 years ago

> Set that up in under a minute.

Looks like it. But to be less snarky, I'm no longer very compelled by speed of setup. The result is at least 10x more important.

anologwintermut• 13 years ago

Who needs a blogging platform? With Evernote's lovely security practices your data is likely public anyway.

uslic001• 13 years ago

Very easy to use. Great idea. Published my first blog post already.

geekforbrains8• 13 years ago

Anybody looking for some examples, here's a couple sites:

http://geekforbrains.com http://blog.quoterobot.com http://docs.quoterobot.com http://crunchycorner.postach.io

ryanSrich• 13 years ago

Super easy to customize and use. I'll be playing around with this more tonight. Made this in a couple minutes (http://onthoughts.postach.io/post/test-post)

geekforbrains8• 13 years ago

Awesome, glad to see you were able to hack a custom theme pretty quick too! Looks great. We'll have some in-depth theme docs coming later this week.

ritonlajoie2• 13 years ago

I like the website, but it lacks some documentation on how it works, what are the features you provide, etc... I would like to know more without being forced to register.

How do these blog post work exactly ? How to make an article ? Does it work by tagging evernot notes with a special tag ? How does image inclusion works ?

geekforbrains8• 13 years ago

Hey, sorry for the lack of details. We're still working on that.

Basically, Postach.io looks in a notebook you specify when creating a site, for notes that are tagged as "published". This will make a post on your public site. Any images are pushed to our CDN. If a note is tagged with "page" as well as "published" its made public as a page. When a note is deleted or the tag "published" removed, it will be removed form your public site as well as any images from our CDN.

Hope that answers your questions ;)

ritonlajoie2• 13 years ago

yes, thanks!

bmac27• 13 years ago

I'll definitely give it a shot as I've become a fairly heavy Evernote user and the templates look great. The problem is most of what I post to Evernote is typically in the form of short notes, ideas, lists, bullet points or anything that I've typically "notepaded" in the past. In other words, nothing that would be considered "blog-worthy" out of the box. (edit: maybe Tweet-worthy?) So I would have to flesh out these thoughts into something worth reading on this platform the same way I do now with any notes I compile: in a word processor.

(Note that I have no idea whether my habits fit the typical Evernote use case but I figured I'd throw it out there even if I'm my own cohort.)

nerdburn5• 13 years ago

I've got the same issue actually - I've been thinking of using Postach.io as a way to collect random musings and photos of text in books I'm reading / pondering.

ejp• 13 years ago

Evernote is perfect for using as a commonplace book [1] for exactly this purpose. The only drawback is that it's hard to view in a chronological order, which is a key part of the commonplacing idea. Seems like a blog platform on top of it could solve this right away.

Now I just need to get around to reading those books I want to excerpt from...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplacing

brandonb927• 13 years ago

I love Evernote and this has gotta be the most useful and easy-to-use platform out there, if not the only one I've seen!

theguild• 13 years ago

This is an idea whose time has come. I've also seen Evernote used as a game distribution platform [1-2].

With how much Evernote is expanding as a platform and as a way to store and index information, maybe the next threat to Google isn't Facebook but Evernote itself.

[1] http://flowandzonegames.com/break-bad-habits-addictions-card...

[2] http://flowandzonegames.com/hypnotic-visions/

EDIT: Was Postach.io a bookmarking app in it's past life (and a pretty good one too)?

geekforbrains8• 13 years ago

As far as I know, Postach.io wasn't a bookmarking app. Not one we were running anyway.

forrestblount• 13 years ago

Would it be possible to allow custom post paths? I'm looking to move off of posterous and I'd like to preserve the link structure domain.com/title.

nerdburn5• 13 years ago

This is a great idea - we'll add it to our roadmap :) Thanks!

geekforbrains8• 13 years ago

love this idea!

raferx• 13 years ago

This is cool. -Rafe from Evernote.

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