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Apart from the infrastructure and application, what benefits does Medium provide? Is it the discovery of your content via the links at the bottom? Is that consi

Apart from the infrastructure and application, what benefits does Medium provide? Is it the discovery of your content via the links at the bottom? Is that considered the killer feature? Is there some kind of solution that exists where self-hosted bloggers can send traffic to each other, like the link sharing networks of the old days?

EamonnMR 8y ago
I think that some subset of users just won't engage with any content that isn't on a platform they already know, or appears to be on a shiny new platform of some kind.
- smooke 8y ago
  We're about to see if that's true in Hacker Noon 2.0 :-)
  - EamonnMR 8y ago
    Some of that hurdle may have already been overcome by the Hacker Noon branding on the medium site. But do write up your findings!
rchaud 8y ago
> Apart from the infrastructure and application, what benefits does Medium provide? The ability to spin up your own "digital media company" as Hackernoon has done, with close to no setup costs.
- smooke 8y ago
  David from Hackernoon here. I am thankful Medium (as it used to be) existed. I wish they didn't give up on empowering people to build their own sites. But their new business model is interesting and I wish them the best, it just has nothing to do with empowering people to build their own sites. In our own small way, this is how I see the relationship: https://twitter.com/JulienVallini/status/1060 https://twitter.com/JulienVallini/status/1060