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Hi everyone. I’m Darren and I built QuikPub over the past couple of weeks. The quickest way to explain QuikPub in a way everyone should get is to describe it a

Hi everyone. I’m Darren and I built QuikPub over the past couple of weeks. The quickest way to explain QuikPub in a way everyone should get is to describe it as “Imgur for text.” I’ve felt for a long time that there was no easy way to quickly publish short or long form rich text without going down the blog route. Blogging -- by design — comes with a history of posts and comments. Too much information when all you want to do is post about something that has nothing to do with your blogging persona or area of expertise. QuikPub lets you post anonymously (or add your name) and share a short URL to that content anywhere you want (just like Imgur). It comes with a slightly longer edit URL so that you can change or delete the post later. There’s no link or connection to other posts you make. There’s no public list of “new posts.” Your QuikPub post is invisible to Google and to casual browsers until you choose to share it. There was a Show HN yesterday about a new product called Haven that seems to be targeting a similar user base, though their solution was very different. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013715 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013715) While reading the comments I felt that many of those commenting would benefit from a simple publishing app like QuikPub. Feedback is very welcome. I’m not a UI designer, and I’m aware that the UI is a bit on the weak side, but that’s something I hope to improve over time. Here’s a few examples of posts I made myself earlier: https://quikpub.co/3K5MIPZGWP https://quikpub.co/3K5MIPZGWP https://quikpub.co/THMWJII2AW https://quikpub.co/THMWJII2AW https://quikpub.co/XL3HHFCFQF https://quikpub.co/XL3HHFCFQF https://quikpub.co/SMP42QPSQ1 https://quikpub.co/SMP42QPSQ1 Thanks

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stanislavb 6y ago
Nice work. Seems pretty decent. Do you intent to make money out of it though? Also, how do you plan to promote it? Apart of HN.
- DarrenDev 6y ago
  When I starting fleshing out the idea a couple of weeks ago I came up with a three stage development plan (I come up with a lot of three or four stage plans!!), with stage 1 being where it's at now - a very basic MVP. How far I get with stages 2 and 3 depends on the kind of feedback I get from people over the coming weeks. I have ideas about how to extend it to a paid for app, but the short answer is I haven't decided yet if that direction has legs. Too early to say. As for promotion, I'm reaching out to different types of potential users right now. I have some older desktop products in the creative writing field, and have a lot of users of those products, so that's another avenue for feedback and potential users.
cxr 6y ago
> I’ve felt for a long time that there was no easy way to quickly publish short or long form rich text without going down the blog route. There is with write.as (e.g. <https://write.as/hjr5ogk4f0wnw.md https://write.as/hjr5ogk4f0wnw.md>), which uses the same engine as WriteFreely, a blogging alternative to Medium, and is operated by the WriteFreely maintainer. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18432327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18432327
- DarrenDev 6y ago
  Nice. I hadn't heard of write.as before. Very minimalist feel to it.
- altilunium 6y ago
  I've tried write.as , but it doesn't seem to support richtext.
  - cxr 6y ago
    That's true. It uses Markdown.
uvic 6y ago
How long do the posts last can we keep track of them...???
altilunium 6y ago
>when all you want to do is post about something that has nothing to do with your blogging persona. Cool project. I've been looking for this kind of service for a long time. I would like to report a bug regarding your rich-text editor. I'm trying to post several images, but everything is vanished when i publish it. See here : https://streamable.com/wpm5mh https://streamable.com/wpm5mh I'm currently working on a personal project similar like this too, but now focusing in making a simpler javascript-based WYSIWYG rich-text editor (now supporting : bold, italic, underline, add link, paste image) Screenshot : https://github.com/altilunium/rtnF/blob/main/rtnf_screenshot2.jpeg https://github.com/altilunium/rtnF/blob/main/rtnf_screenshot... Github Repo : https://github.com/altilunium/rtnF https://github.com/altilunium/rtnF Maybe you can use it as a component for this service.
- altilunium 6y ago
  > I'm not currently allowing embedded images in posts Oh, sorry. I haven't read your thread comment below. At least you probably should tell it directly to the users on the landing page (no image support yet), or hide the "image" icon on the richtext editor, and disable the paste-image feature on the richtext editor. Some users are probably expecting your service can handle the image feature, just like the usual blogging platform.
  - DarrenDev 6y ago
    You can link to images, but I'm not allowing embedded images -- no dragging and dropping from your desktop... data:image

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stanislavb 6y ago

Nice work. Seems pretty decent. Do you intent to make money out of it though? Also, how do you plan to promote it? Apart of HN.

DarrenDev 6y ago
When I starting fleshing out the idea a couple of weeks ago I came up with a three stage development plan (I come up with a lot of three or four stage plans!!), with stage 1 being where it's at now - a very basic MVP. How far I get with stages 2 and 3 depends on the kind of feedback I get from people over the coming weeks. I have ideas about how to extend it to a paid for app, but the short answer is I haven't decided yet if that direction has legs. Too early to say. As for promotion, I'm reaching out to different types of potential users right now. I have some older desktop products in the creative writing field, and have a lot of users of those products, so that's another avenue for feedback and potential users.

cxr 6y ago

> I’ve felt for a long time that there was no easy way to quickly publish short or long form rich text without going down the blog route. There is with write.as (e.g. <https://write.as/hjr5ogk4f0wnw.md https://write.as/hjr5ogk4f0wnw.md>), which uses the same engine as WriteFreely, a blogging alternative to Medium, and is operated by the WriteFreely maintainer. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18432327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18432327

DarrenDev 6y ago
Nice. I hadn't heard of write.as before. Very minimalist feel to it.
altilunium 6y ago
I've tried write.as , but it doesn't seem to support richtext.
- cxr 6y ago
  That's true. It uses Markdown.

uvic 6y ago

How long do the posts last can we keep track of them...???

altilunium 6y ago

>when all you want to do is post about something that has nothing to do with your blogging persona. Cool project. I've been looking for this kind of service for a long time. I would like to report a bug regarding your rich-text editor. I'm trying to post several images, but everything is vanished when i publish it. See here : https://streamable.com/wpm5mh https://streamable.com/wpm5mh I'm currently working on a personal project similar like this too, but now focusing in making a simpler javascript-based WYSIWYG rich-text editor (now supporting : bold, italic, underline, add link, paste image) Screenshot : https://github.com/altilunium/rtnF/blob/main/rtnf_screenshot2.jpeg https://github.com/altilunium/rtnF/blob/main/rtnf_screenshot... Github Repo : https://github.com/altilunium/rtnF https://github.com/altilunium/rtnF Maybe you can use it as a component for this service.

altilunium 6y ago
> I'm not currently allowing embedded images in posts Oh, sorry. I haven't read your thread comment below. At least you probably should tell it directly to the users on the landing page (no image support yet), or hide the "image" icon on the richtext editor, and disable the paste-image feature on the richtext editor. Some users are probably expecting your service can handle the image feature, just like the usual blogging platform.
- DarrenDev 6y ago
  You can link to images, but I'm not allowing embedded images -- no dragging and dropping from your desktop... data:image