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Show HN: Write and post to your blog from Gmail (a Hey World alternative)

7 points by saimiam 5y ago

Backstory A couple of months ago, the Basecamp guys launched Hey.com and Hey World to bring a new email and blogging experience into the mix. Hey World lets you write blog posts straight from your Hey.com inbox which show up on https://world.hey.com. Neat! The Good: * People love the friction free blogging experience of Hey World The Bad: * to use Hey World, you need a Hey.com account. * your email address is visible to everyone because your posts sit on https://world.hey.com/<your-email-address>! * you can't host the Hey World blog on your own domain (yet) My Solution I built https://moogle.cc which lets you write and post to your blog from Gmail. Posting to your blog hosted as a subdomain of moogle is free. If you want to host your blog on your own domain, it is $5/month. You can sign up for a free Moogle blog @ https://moogle.cc/account and start posting in minutes https://moogle.cc/blog/post/1v6ouq/getting-started-with-moogle <-- here is a HOW-TO post (written from my Gmail account) explaining how to post and publish to your Moogle Blog.

djbeadle 5y ago
This is a great idea that I'm glad to see exist. I've been trying to write more, about an email a month keeping my family updated with my life. I've thought about making a blog but I found a better alternative. I've got a blog for technical projects where I can control the nitty gritty HTML but what I want is a platform for writing that (a) syncs between my devices which email drafts do well (b) has no-fuss support for images and (c) has a very low barrier for responses, my family can simply press reply (I BCC most emails). Not sure if Moogle ticks all of those boxes yet but I'm glad to see the innovation and I'm going to keep it in mind!
- saimiam 5y ago
  It doesn’t support “reply-to-comment” of the type you seem to want. But other than that, I found myself dashing off blogposts simply because it was so much simpler to do it from my gmail. And like you said, gmail has drafts and your original post sits in your SENT folder, ready to pasted verbatim to another platform should you tire of Moogle. If “Reply-to-post” is something you want to see, I’m sure we can figure something out.

7 points by saimiam 5y ago

djbeadle 5y ago

This is a great idea that I'm glad to see exist. I've been trying to write more, about an email a month keeping my family updated with my life. I've thought about making a blog but I found a better alternative. I've got a blog for technical projects where I can control the nitty gritty HTML but what I want is a platform for writing that (a) syncs between my devices which email drafts do well (b) has no-fuss support for images and (c) has a very low barrier for responses, my family can simply press reply (I BCC most emails). Not sure if Moogle ticks all of those boxes yet but I'm glad to see the innovation and I'm going to keep it in mind!

saimiam 5y ago
It doesn’t support “reply-to-comment” of the type you seem to want. But other than that, I found myself dashing off blogposts simply because it was so much simpler to do it from my gmail. And like you said, gmail has drafts and your original post sits in your SENT folder, ready to pasted verbatim to another platform should you tire of Moogle. If “Reply-to-post” is something you want to see, I’m sure we can figure something out.