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Show HN: Diary.by – minimalist, ad and tracking-free blogging platform

18 points by hxii 5y ago

hxii 5y ago
Diary.by is a place for humans to share things with their friends, colleagues or even the world. Be it your blog, a journal, a diary or even your recipe book - anything is welcome, and it is up to you whether you want to share what you wrote with anyone. Diary.by does not have any kind of social features, ads or tracking or otherwise useless features. It's purely a place for you to write, in peace, without any kind of noise. Diary.by constantly evolves based on your feedback, and since it's Thanksgiving I want to gift the first 5 people a PLUS account that includes CSS and image upload :) Roadmap: https://trello.com/b/MjVPant1/roadmap https://trello.com/b/MjVPant1/roadmap Twitter: https://twitter.com/diaryby_ https://twitter.com/diaryby_
launchiterate 5y ago
Inspiring thank you! Edit: for working on an ad free platform :D and all by yourself !
- hxii 5y ago
  Thank you!
beingflo 5y ago
I really like the minimalism here. As coincidence has it I'm working on a similar application that focuses on note taking and offers publishing as a secondary feature. Your comment on image upload being costly rang very true. Have you considered offering a bring-your-own-storage approach to facilitate this? E.g. provide an S3 api key and upload images straight from browser. I'm currently tossing that idea around but not sure if it's out of scope for a minimalist application :)
- hxii 5y ago
  Hey thanks! Attaching S3 could work, but is currently outside of the scope, especially considering my limited knowledge and experience with AWS.
derekzhouzhen 5y ago
Nicely done with great ethical principals. A couple of suggestions: * You already provide RSS feeds, please add RSS auto-discovery (link=alternate) to the index page of the blog * Opengragh metas for individual blogs can be very useful when your user want to share links to their posts on the social medias.
- hxii 5y ago
  Thank you! Implementing OG is definitely on the horizon (like next week, most likely) and I will look into adding RSS auto-discovery at the same time.
derekzhouzhen 5y ago
One more suggestion. The description in the RSS has markdown syntax in it, so it is very confusing. You want to use rendered html snippet in there.
- hxii 5y ago
  Oops! Will definitely look into this, thanks!

18 points by hxii 5y ago

hxii 5y ago

Diary.by is a place for humans to share things with their friends, colleagues or even the world. Be it your blog, a journal, a diary or even your recipe book - anything is welcome, and it is up to you whether you want to share what you wrote with anyone. Diary.by does not have any kind of social features, ads or tracking or otherwise useless features. It's purely a place for you to write, in peace, without any kind of noise. Diary.by constantly evolves based on your feedback, and since it's Thanksgiving I want to gift the first 5 people a PLUS account that includes CSS and image upload :) Roadmap: https://trello.com/b/MjVPant1/roadmap https://trello.com/b/MjVPant1/roadmap Twitter: https://twitter.com/diaryby_ https://twitter.com/diaryby_

launchiterate 5y ago

Inspiring thank you! Edit: for working on an ad free platform :D and all by yourself !

hxii 5y ago
Thank you!

beingflo 5y ago

I really like the minimalism here. As coincidence has it I'm working on a similar application that focuses on note taking and offers publishing as a secondary feature. Your comment on image upload being costly rang very true. Have you considered offering a bring-your-own-storage approach to facilitate this? E.g. provide an S3 api key and upload images straight from browser. I'm currently tossing that idea around but not sure if it's out of scope for a minimalist application :)

hxii 5y ago
Hey thanks! Attaching S3 could work, but is currently outside of the scope, especially considering my limited knowledge and experience with AWS.

derekzhouzhen 5y ago

Nicely done with great ethical principals. A couple of suggestions: * You already provide RSS feeds, please add RSS auto-discovery (link=alternate) to the index page of the blog * Opengragh metas for individual blogs can be very useful when your user want to share links to their posts on the social medias.

hxii 5y ago
Thank you! Implementing OG is definitely on the horizon (like next week, most likely) and I will look into adding RSS auto-discovery at the same time.

derekzhouzhen 5y ago

One more suggestion. The description in the RSS has markdown syntax in it, so it is very confusing. You want to use rendered html snippet in there.

hxii 5y ago
Oops! Will definitely look into this, thanks!