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Looking for feedback on Truegit, Git powered Blogging platform

6 points by quantdaddy 4y ago

Hey all, I've been working on a blogging platform Truegit (https://truegit.io) powered by your Github repository. The mission is to give the publishers complete ownership of the the content (as the Github repository is the source of truth of everything including your blog configuration), while we publish your content and help you gain audience. You can write your posts in markdown, commit it to your repository, and we publish it! Not to mention, this also opens up a whole new world of collaboration on your posts through Pull Requests.

MatthiasPortzel 4y ago
I like the idea of doing something like this that isn't as complicated as a full static site generator but just has one pre-formatted configuration. On the other hand, there are a lot of existing SSGs and CMSs that provide the ability to run a site in Git, come with theme options so you don't have to theme yourself, and have a managed hosting platform. In that sense, you're competing with almost everyone listed in https://jamstack.org/generators/ https://jamstack.org/generators/. A note on Hacker News formatting: consider starting your title with "Show: HN" for this type of post and including the link in the URL field (see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html).
- quantdaddy 4y ago
  The biggest difference with the existing site generators and CMSs is that they are isolated deployments and each blog is completely independent. This makes it hard to gain audience. The goal of Truegit is to bring the social components: likes, comments, follow a blog etc. We want to make it Medium like publishing platform powered by Github. AFAIK, there's no platform that enables this. Thanks for the Show HN tip!!
mister_goo 4y ago
I'm just curious because Cloudflare seems to offer the same service. And Github itself can publish pages. How do you compete with them?
- quantdaddy 4y ago
  Deploying a blog is so easy and there are a myriad of tools. However, they are just tools: self managed or not. They do not bring the audience to you. The goal of Truegit is to bring the social components (WIP) to your blog: likes, comments, follow a blog etc. This is what makes Truegit a platform and not just a tool. We want to make it Medium like publishing platform powered by Github.

6 points by quantdaddy 4y ago

MatthiasPortzel 4y ago

I like the idea of doing something like this that isn't as complicated as a full static site generator but just has one pre-formatted configuration. On the other hand, there are a lot of existing SSGs and CMSs that provide the ability to run a site in Git, come with theme options so you don't have to theme yourself, and have a managed hosting platform. In that sense, you're competing with almost everyone listed in https://jamstack.org/generators/ https://jamstack.org/generators/. A note on Hacker News formatting: consider starting your title with "Show: HN" for this type of post and including the link in the URL field (see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html).

quantdaddy 4y ago
The biggest difference with the existing site generators and CMSs is that they are isolated deployments and each blog is completely independent. This makes it hard to gain audience. The goal of Truegit is to bring the social components: likes, comments, follow a blog etc. We want to make it Medium like publishing platform powered by Github. AFAIK, there's no platform that enables this. Thanks for the Show HN tip!!

mister_goo 4y ago

I'm just curious because Cloudflare seems to offer the same service. And Github itself can publish pages. How do you compete with them?

quantdaddy 4y ago
Deploying a blog is so easy and there are a myriad of tools. However, they are just tools: self managed or not. They do not bring the audience to you. The goal of Truegit is to bring the social components (WIP) to your blog: likes, comments, follow a blog etc. This is what makes Truegit a platform and not just a tool. We want to make it Medium like publishing platform powered by Github.