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Ask HN: What blogging engine do you use at your startup?
I'm looking towards starting a blog as an offshot of some business ideas I've been having. To that end I need some recommendations and thought I would pick your mind.
What blogging engine do you use at your startup? What advantages does it have?
I'd be hosting the blog myself. I considered rolling my own, would you recommend/discourage trying that?
Thanks for any advice, I'll keep HN posted as things progress.
- cperciva 18y agoI wrote my own shell script -- given my minimalist needs that was much easier than figuring out how to use someone else's blog code.
- rsayers 18y agoI used my own simply because I had already written it and polished it for release before needing it for a business site. If I was starting from scratch and needed something, I would use wordpress and spend my time elsewhere.
- jncraton 18y agoI personally use Django with disqus for comments. It takes less than an hour to create a decent blog engine in Django if you know the framework, although it took me significantly more than that the first time I did it. With disqus, you can easily add a comment system in seconds. For me, Django was the best choice because I use it for everything else and I really like Python. If you are currently using a more typical LAMP stack, then something like WordPress may be the way to go.
- pg 18y agoYahoo Store! Bet I'm the only one.
- nfg 18y agoWould you typically recommend the use of a blog to YC applicants? I suppose I'm seeing it as a simple — but effective and fulfilling — way to build some visibility for the project.
- pg 18y agoIt's worthwhile if you're a good writer, but if writing comes hard to you I wouldn't bother. If blogging is forced it's painful for both parties.
- ivankirigin 18y agoWhy don't you try building a blogging tool in Arc? You could take it as a challenge and try to finish in N hours.
- pg 18y agoI did as the example when I released Arc. It's very simple though.
- brlewis 18y agoYou're probably the only one using Yahoo store, but you aren't the only one using a Lisp-based web app that wasn't originally intended to be a blogging platform.
- pclark 18y agoPosterous. Easy to blog, they host it, pity you cannot theme it (yet)
- Mistone 18y agowordpress and posterous, both rock. wp for general day to day blogging, posterous for mobile blogging, sneak peaks, and other little bits of content I capture on iphone and want to post. twitter as well if that counts.
- hbien 18y agoI rolled my own with Django, which I kind of regret now. A blog is really about the content (in this case, news about your product) and not the technology you use. If you're going to host your own, I'd recommend WordPress. If you don't mind someone else hosting it, try out Tumblr + Disqus.
- unalone 18y agoWe'll probably be designing our own. If we don't, it'll be Tumblr-based.
- ejs 18y agoI usually roll my own, I dont care for most of the features that come with... and its easier to add my own features (like this one: http://codeachrome.com/blog/post/2-add-ruby-code-to-blog-comments http://codeachrome.com/blog/post/2-add-ruby-code-to-blog-com...) My problem is that the blog tends to be the afterthought for me, so building a site around the blog is not a features I want or need.
- jacquesm 18y agodrupal. Though I have to say that their policy towards upgrades leaves me underwhelmed.
- spoiledtechie 18y agoBLOGENGINE.NET OR Tumblr.com Tumblr is damn easy, but blogengine.net is damn fun. For Example blog.drinkingfor.com