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This already exists today: no need for funding, no need for self hosting, Microsoft is not involved in any way, beautiful typography, local storage for writing,

by lcnmrn 13y ago

This already exists today: no need for funding, no need for self hosting, Microsoft is not involved in any way, beautiful typography, local storage for writing, nice profiles, stories ranking, a responsive design, made by a designer who writes code. An export to Jekyll feature is coming soon, so you can take the markdown documents to any other platform or just make a blog out of it. Give it a try: http://markdawn.com/ http://markdawn.com/

7schlaefer 13y ago
Excuse me, but what exactly is this supposed to be? I took about 5 minutes to figure out the UI, there are bugs with logging back in after (accidentally) logging out, and it throws what I write in some kind of global timeline thing? EDIT Not to mention the fact that I WANT to self-host!
- lcnmrn 13y ago
  It isn't ready for a "show HN". Global timeline is there for getting exposure. It looks intimidating now, but it shouldn't. Thanks for trying it! Self-hosting and updating an entire web app is not very realistic these days, but exporting in a ready to deploy site is a feature I'm thinking about. It isn't implemented yet. I don't want this to have a private mode, everything is public. You can't guarantee privacy these days. My target is more towards what Medium and Svtble are doing, than WordPress.
  - 7schlaefer 13y ago
    >Self-hosting and updating an entire web app is not very realistic these days, but exporting in a ready to deploy site is a feature I'm thinking about. It isn't implemented yet. Ah, now I get it. That would be a nice feature. >I don't want this to have a private mode, everything is public. Is there a preview functionality? If not, that would be an important feature. >You can't guarantee privacy these days That's true, but you can still give users a little privacy if you want to. I personally wouldn't want to write on that platform without a drafts/preview folder, but that might just be me.
    - lcnmrn 13y ago
      Not sure if you're still interested in the project. But there's an update: 1. Export was implemented. You get a nice ZIP archive with all your .md documents. 2. Regarding preview/drafts — there's one draft which is saved locally on the user machine. You start writing and it's saved automatically. 3. There's a new modern design and profile activity.

by lcnmrn 13y ago

7schlaefer 13y ago

Excuse me, but what exactly is this supposed to be? I took about 5 minutes to figure out the UI, there are bugs with logging back in after (accidentally) logging out, and it throws what I write in some kind of global timeline thing? EDIT Not to mention the fact that I WANT to self-host!

lcnmrn 13y ago
It isn't ready for a "show HN". Global timeline is there for getting exposure. It looks intimidating now, but it shouldn't. Thanks for trying it! Self-hosting and updating an entire web app is not very realistic these days, but exporting in a ready to deploy site is a feature I'm thinking about. It isn't implemented yet. I don't want this to have a private mode, everything is public. You can't guarantee privacy these days. My target is more towards what Medium and Svtble are doing, than WordPress.
- 7schlaefer 13y ago
  >Self-hosting and updating an entire web app is not very realistic these days, but exporting in a ready to deploy site is a feature I'm thinking about. It isn't implemented yet. Ah, now I get it. That would be a nice feature. >I don't want this to have a private mode, everything is public. Is there a preview functionality? If not, that would be an important feature. >You can't guarantee privacy these days That's true, but you can still give users a little privacy if you want to. I personally wouldn't want to write on that platform without a drafts/preview folder, but that might just be me.
  - lcnmrn 13y ago
    Not sure if you're still interested in the project. But there's an update: 1. Export was implemented. You get a nice ZIP archive with all your .md documents. 2. Regarding preview/drafts — there's one draft which is saved locally on the user machine. You start writing and it's saved automatically. 3. There's a new modern design and profile activity.