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Comment by armandososa | Hacker News Reader

Tiny Wordpress Killer? That's the worst misleading title I've read in a while (and you'll se a lot of that here at HN). WordPress is a blogging software slowly becoming a full-blown CMS which is easy to host and --arguably-- easy to use.

Toto is a nice simple script that publishes static files to heroku via git. It's interesting, and hackish, and fun, but hardly a WP killer.

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I don't see how your description of WordPress makes it different from Toto.

Toto is blogging software, has a full blown CMS, through git, is easy to host (Heroku), and is easy to use.

Hence, they serve the same purpose, which is of publishing and managing articles in the cloud.

I would argue that it's easy to use for a hacker. For the majority of bloggers, using git and Heroku is probably not a simple or easy task.

How do I use it without installing a bunch of stuff on my Windows computer?

Wordpress is for the masses this is like jekyll alternative rather than wordpress killer.

Yes but how do you use WordPress without installing a bunch of stuff on your computer? You need MySQL and you need a web server to run it, probably Apache. These don't come standard with Windows, so it's not that much easier to get WordPress running locally. It's true that many hosts now offer very easy WordPress installs, but there is no reason why something like this can't be set up for Toto. But as it is right now, Toto is a great WP replacement for hackers.

I think you missed both points. Point 1 was that he doesn't need to install anything on his Windows client to publish to his blog. Point 2 was that Toto is not a WP killer. By naming Toto as a replacement for hackers (solutions for hackers are never killers of solutions for the masses), you are confirming his point.

Unless you're building a site for a client, a user isn't going to install it locally. They're going to pick up some piece of crap commodity webhosting account on Godaddy or Dreamhost, and use the one-click-install.

A WordPress killer has to be useful for the average joe, the soccer mom, the "social media expert". You're not going to take it down with git and gems. This works for a hacker, but that's it.

Both a Blackberry and the command line can be used to read your email. Some people may prefer the command line for a variety of valid reasons, but that doesn't make it a BB killer.

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