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21 points·ecthiender··9 comments

Interesting to see this again. This has been on the front page 3 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20060549

Because it is so good it should be posted again

It's easy to make a blog. It's very difficult to match the SEO results and network effect of Medium.

If you want people to see what you write, and you aren't already famous, Medium will put your content in front of more people than a self-run blog.

That is Medium's real competitive edge. It is hard to get your blog noticed. If you want to beat Medium, you need to beat them at that.

Are there many people who go to medium directly? I've only ever gone there because someone's linked to a post here or on Reddit. Which is something you could do for your own blog's post.

But seems like that recently has changed. Now the paywall-ed articles are shown more to people[1]. So even authors with large number of followers don't get their articles shown to their followers.

> It is hard to get your blog noticed.

I think if you write good content, and post it on good programming communities like HN or Reddit, I don't think its that hard to get it noticed.

[1]: https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/we-just-moved-off-of-me...

Edit: formatting

Show HN discussion on this from 2 days back : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20060549

Is adding new posts easy?

As with most static site generators, it's generally just a markdown file with some frontmatter metadata, but that's it.

Looks like the answer is yes: https://github.com/mathieudutour/medium-to-own-blog/blob/mas...

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