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May I take this opportunity to recommend Epiphany, a new blogging experience tailored for tech content?

https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=2684bc94f9fcb9ffe637ebfbeba2...

Epiphany is a crossover of Jupyter notebook and Medium.com,

Not only can you write text, you can also program on it, to create interactive examples, see:

https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=4c411b8a0b5207739f97e787d2af...

In addition to interactivity, Epiphany implements version control, forking and pull request. You can collaborate with others just like you do on github.

https://epiphany.pub/history?refId=2684bc94f9fcb9ffe637ebfbe...

It also has the social publishing feature as seen on Medium.

Finally, users own their content. Epiphany has a download button to allow downloading all blog data.

The format used by Epiphany, unlike that of Jupyter, is in plain text and is human readable.

disclaimer: I made Epiphany

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Nice project.

Until you implement server side rendering you will have a difficult time getting this project off the ground.

Having your article indexable by search engines is critical for 99.9% percent of people that use these sort of mediums.

that's good feedback. It's a bit difficult, because for security reasons, the dynamic content is rendered within an iframe. But I did do some tricks to let google find the content: https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&sxsrf=ACYBGNQ_Qfod-qU...

But there is certainly room to improve.

I'm going to try it out and share on my twitter if I don't forget about it by next weekend

Btw check your page load time

Thank you for the feedback. Speed is very important.

I’m trying to optimize that. But it’s not that easy for a complex site.

I also need to consider my budget, because it is not funded yet.

But yes, optimizing performance is my highest priority.

What's the catch? I can't find a pricing page. This looks like something that could be potentially more expensive than Ghost.

I want to make an ebook marketplace. the income of the platform will be from ebook sales. If you don't want to sell your blog content as books, you won't be charged.

I don’t think anyone is willing to pay for it nowadays, because now people think that you should be obligated to produce content to educate him and entertain him. However, most of the other parties are not willing to pay if they donate freely. Though someone's class is paid, People want to say that there are other free podcasts...

So it’s really hard for the average person to charge before becoming a celebrity.

I basically want it to be the udemy for books.

You don’t need to write an entire book. the bar is too high for that. You collaborate with others. Each writes one chapter (as a blog). And the blogs can be organized into a book. I have implemented a collaboration workflow.

Marketplace is hard. You need the network effect. I know.

But this platform is meaningful to me, I need it. A few others told me the same.

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