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This reminds me of the now-obsolete "Windows Live Writer"[1], where you could write everything on your Windows machine and "push" it to Sharepoint, Blogger, LiveWriter, Wordpress and much more. Ultimately, it got an open-source fork called "Open Live Writer"[2].

It sounds like a nice idea - a "Live Writer on steroids". Could be neat.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Writer

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Live_Writer

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For anyone wanting to take it for a spin, openlivewriter.org seems to be down since at least May, but .com works, and is also maintained by the same people.

https://openlivewriter.com/

https://github.com/OpenLiveWriter/OpenLiveWriter/issues/911

This is a Windows only app. Is there any similar app for Linux?

Might run on WINE.

Also since it’s .net it may compile/run with the Mono natively on Linux/Mac.

Did not run on Wine for me, sadly.

https://userbase.kde.org/Blogilo

Publii, Open-Source CMS for Static Site. For Linux, Windows & Mac OS. https://getpublii.com/

Haven't tried it but looks good.

More Linux alternatives: https://alternativeto.net/software/publii/?platform=linux

I have been using Windows Live Writer since around 2008 on a WP blog and just recently switched to Open Live Writer. I can't think about blogging without this tool. The fact that it allows me write offline and push my article to my blog with proper formatting is a big plus for me.

There was a Firefox extension called "ScribeFire" which did this and seemed somewhat popular. I used it for a while in the mid-2000s.

It looks like the Firefox extension isn't around, and the corresponding Chrome one [1] doesn't actually work any more and was last updated in 2014.

I suppose things were simpler back then when services had slightly more open APIs.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scribefire/elkkomi...

Thanks a lot! Yes, Open Live Writer sounds very similar to what I'd be making. To be honest I hadn't heard of it.

Honestly it doesn't sound like what you're describing. It's an editor and publisher for WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Moveable Type, etc. Basically MarsEdit but for Windows.

What you're describing seems to be bundling an editor, a static site generator, an S3 syncing service and an S3/Cloudflare onboarding guide.

Thanks, yes you describe my concept quite well. Admittedly i'm not very familiar with OLW so made some assumptions. So perhaps it could be said that if i developed my idea, there's more 'value' in it than OLW in that sense.

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