Show HN: Calepin - micropublishing for Markdown and Dropbox lovers

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24 points·jokull··7 comments

I know the default theme needs to be stripped down, but I wanted to give HN an early peek. I'm thinking about marketing it as a place to collect your essays and make the default theme list everything by year, one line per post on the front page.

Oh and it runs Pelican (http://pelican.readthedocs.org) - a really nice Python based static blog publisher

I would suggest perhaps swapping the white background of the highlighted box of the signup section and the light brown background of the rest of the page -- the page text is a bit hard to read in its current configuration.

I took your advice and updated the default theme, hit publish to see the new changes.

PERFECT! I was just about to setup a jekyll/hyde blog, but since I don't use GitHub but are a heavy Dropbox user, this comes in just at the right time!

Aaand it looks stunning. And simple. Superb done!

great idea since i am about to setup a jekyll-blog. how do you position calepin: why calepin and not jekyll? and why calepin and not posterous/tumblr/hosted WP?

Calepin solves two problems with static blog generators:

Complexity. You only need a Dropbox account and some knowledge of Markdown. Authoring. Dropbox syncs all your devices together so you can write and edit posts anywhere.

I'm not competing with multimedia blogging. Instead I want to focus on essay type writing, or journalists and academics who want to make their writing public. The default theme, when ready, is going to be a front page with only one line per post, broken down by year.

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