Would anyone use a command line blog platform?

4 points·mythriel··8 comments

I want to develop a blog platform for personal use that can manage your blog from the command line and I am curious if other devs would use it.

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Perhaps creating a command line interface for Tumblr / Posterous hosting would work. I wouldn't try to reinvent the hosting platform though, if that's what you're asking.

Hosting one's own blog is trivial, and I'm willing to bet that your target audience is more likely to use a static site generator like Jekyll or Pelican.

Why not add the functionality to an existing platform? Its would be simpler and would grant you a bigger userbase.

I publish my blog with chronicle, a static generator.

In the past I also reviewed several of the popular static-site generators, many of which are designed for blogging:

https://github.com/skx/static-site-generators

I'd certainly be interested.

I thought about this awhile back but never found the time to get anything going. If you end up going through with it post the Github link as I'd like to contribute.

Shameless plug for my own solution, curmudgeon: https://github.com/lharding/Curmudgeon

So, yes. :)

definitly yes! I used vimwiki some bit but lacked some menu and time functionality, although I am sure that it could be tweak to work like a great command line blog platform.

But there are a lot of tool, that take .md files and create a static site with it. Which is a great start, where you could bind a deploy script that could be triggered from vim for example.

The hard part with these static-publishers is handling comments - without outsourcing to disqus, or similar.

Yes

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