Are you using multiple blog sites?
Hey, IndieHacker Community
Are you using multiple blog sites like medium, hashnode for marketing, or building a brand? If yes How do you manage it, what software do you use for it?
Hey, IndieHacker Community
Are you using multiple blog sites like medium, hashnode for marketing, or building a brand? If yes How do you manage it, what software do you use for it?
No, I don't. I sometimes cross-post to medium. But it depends on what your goal of the blog is. For SEO reasons I'd only post on your domain to get traffic and backlinks going on your domain. You can map your domain to hashnode and have the same benefit (disclaimer: I am working there ;) )
For cross-posting, I use a great CLI https://github.com/shahednasser/cross-post that takes care of that
If your goal is the highest outreach I would go to a place where already your community is. At hashnode, you've got both benefits of your own domain and community 😉
Yeah, I am using Hashnode, it still looks very buggy right now for example if I post something or edit instead of redirecting me to the posting page it redirects to a page where a 404 error comes then when I reload the browser then only I can see that page. another issue was with comments it's like I have to reload 2-3 times to see the updated page of comments. Hashnode has a good community but it still feels like a beta product.
Cross-post is a good tool though but bloggers who are not in tech don't prefer CLI.
Sorry that you get the feeling of being a beta product! We definitely put a lot of work in to bring value to the customer 🙂
Could you DM or comment me your hashnode user here then I can go ahead and check why you see a 404 after posting something.
The comment issue is annoying and we're working on that!
This is true! Maybe a good opportunity to build something :D
Sorry for being harsh about the beta product reference. I really enjoy using Hashnode due to the community around it but I hope my feedback helps you to improve.
@iamsr is my Hashnode username. Thanks
I mostly publish content on the company website (https://bowwe.com/en/blog) related to the company profile - so content about SEO, website design or business activities. Then I usually republish articles on Medium and that's something that works best for me.
Sometimes I publish here as a post if I feel an article might be helpful.
I also recently joined Hacker Noon but haven't published anything yet. If anyone has been successful and has any advice, let me know!
And I transfer it manually, copy and paste.
would you like to see a product that can reduce the overhead of copy, paste & publishing to other platforms from one single channel? Do you feel there is a need for that?
I might be interested in seeing the idea.
drop me a mail at hello@devss.io, I will be needing your feedback and help in the beta phase of the product if you are ok with that. Thanks
I mostly just use medium. But I have been expanding into reddit now for updates on things I am doing within my software.
I have been really happy with medium because I like all the stats features and integrations with jupyter notebooks.
I also write gitbooks for documentation and I can transfer between the blog post and the software docs by copying and pasting.
Mostly nowadays all this stuff is written in markdown so it's not too tough to transfer.
I still see room to smooth the process so people don't have to copy-paste all in one dashboard to manage multiple platforms. How does it sound?
It's not much of a hassle for me to be honest. I actually change the content slightly depending on the platform, and I always keep revising my work. It took me awhile to select these two as my primaries though. Maybe we need an awesome list
For example - same content two different platforms for two different audiences:
Gitbook:
https://sulstice.gitbook.io/globalchem-your-chemical-graph-network/algorithms-and-extensions/smarts-pattern-identifier
Medium:
https://sharifsuliman1.medium.com/using-the-minifrag-database-to-validate-your-smarts-strings-c3bb46ecacd8
Yeah as you scale to more platform than it could be a real headache to manage in all
I do. I have my dev blog (https://how-to.dev/) republished on all relevant platforms I could find:
I'm not very sophisticated with managing it. My writing help (editor & proofreader) convinced me to write my content in Google Docs, and we publish by copping the content over to all platforms. Edits are a pain, and I try to catch all issues before I start publishing.
I am thinking of building a product in this particular niche. If you will be interested please mail me at admin@devss.io regarding the feature and pain points that you want to get resolved regarding this area. Thanks
Yes we are. Some are for writing content to build our company blog. Others are for social listening and curation. We are using Airtable to keep up with the tasks.
As far as having all of your blogs appear in one dashboard, if you use the same username and password on all of your WordPress sites (.com and .org) you can manage them all in one dashboard.
Hope this helps!
for WordPress sites it's easy but if you are using other channels for blogs like medium, hashnode then it's not the smooth process to handle those multiple channels altogether.