Bloggi
A simple blogging platform
After almost 20 months (and many nights and weekends) of slowly working on it on the side since the initial MVP launch, today I’m super excited to be launching Bloggi 1.0 on ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/bloggi-1-0.
It includes everything I imagined a modern blogging platform should have (well, at least for a 1.0 version, I have many more ideas for it now):
- Easy and simple design customization.
- A simple but powerful WYSIWYG editor that lets you write without distractions.
- An API for developers who wish to build their own front-end.
- And much more, including: tags, static pages, images, code injection, scheduling posts, and of course, using your own custom domain.
A bit late posting it here, but Bloggi can now be used as a headless CMS thanks to the new API and webhook features. My custom personal website is already powered it.
You get the same simplicity of writing and publishing in Bloggi, while having full control over how you present your content.
Read more in the announcement post: https://blog.bloggi.co/api-and-webhook.
Last week I rolled out Bloggi’s biggest update yet, a new WYSIWYG editor! It includes:
- A formatting toolbar (just like Medium’s)
- A blocks menu (insert images, Markdown, or HTML)
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Markdown shortcuts
Check all the details in this post https://blog.bloggi.co/a-new-editor.
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Hola @hernansartorio, creo que eres de Uruguay, yo estoy en Argentina... que bueno encontrar personas de LATAM por aquí.
Quería consultarte, qué estás utilizando para este editor WYSIWYG?
Lo probé en Bloggi y me encanta.
Saludos!
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Hola Jorge, si, lo mismo digo!
Estoy usando SlateJS con React, es un poco bajo nivel pero bastante flexible.
Saludos!
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Integrated with Paddle and finally added a monthly plan at $5/month!
Subscriptions can now be automatically renewed (which wasn’t possible with the previous PayPal-only setup), plus credit cards and Apple Pay are now accepted payment methods. This is all handled through Paddle (wish I had found them before launching!).
More here: https://blog.bloggi.co/monthly-plan
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What about Stripe - why you choose Paddle over Stripe.
Since I've been often told that the pricing was too low, and to accompany all the new features I've been shipping, I announced a price increase for the Pro plan, from $29 to $49 per year. This will only affect new customers.
It's weird to have a blogging platform that doesn't have its own blog, so I finally launched the official Bloggi Blog.
I'll be sharing much more soon (including all the details behind the making of Bloggi). But to start, I published a a recap of all the new features I've shipped since the launch:
It's not much but it's much more than zero (which is where I ended up with some past side projects) and so a huge milestone for me. Especially since it's still lacking many features—but I've been shipping updates since I launched two months and it seems to be slowly paying off.
It took three days after launch but it happened! And today (after another three days) I got my second one :)
It's only $19 per year each, but together with all the positive responses I got from the launch, it's more than enough motivation to keep working and developing my ideas for the project.
Some quick stats about the launch:
I published it on ProductHunt, HackerNews, DesignerNews, Reddit, here, and also sent an email to around 110 people who had subscribed on the pre-launch landing page. Most of the traffic came from ProductHunt, where it reached the top 10 of the day.
I got around 700 visitors on launch day, 400 the second, and so on, for a total of 1700 for the first week after launch. From those, up until today, around 220 people signed to try it. And of those, as mentioned, 2 people became paid customers :)
I have a lot more of work to do now.
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How do you ensure that you are able to keep a site online forever*?
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Good question. Well, if Bloggi gets enough paying customers so that it's profitable enough, I will happily continue working on it for many, many years, and will make sure that it stays online whatever happens. But yeah, I should probably change the word "forever" for something more within this lifetime though :)
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It was just confusing for me as a potential customer that I pay $19 for your 1-year service but I also get to keep my site online "forever". Does this mean uptime, like 100% uptime (no downtime at all for a year w/c even companies like Google and Facebook still have issues keeping it perfect)?
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Oh I see, alright I just removed that line (will go live soon) :)
It wasn't about uptime, but more about the fact that by being a paid service you can be sure that the company is profitable and won't shut down in a few years like most VC-funded companies.
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Good job! You should add a “see an example” link on your landing page, so that a visitor can see what a blog created with Bloggi looks like!
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Thanks! I've thought about it. I already show a screenshot, and it might be a small incentive to sign up, but maybe I'll add one later.
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Good work. You should increase your pricing tho.
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Thanks. I will after I add more features.
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Introducing Bloggi, a simple blogging platform.
You can also check out my launch post on ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/bloggi.
As I mention there, it is still a very early stage version and lacking many features, but I wanted to put it out there and start getting feedback from real users before investing more time on it.
I spent about two months and approximately 135 hours of work from idea to launch. I'll see how it goes and post an update with the launch stats later.
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Love the typography!
I published a post on my personal blog announcing the idea, and published a small landing page to start gathering emails from interested people.
Even though I'm mostly making this for myself, I've learned that it's best to start building an audience and generating interest as early as possible, so I paused development and started focusing on this for a bit.
I added the product and shared the post here on Indie Hackers, and I also published it on Hacker News, Designer News, and Reddit.
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Can you have code snippets using Bloggi?
Yes!