A writing and blogging platform for minimalists.
In 2014 I couldn't find a space online where I was comfortable writing my thoughts. Social media tracked my every move, and most blogging platforms got in my way. So I built that freeing place and opened it to everyone.
We launched our very first native desktop app for Linux, a lightweight editor that lets you publish anonymous posts to Write.as
We launched support for federation via ActivityPub, so people on federated platforms like Mastodon can follow and interact with Write.as blogs. Now anyone can easily create a new federated blog and join the fediverse.
To bring Write.as and Snap.as closer together, we launched a Chrome and Firefox extension that lets you upload photos while you're writing -- just drop in a file, then paste the Markdown into your post.
Adding this bit of functionality as a browser extension means that both the Write.as interface stays clean and that Snap.as is useful even if you're pairing it with another Markdown-enabled writing platform.
Snap.as launched its first dedicated feature, photo albums, as a one-time paid add-on and made its first sale within 12 minutes.
We saw our first month of positive cash flow!
We launched on Product Hunt just as other products like Telegraph and the now-defunct BoldIO were joining the web, so we created a resource for everyone to compare all the anonymous blogging services out there.
In 2014 I couldn't find a space online where I was comfortable writing my thoughts. Social media tracked my every move, and most blogging platforms got in my way. So I built that freeing place and opened it to everyone.