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Write.as mentions (58)

• Introducing the Write.as MCP Server: Anonymous Publishing Gets AI Superpowers

  The Write.as MCP Server transforms how AI systems interact with Write.as, the minimalist blogging platform beloved for its simplicity and privacy-first approach. By implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP), this server enables LLMs, agents, and applications to create, retrieve, and manage anonymous posts without requiring any credentials whatsoever. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one

  There's a ton of those platforms, varying from extremely unknown to fairly well established. I'm pretty sure multiple of them end up as a Show HN every year. The only thing on your list they generally don't do is domain registration, but keeping that separate is generally a good thing. Sibling mentioned bearblog.dev, I'll mention write.as[1]. [1]: https://write.as/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• WriteFreely: An open source platform for building a writing space on the web

  I'd noticed some years back that this project seems to have started with a pretty strong anonymity story: https://write.as/ That seemed to diminish in emphasis a few years ago, stopped accepting accounts that didn't give you a credit card end of 2021, and some year recently (last year? I forget…) seemed as though the warrant canary missed a couple updates. (It's up to date now, with an assertion of no warrants... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• WriteFreely: An open source platform for building a writing space on the web

  From what I understand, Mastodon is to Twitter as WriteFreely is to WordPress.com/Medium/Blogger/etc. Fediverse-aware, open-source, with a flagship SaaS hosted instance available at https://write.as. If microblogging hadn't fried my brain and I was interested in spinning up a longform blog, this is the software I would choose. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Researchers, please replace SQLite with DuckDB now

  Substack has problems too. For hosted foss services, write.as (https://write.as/) and bearblog (https://bearblog.dev/) are good. If self-hosting, the choices are infinite. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Pagecord mentions (13)

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (September 2025)

  I’m working on Pagecord. Blogging as easy as sending an email. https://pagecord.com Pagecord is free with a very full-featured (and cheap!) premium package. Email newsletter, custom domains, privacy-respecting analytics etc. Source is available. Ruby on Rails: https://github.com/lylo/pagecord. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• Typepad Is Shutting Down

  Wow that's an incredible amount of views. And an incredible shame at the same time. If you want to try out my app Pagecord (https://pagecord.com) I'd happily try and help you migrate over. Biggest problem is the death of the *.typepad.com domain though. I wonder if they'd be willing to add 301 redirects for a year or three? One can hope... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2025)

  Pagecord! Publish your writing effortlessly. All you need is email. Blogging, micro blogging, email newsletter, etc. Freemium, Open source, Ruby on Rails. https://pagecord.com. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Ask HN: Small bootstrapped founders – how do you prioritize resource allocation?

  I don't have a plan for https://pagecord.com. Life's too short. YOLO, etc. My app is relatively feature rich right now so I would say I spend a lot more time on marketing. I still add features of course (and they are a form of marketing), but with AI help these take a lot less time than they used to. Trying to figure out distribution channels, build awareness and so on is the hard yards in 2025. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: If not Kubernetes, what do you use to run your apps?

  I have a single server running https://pagecord.com. I use Hatchbox on a Hetzner server. I wrote a bit about it here: https://olly.pagecord.com/migrating-the-pagecord-rails-app-from-aws-to-hetzner-373cf4cc I have plenty of paying customers but I still think K8s would be complete overkill at this stage. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago