What blogging platform do you use?

I'd start with a static site. It solves an huge number of performance and security issues and theres a heap of fast free hosting options.

From there I'd look at where you are comfortable. If you're into React maybe NextJS or Gatsby, if you're a Ruby dev there's Jekyll and so on. Find a solution that means you don't spend much time at all looking after the blog itself.

That said, I've started a blog probably a dozen times, then get bored, leave it for a year, and start a new blog when I decide I should do it again... I do my writing just for myself with logseq, so... ¯\(ツ)/¯

I use Ghost for my personal site https://thesaleheen.com & for my product blog https://visioun.com/blog

Ghost is an all-in-one solution for writers.. you can publish, you can run a newsletter or even paid membership. All in one place.

I'm using Hugo. A static website generator. Tons of features that get out of your way and provide value. You do need to have a technical background and the docs are sometimes not as good as they could be.

Contentful with NextJS for clients. Markdown with NextJS for indie hacker projects with limited content and Sanity with NextJS for projects with larger content repositories.

I use webflow for Founderness. It's simple to use, fast and the design possibilities are quite large.

I am running my blog on Ghost - switched from Medium. Currently, I am checking out Typora as a writing tool only and trying to build a lean workflow to integrate the markdown articles as blog posts.

I have a dev blog running on Ghost, it's the default choice for me because:

• All my blog posts are saved to a database as Markdown, and easily exported if I needed to move the content to another platform or something else
• Ghost has a great UI, simple to use, but also fully featured. Gives you a lot of control over things like meta-tags, canonical URLs etc. without needing plugins
• Built-in no-fuss members and newsletter functionality
• It's open-source, so technically if I wanted to I could build an extension for it, or modify the code and run it on my own server.
• Ghost themes are really logically structured and easy to modify when you want to modify your theme

My blog is hosted on the venerable Blogger. Yes, it's out of date but I can teach the old dog new tricks such as syntax highlighting of code blocks.

There's no simple migration path to a more modern blogging platforms I like. But I see an opportunity here for indie hackers: building seamless, one-click tools for migrating Blogger blogs to Ghost and other new platforms.

I'm currently using WordPress for BotMeNot - https://botmenot.com/blog/

It's still a very young blog, but I think I'll be able to get more efficient and put in more and more effort into it.

When I was choosing a blogging platform, I wanted it to have build-in functionality like a good text editor, custom themes(a possibility to edit one). I wanted a ready-made solution because I didn't want to maintain what I've created because it won't be of better quality than what's available there.

I chose Ghost and I like it. It has many built-in things I need. It also manages subscribers to a blog and a newsletter. It's easy to update(I use it as a Docker container). Link.

Ghost indeed!

ghost.org

Unlike most people, my current blog www.lelinta.com is hosted on shopify, but I am learning a static website generator to get a higher open speed blog

I have been using blogger for my blogs https://javarevisited.blogspot.com and https://java67.com, it's great because it's free but I do miss the awesome Wordpress themes which give your blog a more polished look.

I love wordpress. Now I use Gatsby with wordpress as my backend. I have tried sanity, but there are too many features that I have to code in that don't come out of the box. Even if you don't want to use Gatsby, you can get a lot our of just a place Wordpress install with a global cdn service. You can see my blog at askbensmith.com.

Have any of you guys consider adding audio to your blog? I co-founded SaaS that allows such conversion, got more than 200 free trials signups but no paying customers. I’m wondering what bloggers think about this solution.

You can check it out here www.blogaudio.co

My blog is made with Hugo. You need basic HTML CSS knowledge with the need to learn Hugo syntax. But the best part about it is that it has a lot of features and you can tailor the website according to your own needs.

I started by choosing a theme from https://themes.gohugo.io/ and worked on my own theme on the side which made me kick start really fast. The documentation can be insufficient for you at times but you have a huge set of code at https://themes.gohugo.io/ and their forum.

Hashnode 🥰

The setup, design, and audience is amazing there.

WordPress, due to its many functionalities and ease of use. Have been using it for more than 10 years.

This is the blog:
https://academy.birdsend.co

I have not settled on anything so I am building one. It's hey world clone. Follow here for more details https://twitter.com/rajasimon

As others I am using Ghost as well.

It is more likely to be targeted to a "creator" nowadays rather than to a simple blogger.
Meaning you have a easy newsletter setup and members.

You can have members based on subscription and build something like patreon just for your site.
Main benefit: ghost does not take a cut on the subscription like patreon.

The good thing is, you do not have to use these features. You can just blog and you will have a decent performing blog Out of the box.
No hassle with a gazillion wordpress plugins with caching and stuff to improve performance.

I even automated the docker container to pull the latest ghost:4 image every day if available.
No hassle even with self-hosting.

Hi there,

I personally use the DevBlog platform by https://devdojo.com

It has a really nice Markdown editor and it lets you use your own domain name for free. I've written more than 135 posts on there already.

Here is my blog:

https://blog.bobby.sh

I like to keep it simple and go with WordPress. You might in the future you will care about analytics and integrations.

I'd start with Substack and IF I hit any limitations look for self-hosted blogging platforms. to migrate to for more control.

Ghost

I see a lot of people suggesting similar stuff, so I will go another way:

have you considered a newsletter type of a page? Revue will be great for twitter integration, and Substack is also very good. Fits the bill of a simple blog very well with added mailing possibility.

I built my blog using Next.js an MDX and host it on Vercel: https://dsebastien.net

Whatever you do, make sure you use your own domain.

I had been into WordPress for a long time. But I got tired of the complexity of WP.
I ended up creating my own tool: a blog platform that looks and works as a combination of Medium and Notion 🙂

I always set up my own self hosted blogs, despite the fact that I am tempted to write a lot on other platforms.

I did what every coder is told not to do, and built my own blog. It's static, it's simple, I write the posts in markdown. I did also consider Ghost though which looked really good, particularly ability to add memberships etc and build an audience. If I had a blog I planned to monetise I'd probably go that route. Looking at the comments here, it's very popular!

Switched from hashnode to self-hosted blog. It's here https://pankajtanwar.in/blogs. I feel the majority of the available tools restrict the creativity on the blog and as an engineer, I didn't like it much.