Posthaven is a blogging platform whose main unique selling points are durability and independence. It is a feature-rich minimalist blogging platform that allows you to create a professional blog without any coding. They don't have a "Free Trial" or free tier at all. You either Pay $5 or you don't use their service.
We don't necessarily agree with their pricing policy; they have deliberately chosen to exclude people based on the ability to pay $5/month. We want everyone to be able to use @dwyl to help themselves be more effective ... see: Pricing.
But it really good to know that it's something that enough people are willing to pay for.
Jordan Gonen wrote this post on "Why Posthaven?" https://gonen.blog/why-posthaven
The gist is: it's simple to use and has a durability guarantee.
We need a way to offer a durability guarantee.
We will have RAID-100 for durability of our Database.
And we will build a 1-click download to allow people to get a .zip file with all of their items.
It's on a similar order of magnitude to Medium: https://trends.builtwith.com/cms/Medium
Obviously Medium has a lot more users who write posts on the site without having a custom domain so it's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
But it's certainly interesting how Medium has seen a drop off in popularity in recent months. 💭
There is no shortage of Blogging/Publishing platforms on the Internet. https://www.cmscritic.com/minimalist-blogging-platforms So why even look at Posthaven?
Posthaven is a blogging platform whose main unique selling points are durability and independence. It is a feature-rich minimalist blogging platform that allows you to create a professional blog without any coding. They don't have a "Free Trial" or free tier at all. You either Pay $5 or you don't use their service. We don't necessarily agree with their pricing policy; they have deliberately chosen to exclude people based on the ability to pay $5/month. We want everyone to be able to use @dwyl to help themselves be more effective ... see: Pricing. But it really good to know that it's something that enough people are willing to pay for.
Home/Landing Page
https://posthaven.com
Pledge
https://posthaven.com/our_pledge
Features
FAQ
https://posthaven.com/help/faq
https://twitter.com/posthaven
https://blog.samaltman.com/idea-generation
YCombinator: https://blog.ycombinator.com also uses Posthaven.
According to https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Posthaven 1071 current websites use it.
Obviously https://builtwith.com does not scan the whole internet, just the top few million sites. But it's certainly indicative of the relative popularity.
It's on a similar order of magnitude to Medium: https://trends.builtwith.com/cms/Medium
Obviously Medium has a lot more users who write posts on the site without having a custom domain so it's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
But it's certainly interesting how Medium has seen a drop off in popularity in recent months. 💭
There has been a recent backlash against Medium on HN: (we need to avoid this!) https://hn.algolia.com/?query=medium&sort=byPopularity