MyJekyllBlog VS writedown

I’ve been working on building a web hosting platform.

https://github.com/symkat/MyJekyllBlog - It’s centered around hosting Jekyll blogs. It supports having paid user accounts (Stripe), building sites (uses podman containers), deploying built sites to web servers, obtaining SSL certificates for the sites it hosts.

It’s been really fun to work on.

Thanks!

GitHub Pages is a closed source hosting platform. MyJekyllBlog is open source and MIT licensed.

As far as I’m aware, you cannot spin up your own version of GitHub Pages to host things for yourself and offer those hosting services to others. MyJekyllBlog encourages this and has a guide (https://github.com/symkat/MyJekyllBlog#installation-guide) for setting it up yourself.

The system itself is written in Perl: The panel you use to manage Jekyll files is a Mojolicious app: https://github.com/symkat/MyJekyllBlog/tree/master/Web The source of truth for the system is Postgres with DBIC: https://github.com/symkat/MyJekyllBlog/tree/master/DB The code that runs the builds and deploys things are written as Minion jobs.

The code can be found here: https://github.com/symkat/MyJekyllBlog/

Each blog is its own Jekyll folder, and there is a plugin (https://github.com/symkat/MyJekyllBlog/blob/master/Web/lib/MJB/Web/Plugin/Jekyll/Blog.pm) for interacting with that file system.

Amazing work! Thank you for sharing here.

A while ago, I was making something exactly like this called Writedown: https://writedown.app

It was a free and open source Notion alternative.

I had to leave it midway because my other projects needed attention but maybe I'll get back to it someday :)

I'm using Tiptap on writedown (https://writedown.app)

I really like it. The documentation on extensions is a bit lacking but understandable.

One thing I don't really like is the price increase as you got funding. I thought the plans would be cheaper, not 5-7x more expensive post-funding.

It said in the title it was open source. The code is here :

https://github.com/NayamAmarshe/writedown

The link was on the front page of the submitted page.

I'm building projects to learn new stacks and architectures.

Currently working on Writedown: https://writedown.app - https://github.com/NayamAmarshe/writedown

I wanted to create a note writing app that supports markdown and has sharing capabilities. I usually use a Telegram private channel for saving stuff and writing notes, but Telegram doesn't really support Markdown so I thought it would be a good idea to create something like that.

Writedown is currently a WIP and I'm building in public (doing nothing special, just the repo is public haha)