====== Blogging Platforms ======

Platforms for publishing on the personal web — ranging from zero-cost playgrounds to fully self-hosted.

===== Pika =====

[[https://pika.page/|pika.page]] by [[https://goodenough.us/|Good Enough]]. Free tier: 50 posts. Paid: $6/month or $60/year.

Features: image uploads, custom theming, guestbook (up to 50 entries), CSS customization, Mastodon verification, export. Strong writing experience.

The 50-post free limit is a feature: "At that point, you're serious enough about your craft and public presence that you owe it to yourself to find a better solution."

**Other Good Enough tools:**
  * [[https://letterbird.co/|Letterbird]] — contact form without exposing email
  * [[https://albumwhale.com/|Album Whale]] — shareable album lists
  * [[https://beta.quack.page/|Quack]] — share rendered Markdown

===== Bear Blog =====

[[https://bearblog.dev/|bearblog.dev]] — ultra-minimalist, text-only, Web 1.0 aesthetic. Free.

===== omg.lol =====

$20/year. Paste page, redirect page, status page, weblog, email forwarding, social profile. See [[https://home.omg.lol/|omg.lol]].

===== 100 Days to Offload =====

A challenge by [[https://kevquirk.com/|Kev Quirk]]: publish 100 posts on your personal blog within 365 days. Any length, any topic. [[https://100daystooffload.com/|100daystooffload.com]].

One participant saw 20–30x traffic increase, with individual posts reaching 250x normal daily traffic. The [[https://100daystooffload.com/#hall-of-fame|Hall of Fame]] includes people who've done it four times.

===== Self-Hosted Options =====

See [[indieweb:hosting|Hosting & Domains]] for NeoCities, NekoWeb, and self-hosting lists.

===== See Also =====

  * [[indieweb:principles|IndieWeb Principles]]
  * [[indieweb:start|IndieWeb]]
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