Platforms for publishing on the personal web — ranging from zero-cost playgrounds to fully self-hosted.
pika.page by 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:
bearblog.dev — ultra-minimalist, text-only, Web 1.0 aesthetic. Free.
$20/year. Paste page, redirect page, status page, weblog, email forwarding, social profile. See omg.lol.
A challenge by Kev Quirk: publish 100 posts on your personal blog within 365 days. Any length, any topic. 100daystooffload.com.
One participant saw 20–30x traffic increase, with individual posts reaching 250x normal daily traffic. The Hall of Fame includes people who've done it four times.
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