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.
See Hosting & Domains for NeoCities, NekoWeb, and self-hosting lists.