hckrnws

Congrats on the launch! Love to see more minimal, single-purpose sites like this popping up. The no-JS, no-ads approach is refreshing.

Two quick questions. On data ownership: do the ToS allow you (or a future acquirer) to sell or commercially use the content people publish on their blogs? And is there a way to export blog posts, say as Markdown? Portability is a big deal for me before committing to a platform.

Will definitely subscribe either way. Nice work.

Thank you so much! The content will always be owned by the users. I'll never use their content commercially and I will also never sell the platform.

The page content is stored as Markdown and I'm working on an export feature to export raw data and also the entire HTML pages so that users can take it with them if they decide to leave paperboat.website.

This reminds me of bearblog.dev, in a very positive way.

One thing I adore about Bear is their discover page. Have you considered adding one?

Definitely a huge inspiration! For global discovery, I'm working on a webring-like feature. Unless users really want it, I'll steer clear of a global feed for now because I'd like users to discover other content more organically. I'm definitely open for ideas, though.

Hi HN! My name is Marv and I made paperboat.website, a friendly platform for personal websites and blogs. I wanted to create a place for sharing interesting things with your friends and everyone else, without all the annoyances most of the world wide web comes with these days.

The sites are simple and easy to set up. Feel free to give it a try and let me know what you think!

Congrats on the launch! I love ideas like this, but curious how this is different than https://bearblog.dev which has been around for a while?

I haven't gone through and created a paperboat site (as I'm kind of drowning in channels at the moment), but I love the aesthetic and the spirit of a stripped down social space. Congratulations on the launch and best of luck!

Thank you so much!

Congratulations on your launch!

Like others have mentioned Bearblog, I'd also like to mention fika.bar, which is a service similar to yours. I wish success to all of you!