The sites are simple and easy to set up. Feel free to give it a try and let me know what you think!
[1] https://youtu.be/pYVEIX7nSEs?t=769
[2] For those unfamiliar with the vtuber scene: This video is not AI generated. She's a legitimate content creator; the views and subs on that video are real and organic. She's a real human with a video camera and face tracking that maps her real human face's expressions and movements onto an anime character model in real time, broadcast on a livestream. There's a whole ecosystem of supporting software, specialized model artists and riggers, agencies that provide all sorts of support to individual creators in exchange for a cut of ad / superchat / sub / merch / event revenue...the vtuber rabbit hole goes quite deep.
Friend has encountered things like people uploading illegal content and then reporting to hosting provider or various terrorist or political organisations publishing their manifestos and vile content then making death threats for taking it down and so on.
Also no ads, means how the platform is going to survive once provider runs out of money or figures out it is not as easy as it looks like?
Is the goal to have your website/blog only for friends or also for strangers? If its the second I think it would be nice to display "Random site of the day", "Most visited post of the month" and "Most visited page of the month".
This because i think there is people like me who dont write much but likes to read other peoples blogs and would be great for discovery
One thing I adore about Bear is their discover page. Have you considered adding one?
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.
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!
It's very simple to code (or vibe code) this in a week. Kinda uninteresting.