Ask HN: How do you blog for your startup/site?

[impostervt]

I tend to develop with Node.js/express using EJS as the templating language, and have several sites with a blog, but I've never found a great solution for keeping the blog in-house.

I tend to use Blogger or Tumblr or something like that, but it's a pain to keep the look/feel the same.

I've seen various static-site generators such as Jekyll, but I really want to be able to reuse my main site's header.ejs - and I haven't found one that does that.

Any thoughts?

[akbar501]

I use Hugo (https://github.com/spf13/hugo) to generate both the DynomiteDB website and blog.

I've tried many different blogging solutions and I find Hugo to be exceptionally easy, especially when combined with GitHub pages.

The current blogging workflow to publish an article is only 3 steps:

vi some-new-post.md && ./build && git push

There are SEO benefits to having your website and blog use the same domain, which is one more reason why we chose this route.

[Huhty]

Wordpress is never a bad choice IMO.

[siquick]

Just switched over to Medium.com with a custom domain.

The writers on the blog love the interface and the added bonus that their articles can get instant exposure to Mediums readers.

[brudgers]

1. Does the time saved by reusing the header.ejs dwarf the time spent searching for and evaluating blog platforms?

2. How hard would it be to build a deploy system that updates a Jekyll site when the header.ejs changes?

3. Maybe a CMS is a better choice.

Good luck.

[crypticlizard]

medium redirected through my domain (which is super cool, check out the signal v noise post on switching to medium...)

TLDR: using medium means you are letting it be easy, and avoiding the cobbler's own shoe type of problem.

[adityar]

blogger redirected to subdomain (blog.startup.com)