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dgam | 2 years ago

I announced Blot on Hacker News almost 10 years ago. Thank you all for helping to get it started. It was a nice surprise to see it posted again here today.

The goal of Blot is to bring the benefits of the static site generator to people who haven't heard of static site generators

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Sephr|2 years ago

Please increase your pricing transparency. I could not easily figure out the price of your hosted service without having to use a search engine.

Blot[1] (open source software) turns a folder into a website, and blot.im offers a hosted Blot service for $5/mo.

1. https://github.com/davidmerfield/blot

lolinder|2 years ago

To be fair, it's very clearly fronted on the Sign Up form, which has a prominent button in the top right corner. A dedicated Pricing page/section would be nice simply because people often look for it, but it's not like they're trying to be sneaky or use dark patterns.

badsectoracula|2 years ago

I second this, in fact from the site i didn't even knew this was something you'd pay for or that it was open source.

slashink|2 years ago

Been a happy customer since 2018! Thank you so much for making it.

wodenokoto|2 years ago

As a HN reader it was a little hard to figure out if this was a static site generator or a dynamic script like those old school php files that turned a folder of images into a image gallery website.

But for your target audience, it might be confusing to compare your service to those.

seventhtiger|2 years ago

This seems like a very nice product.

I wanted to look into the developer guide to customizing a template. It's to add RTL support for Arabic content.

This give me error tho https://blot.im/developers

fnord77|2 years ago

Are table of contents on posts possible?