[dgam]

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

[Sephr]

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

[dgam]

Fair point – I have just added:

https://blot.im/pricing

[lolinder]

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]

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]

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

[wodenokoto]

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]

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]

Are table of contents on posts possible?

[anigbrowl]

Just what I needed!