Ernestly

Plain-text short form publishing for startups

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Plain-text short form publishing for startups

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Ernestly is a blogging platform for startups that helps you share each step of your startup journey with bite-sized posts of 1200 characters or less. It's plain-text, image-free and hyperlink-free so you can focus on what you have to say. Built on Bubble.

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Looks great. I like your attention to simplicity and concise content. If you consider images, think about a single image, like your single optional source link. That way, the image adds context to a post, without distraction. Maybe the image is always at the top, or is a preview on the posts in the feed. But give it more than 3 votes before considering adding images 😉👍

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6yr ago

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@josephjguerra Thanks Joseph! Glad you like the design. Totally agree on the images front. Was thinking a single header image. I've had a few other requests for images from the early beta testers and it does make sense from a showcase point of view so I can definitely see that angle - but yeah, it will be interesting to hear some other perspectives. What are your thoughts on adding a profile image for user profiles? Feel like an avatar might be needed to make the profiles more visually unique?

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6yr ago

I had a chance to beta test this, I love the concept and UI. I’m not sure I’m entirely sold on the lack of links and images - but I see the uniqueness of this, and I’m curious to see where it goes.

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6yr ago

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@andrew_davison Thanks Andrew (for the beta testing and kind words). I've gone back and forth on the images and links too. Will be keen to get some early feedback from users on this too. Perhaps that will change if there is demand for these things. Thanks again! 🙏

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6yr ago

I like the simplicity. Links on posts have always been a headache for me. I end up with 30 tabs open and lose track of the main topic. And sometimes authors do that just for the sake of the reference to other sites that will be "thankful" for the link. I started limiting myself to 3 links per post and recently started including them as footnotes only. Lack of images may be a problem for me though, since a diagram here and there may be useful.

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6yr ago

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@jaironpz Thanks for the feedback Jose. Interesting point you pick out there. I do the same thing and end up with a trail of tabs to work my way through. Thanks for the thoughts on the images too. Seems that having at least 1 image is the way to go so I'll probably be adding that in the next release.

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6yr ago

Quite an interesting concept. I think simplicity is certainly the way to go, since we are always overloaded with content. Is this mostly targeted towards founders? What happens if larger teams join in? (I haven't had the chance to beta test yet, but going to give it a go soon)

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6yr ago

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I really love the product, it looks beautiful and is clearly intuitive. That said, my concern about these kindof things is that the idea of writing (at least in this context), is usually to get someone to read. That requires distribution. The fundamental flaw with these kind of tools in my opinion (for startups especially) are not building any owned SEO juice. You're at the whim of the owner of the site. You don't own your own work. You lose time. With that in mind, how do see this being valuable for founders in the mid-long term? While beautiful, I would rather see this as a wordpress theme. Note: I would say the same about Medium 2.0 , which is obviously very successful. But I also recommend against any company or founder giving their content to Medium for free without any real benefit.

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6yr ago

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Hey all 👋 Ernestly is a plain-text, short-form publishing platform for startups with post lengths of no more than 1200 characters. The concept is inspired by TL;DRs. Short posts that are easy to digest but give you all the essential information. It also inspires more frequent writing while forcing you to be succinct. Posts are added to your profile, creating a log of your startup journey. There are no images or hyperlinks to keep it focused on the words and to avoid spam. A single "source" link can be added per post for additional context. There are no comments/likes etc. but every post has a quick-tweet button to allow the conversation to continue on Twitter. It’s privacy first. So there are no tracking cookies used at all.

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6yr ago

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I really like this idea, and the writing focus chimes with a lot of other tools I use (the Remarkable tablet and Novlr on ChromeOS). Will put finger to keyboard shortly. Good work !

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6yr ago

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@nigelgodfrey Thanks so much Nigel. Glad you like it. I'm switching the pricing to free to encourage more sign ups as I think the yearly payment could be a barrier for many and I just feel like free, perhaps with a paid tier is a better fit here.

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