IndiePubStack

IndiePubStack

Open-source self-hosting Substack alternative for developers

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IndiePubStack is an open-source, self-hosted Substack alternative built for developers. Publish blogs, send newsletters, and grow your audience — all under your domain, with full control and no vendor lock-in. Own your content. Monetize freely.
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Andrey Fadeev
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I've been using Substack for my tech blog and newsletter for a while. As a developer, I truly believe that sharing knowledge through a newsletter is one of the best ways to grow an audience — and eventually monetise your efforts. Substack is built for a general audience, not devs. I was missing code highlighting and minimalist design. I wanted to build something dedicated for developers: - open-source, free to use, self-hosted - beautiful code highlighting - markdown-first writing - clean, minimalist design - dark mode support I believe that an open-source model is a great way to build a product. IndiePubStack is: - fully open-source and free to use (MIT licence) - designed to be self-hosted (Docker image distribution) - built on top of reliable services (Kinde for auth, Resend for email delivery) All you need is an inexpensive VPS and a domain name, free Kinde and Resend accounts (that will be enough for a long time). I'm already using IndiePubStack for my personal blog and newsletter. The future depends on the community feedback, if the open-source project gets some traction, the next logical step will be to build a SaaS platform on top of it.
Andrey Bogoyavlenskiy

Congrats on launching 🚀! Finally, a Substack alternative built for developers.

The open-source approach and self-hosting option are great! I've been dealing with the same pain points.

Good to see you're using it for your own blog, that's always a positive sign. Will be trying this out soon, as the Docker distribution makes deployment straightforward. The dev community needs more tools like this.

One question: any plans for custom syntax highlighting themes? Would be nice to match different preferences.

Andrey Fadeev
Maker

@abogoyavlensky Hi, thanks! Regarding themes it's powered by shiki library (list of default themes are here: https://shiki.matsu.io/themes) and they are all available by default. I'm pretty sure it's possible to create a custom theme as well, but I've not tried yet.