Telepost
Productivity
blogging platform
SHOW HN2018
73points
28comments
#597of 2,155 in 2018
Top 28%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Pricing: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Frictionless experience and close Telegram integration
From 2 comments
Created a channel/blog but won't start using it before it adds support for rich formatting (codeblocks, ...). €200/year is ok for me for such a frictionless experience.
andreypopp on HNTele.ga has more features (RSS, sitemaps, etc.) that I still plan to implement for Telepost. The disadvantage of it that is built on top of the Bot API that has limited…
kossnocorp on HN
Good idea for Telegram communities
From 2 comments
I have to pay rent and for the infrastructure. And at the end of the day, this is why IMO you shouldn't have to justify your pricing to anyone who isn't already a-or ready to…
iamdave on HNOps! Sorry about that! :S and thanks anyway :) still I do very like the idea
federicoponzi on HN
Objections
€200/year seems expensive
From 2 comments
Good idea but I am not sure if €200 is a little expensive for this kind of service.
robjan on HNI don't see how your infra could cost anywhere near that much. The blogs could be pushed to s3 for pennies, letsencrypt is free, you could probably leverage lambda for the API.…
vageli on HN
Setup failed for some users
From 2 comments
This is an interesting project, thanks for it! I'm trying to setup a blog, but it get stuck when I click on Continue after inserting the channel username :( I guess my console…
federicoponzi on HNWould it possible to list some demo blogs / accounts here? I have just tried it with no success so far. But some demo page would help me decide how hard to try here
leonardinius on HN
Requests
Rich formatting such as code blocks
From 1 comment
Created a channel/blog but won't start using it before it adds support for rich formatting (codeblocks, ...). €200/year is ok for me for such a frictionless experience.
andreypopp on HN
Demo blogs to try
From 1 comment
Would it possible to list some demo blogs / accounts here? I have just tried it with no success so far. But some demo page would help me decide how hard to try here
leonardinius on HN
Questions
Is the business sustainable with few users
From 1 comment
Awesome. Always happy to see Indie Hackers. One question. Do you make enough money from this to sustain yourselves? I had a blogging platform project in mind but I am not sure…
blocked_again on HN
Alternatives named
tele.ga
From 1 comment
There is also http://tele.ga/about.html. Not sure how it compares
leonardinius on HN