Joost Jansky

Effective today, all Blogody plan prices have been drastically reduced, now starting at only $5/month. This was possible through significant technological improvements that reduce our server costs.

The all-new Blogody landing page has finally been released and set live. This insight article uncovers the thoughts that went into building it and shares some of my views on the future of independent publishing.

Starting today, free lifetime creator accounts are given to people affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In addition, we match donations to the Return Alive Foundation up to 1.000 EUR.

Easily enrich your content with video embeds from youtube, vimeo or other popular platforms. Video players are directly integrated into your articles and can be viewed without leaving your blog. They are also included in your newsletters.

With our few essential tips and best practices you can easily boost your email sender reputation to top tier. Learn how you can proactively monitor your email reputation and use this insight to grow your own authentic audience: newsletter subscribers who are craving to read your next publication.

Today I am announcing a big milestone for Blogody: easy newsletter creation and publication! Whether you want to send your blog posts to your email subscribers or want to launch an independent newsletter: directly connecting with your audience has never been easier.

If you are following this newsfeed, you already know that audience building has become a new strategic focus for Blogody. Today, I am announcing the delivery of the very first membership feature: subscriptions. Start growing your own audience with Blogody today!

This newsfeed mainly covers new Blogody features and announcements, but from time to time, I also write about questions that get asked frequently. Today, I am going to write about the the following question: »What's the difference between a Post and a Page?«

Blogody started out as a minimalist blogging platform focused on content ownership. The same concept is going to be applied to audience building: with tools for growing your own audience. Find out what's behind this new strategic focus.

A state-of-the-art lazy blur-up placeholder technique for feature images now significantly improves perceived loading performance. This feature is delivered to all users and works out of the box - no configuration needed. Learn about what makes Blogody's solution special.

The ability to upload images into your Blogody posts has been a long awaited feature. Starting today, image uploads are fully integrated into Blogody. This is the second article of the series on how to best work with images in Blogody.

This is the first article of a new series on working with images in Blogody. Learn about what you can do with images in Blogody today. From the integrated Unsplash image selector to adding images from your private photo gallery, there are many ways to make your articles stand out.

You can now use webhooks in Blogody to trigger external actions. Webhooks are a powerful tool to automate workflows and connect with other apps, without the need to write code.

It's been a really busy month after releasing Blogody to the public and I am very excited to welcome you all! With so many things going on, I'd like to give you a quick overview about the major developments.

Due to popular demand, Blogody now supports GitHub OAuth authentication in addition to the already available options.

I am introducing a small enhancement to the publishing workflow in Blogody today. It gives you more fine grained control over your articles and pages after they have been published.

Blogody is dedicated to give you full control over your own data. The convenience of a SaaS platform should not compromise your data rights. The new data export feature lets you save all your project data into a portable text file. This includes everything, from settings to posts.

I am excited to announce Google Analytics support in Blogody today. This is a much requested feature that allows you to attain deep insights into your blog traffic. It's an essential tool for growing your audience.

The Blogody API Client makes pulling data from headless Blogody a breeze. It serves two major purposes: easy data fetching from Blogody into your JavaScript/TypeScript projects and demonstrating the use of the Blogody GraphQL interface.

Blogody has been released in alpha stage and is now live! Create and publish your blogs easier, faster and more secure. Publish on a global CDN edge in seconds.

Big news: Blogody is going to be released on August 7th, 2021 on Product Hunt. Why a new blogging platform? Because I couldn't find a blog system that was easy to use, blazing fast, builds almost instantly and puts content creator rights first.

Never heard of On-demand Static Regeneration? No wonder! It's a new acronym that we invented for this article in order to describe an exciting new evolution of how we can generate and publish blazing fast static web sites on the web.

An inside look into the making of a flexible Rich-Text editor that will be shipped as an integral part of Blogody. It's been a bumpy path to choose the editor technology best suited for modern publishers. Sneak preview into the final result...

The Blogody landing page has been set live. If you sign-up now, you'll be notified of the first Blogody pre-release and recieve early-adopter benefits.

The new blogging platform that I am creating is called Blogody. Learn how I came up with that name and what might help you in creating great names for your own product ideas.

Every advancement during the creation of Blogody is now follwed by a short announcement on this page. Sometimes, an announcement will also be accompanied by a blog post on Jamify.

I am going to create a new blogging platform in 2021! It will allow publishing articles with Jamstack benefits built in: namely extremely secure and blazing fast sites. No code or development skills needed. For publishers who want to focus on writing and care about their content ownership.