--- title: "Hashnode: a blog that gets cited by ChatGPT, Google and Perplexity" description: "Get cited by AI. Start a blog on your own domain, written by you or your agents, and built so Google, ChatGPT and Perplexity can read it and cite it. Free to start." url: "https://hashnode.com" --- # Own your words. Get quoted for them. A blog on your own domain, written by you or your agents, and built so Google and AI assistants can read it and cite it. [Start your blog, free](https://hashnode.com/login) 1.3M+ blogs started on Hashnode ## Search changed. Fewer people click. More people ask. An answer cites a few sources and skips the rest. The post that gets cited wins the reader. - 15% → 8% Google visits that end in a click, once an AI summary shows. Pew Research, July 2025 - 9.5B Visits to AI assistants every month, up 70% in a year. Similarweb, July 2026 - 25.7% How much fresher AI-cited pages are than Google's top results. Ahrefs, July 2025 ## A complete blog in a minute. Yours to keep. Free, with unlimited articles. Every post exports as Markdown, so you can leave any time and take all of it with you. ### Hosted blog Free Live in a minute on your own hashnode.dev address. Pick a layout, light or dark, and you're done. ### Your domain, your frontend Pro Pro adds privileges to a publication: map your custom domain and we handle SSL, or use the GraphQL API to run your own frontend. Your coding agent can build it with the Hashnode GraphQL skill. - Next.js - Astro - React - Nuxt ### Every image, on a fast CDN Free Upload once. We compress it, convert it to WebP and resize it for every screen, served from our global CDN. ### And everything else a blog needs. #### Write - Markdown editor - Code in 25 languages - LaTeX and Mermaid - Embeds, tables, images - AI writing tools Pro #### Publish - Series, tags, pages - Comments - Team roles, review - Scheduled posts Pro - Bulk import Pro #### Get found - Sitemap, RSS, JSON-LD - Social cards, built in - Built-in analytics - GA, Plausible, +7 - In the Hashnode feed #### Own it - Custom domain Pro - GitHub backup Pro - Webhooks Pro - No branding Pro - Posts as Markdown ## Agent-ready. Search-ready. Every blog, out of the box. Readers get the page. Agents and search engines get what they need to cite it. On every plan. - A Markdown copy of every post - Structured data and sitemaps - RSS and social cards, built in Hashnode Pro ## Your domain. Your agents. Your rules. Everything a serious blog needs, per seat. Agents get the same tools you have, and you choose which ones connect. [Get Pro, $5 a month](https://hashnode.com/login?callbackUrl=%2Fpro) About the price of one coffee a month. [See what Pro includes](https://hashnode.com/pro) ### Connect any agent in one line Agents sign in over MCP with OAuth, so there's no token to paste. They draft, edit and publish with the same tools you have. - Claude Code - ChatGPT · Codex - Copilot - Cursor Also works from the CLI, the agent skill and the GraphQL API. ### Your own domain Point it at Hashnode and we issue the certificate. Your posts build your name, not ours. ### AI beside you in the editor Suggestions change with the draft: outlines on a blank page, tighter prose once you've written. ### You hold the keys Every agent and CLI login is listed in Developer settings. Disconnect one and its access stops at once. ### Also in Pro - No Hashnode branding - Scheduled posts - GitHub backup - Webhooks - Bulk import - AI writing tools - Headless GraphQL API Hashnode Growth Pro included ## See every time ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity cites you. Pick the questions you want to own. Every day we ask four assistants and record who they cite. Then fix each draft with a live AEO score before you publish. [Get Growth, $34 a month](https://hashnode.com/login?callbackUrl=%2Fpro%3Ftab%3Dgrowth) Everything in Pro, plus AI search tools. Per publication. [See what Growth includes](https://hashnode.com/pro#growth) ### See which answers cite you We ask four assistants your questions every day, and show who else they cite. ### Count the readers AI sends Sessions from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude, by day and by assistant. ### An AEO score as you write Eight checks in the editor toolbar, with a fix for each one that fails. ### Also in Growth - Everything in Pro - FAQ blocks with structured data - Rewrite as Q&A - Freshness queue - llms.txt - AI crawler controls ## Write in public. Get noticed for it. Builders use their Hashnode blog to share what they learn. For some, it led to their next job. 10M+ posts published 1.3M+ blogs started 2M+ members > I subscribed to Hashnode Pro. My way of saying thanks as I got my current job thanks to my Hashnode blog. [Jorge Romero](https://x.com/jrlgs/status/1646832964150476801) Software developer Hashnode Pro - > “It’s amazing to see how fast devs go from 0 to Blog under a domain they own on Hashnode.” [Guillermo Rauch](https://x.com/rauchg/status/1434228987979460616) CEO, Vercel - > “They are revolutionizing tech blogging.” [Quincy Larson](https://x.com/ossia/status/1300840840970088450) Founder, freeCodeCamp - > “Powerful, feature-rich and yet easy to use.” [Sandeep Pawar](https://x.com/PawarBI/status/1671508273126862850) Principal PM, Microsoft ## Start free. Grow when you're ready. One blog, three plans. Your posts, readers and Markdown come with you at every step. Writing on your own ### Free $0 forever Start a blog and build your name. Includes - Hosted blog, live in a minute - Unlimited posts, Markdown editor - Agent-ready and search-ready - Comments, series, analytics [Start writing](https://hashnode.com/login) Developers ### Pro $5 a month per seat Your domain, your agents. Everything in Free, plus - Your own domain, SSL included - Headless GraphQL API - MCP, CLI and agent skill - AI in the editor, no branding [Get Pro](https://hashnode.com/pro) Product teams ### Growth $34 a month, Pro included Get cited when people ask AI. Everything in Pro, plus - Citations in four assistants - AI traffic, by assistant - Live AEO score in the editor - FAQ blocks, llms.txt, crawler controls [Get Growth](https://hashnode.com/pro#growth) For comparison: Ghost Publisher is $29 and beehiiv Pro is $95 a month. List prices on yearly billing, October 2026. ## Read what builders write. New and popular this week. 769 articles in the last 24 hours. ### [HTML-in-Canvas: what it is, how it works, and how to use it](https://buildful.ai/blog/html-in-canvas?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=home) HTML-in-Canvas lets a canvas draw real HTML, and the text stays selectable, clickable and readable by screen readers. How it works, the code that runs in Chrome 157, which libraries broke, and where every browser stands. Syed Fazle Rahman · 4d ago ### [Getting Zalo Web to Run in Every Tab with One Socket](https://blog.nh4ttruong.me/getting-zalo-web-to-run-in-every-tab-with-one-socket?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=home) How Zalo Web keeps you to one tab, and how a small extension lets every tab share one connection Nhật Trường · 1d ago ### [Defending an MCP server against prompt injection through CloudTrail](https://blog.jennasrunbooks.com/defending-an-mcp-server-against-prompt-injection-through-cloudtrail?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=home) Microsoft's spotlighting defense in its simplest form, and the layers that make it enough Jenna's Runbooks · 1d ago ### [Git Worktrees + Tuist Binary Cache for iOS projects](https://vbat.dev/git-worktrees-tuist-binary-cache-for-ios-projects?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=home) Work on two branches at once, and cut the fresh-worktree build time with Tuist Binary Cache Vitaly Batrakov · 19h ago ### [How do AI-native developers recommend generating less "sloppy" contributions?](https://webchick.tech/how-do-ai-native-developers-recommend-generating-less-sloppy-contributions?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=home) Improving open source maintainer sustainability by stopping slop at the source Angie Byron · 1d ago ### [PHP Is Not Dead. It Grew Up.](https://www.guywarner.dev/php-is-not-dead-it-grew-up?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=home) People have been calling PHP dead for about fifteen years. PHP has been paying my bills for over twenty. One of us is confused, and it is not PHP. I started in PHP in the early days, when you mixed yo Guy Warner · 1d ago ### [ArchSig: A Tool That Asks Why, Not How](https://blog.iroha1203.dev/archsig-a-tool-that-asks-why-not-how?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=home) ArchSig examines why software works. Explore how Laws and Atoms reveal shared structures, explain design choices, and connect software to mathematics. Hiroyuki Nakahata · 23h ago ### [Why Uppercasing a String Can Change Its Length](https://doogal.dev/why-uppercasing-a-string-can-change-its-length?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=home) Converting strings to uppercase can change their length. Learn why characters like the German ß expand to SS and how this Unicode behavior breaks assumptions. Doogal Simpson · 1d ago ### [Enza’s $6m round: the local payment-route test](https://www.sultanbyte.com/enza-funding-local-payment-route-test?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=home) What Egyptian banks and UAE-based buyers should verify before choosing payment infrastructure for African operations. Hussain Fakhruddin · 10h ago ### [Lighthouse used to punish useful preloads. Framer spent a year fixing that.](https://devlog.apogeewatcher.com/lighthouse-used-to-punish-useful-preloads-framer-spent-a-year-fixing-that?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=home) Lantern treated high-priority modulepreloads and fonts as if they blocked paint. Lighthouse 13.6 reads Chrome’s render-blocking signal instead. Here is what agencies should stop undoing. Apogee Watcher · 10h ago [See everything in the feed](https://hashnode.com/feed) ## Moving from another platform? [See how Hashnode compares](https://hashnode.com/alternatives) - [Medium](https://hashnode.com/alternatives/medium) - [Substack](https://hashnode.com/alternatives/substack) - [Ghost](https://hashnode.com/alternatives/ghost) - [WordPress](https://hashnode.com/alternatives/wordpress) - [Notion](https://hashnode.com/alternatives/notion) - [DEV](https://hashnode.com/alternatives/dev-to) ## Your blog is a minute away. Start writing today. Connect your own domain whenever you're ready. [Start your blog, free](https://hashnode.com/login) - Free forever - No card needed - Export your posts any time