Markdown is a very powerful tool for creating blog post and this is where devblog won my preferences. Plus, content I see is almost always I am interested in due to the tags option.

Indeed great initiative Sandeep ! I have my personal blog and I use Medium to repost my articles. How devblog will help me here. I want my articles to reach larger audience, at the same time not suppressing my original blog.

What is your business model? How do you earn to pay for the resources and infrastructure to handle all these? Is there any pricing model?

Sandeep PandaHow Hashnode generates revenue to keep up with its operation costs?

This is a great initiative. I am one of the early users who were lucky enough to get a medium publication on my domain, but I need to change the domain to something else. Medium support says that it is not possible, and I'm looking for a better alternative to move the content to a new domain while preserving all links to my previous articles.

I hope this will satisfy my need, assuming that it's going to last long :)

Sandeep PandaDoes HashNode have the option to set the canonical URL? That's useful for sharing posts here without hurting original post SEO

I like to use medium mostly because of the insane reach it has, not because of the editing tools or the look and feel. My current workflow is to write the post on my blog (so that I own the domain and the source of truth) and then syndicate the content to other platforms like Medium, Dev.to or Hashnode.

I value the "you own the content" approach, and that's why I want to own my own content. I use jekyll/gatsby + github pages. It supports markdown, is pretty accessible to most developers, and other than the custom domain, it's free. How do you see this model compared to what the Hashnode developer blogs offer?

I think there's viability in a blog platform for developers, both from an audience as well as from the tooling (e.g. writing code snippets in medium is a PITA). But I'd be particularly concerned with the long-term viability of your blog platform. If you don't plan to have a paywall nor ads, how are you going to ensure your users that it will be around for the next 10 years?

I can't say I know much about Medium but that's certainly interesting about what they've done to their customer base. It's a shame as its trending, a really good thing for developers are to have their own blog where ever it is but with hashnode its nicer in that respect as all of us can help each other. I'm loving all the new features but one thing is popping up on my mind about the usefulness of Hashnode, what does Hashnode want in return especially if you're offering free ssl free blogs for domain transfers etc over?

As much as i'm sure we would all love to think, I'm sure Hash node costs to run quite a bit :)

If medium is also cutting in their ways, I can't see many developers staying on their base for much longer when Hashnode is taking off ;)

I'm loving the new blog offering, writing in Markdown is great it means I can write my posts in my note app of choice and simply copy it over.

Likewise writing it directly is a pleasant experience too, Thanks for doing such an amazing job!