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Ákos Kőműves · 2021-06-25T09:37:00.492Z

My story begins on WordPress in 2008. Here's my first-ever blog post. 🙀 I was writing a ton. In 2013 I left the platform. I realized I wanted more freedom, more customization, markdown, my own template, GitHub pages, all the cool things. What I didn...

Thanks. I didn't know about the free custom domain, so when I saw your post, I moved to HashNode. IMHO Medium is cool and the audience is the biggest, however, the business model does not make much sense but it is their decision. Dev.to is a mess and there is no true engagement. Even Google is not indexing it in full.

Glad to see you here, Jorge. Yeah, I evaluated all those, and sometimes I keep revisiting them, but nothing has changed in the past 2,5 years on the other platforms, while Hashnode shipped and keeps shipping features, such as the visual editor, the Grammarly integration, and the AI-assisted writing.

In my research, I found Substack and Hashnode were good enough to get started with tech writing. Medium is fine but its too crowded and its for everyone not especially for coders.
For me, this transition took no time. It was instant, domain was propagated. In-fact I also wrote a post [made video as well] about it.

I had a very warm welcome even before posting a thing Ambassadors reached out to me on Twitter

I'm afraid :) in my case no one cared Not even yet, no one reads so noone comments 😂 lol

May be you already have a good following on twitter thats why they contacted you because if you're on the board then people who follows you would get influence.

But still I genuinely appreciate Hashnode's endeavor it's good. I like it except one or two things which I can live with for now. They keep adding features and I hope they will surpass substack soon.

May be you already have a good following on twitter

This is possible, but I was also vocal about the things I couldn't figure out on Hashnode and tagged them on Twitter.

They have a weekly newsletter where they feature articles that could be interesting for the community and often feature new blogs.

Remember, you don't write for the comments but to build yourself and others a library of your knowledge and experiences.

Set up GitHub backups so you'll always have access to your articles, even if you leave Hashnode one day.

Ákos Kőműves Agreed. Yeah, I enjoy writing that's why I keep on doing it, for not sake of comments.

I just wrote that to express my opinion on what I felt before signup [by reading their sales letter lol] and after signing up.

Anyways I also like journaling for a long time, enjoy doing it.

I am having a hard time getting traffic on hashnode, despite sharing the blog link on twitter, views are around 10-20 . However, on dev to, I can get over 100 views without any external promotion. is there something I am missing? other than not having a custom domain?

Good question, it could be that most of the people I follow on Twitter are also on Hashnode so maybe that's why. For example, this article was heavily promoted by Hashnode for obvious reasons.

Hashnode really is good all developers should join it 🙌

It's a got a great community no doubts!

Thanks for sharing your journey with us Ákos Kőműves!

I can relate, I usually fall prey to making minor tweaks to my website or even renovating it from scratch. It’s reassuring that I’m not the only one.

Glad you liked it Zsolt Gömöri!

If you enjoy tweaking your site and you learn something from it, you should absolutely continue doing that.

For me, it was only an excuse to do something instead of writing.

It just took me a really long time to admit it to myself.

Medium allows you to cut-and-paste screenshots, though.

If you're doing a lot of them, the extra step of saving/loading is quite cumbersome.

Ákos Kőműves

Oh, wow, it worked! I was trying Sunday to post an article and it was so hard to do the cutting-and-pasting I gave up. OK, I'll give it another try.

Ákos Kőműves Gah! But no caption possible?

Blake yeah I couldn't use captions either. It's OK for the images inside the post maybe, but would be cool for the hero image - mostly because of attribution.

Glad we're having you here, Ákos Kőműves! 🙂

Yes, yes! Welcome to Hashnode, Ákos Kőműves.

I am looking forward to reading your articles and connecting with you. 😃

Thanks and I'm thrilled by the great community you're building here! Great job!

Awesome, good to have you here Ákos Kőműves!

Thank you Kamil Gierach-Pacanek 🙂

Gladdd to have you heerreeee! 🔥

Looking forward to reading your awesome articles! 🙏

Thanks, Catalin Pit 🙇‍♂️ happy to be part of this.

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