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by dsowers 13y ago
Silvrback performs well under stress. It's setup to autoscale when a traffic surge is detected so the platform can easily handle articles making the front page of HN. Unicorn and memcached also really help.
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by dsowers 13y ago
If svbtle isn't quite right for you, check out Silvrback: https://www.silvrback.com/ It's similar to svbtle in its simplicity.
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by dsowers 13y ago
You chose a really nice place to move to. I'm jealous. Be sure to visit Abel Tasman national park.
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Introducing Synchronous Preview: A Better Balance Between Focus and Feedback(dsowers.silvrback.com)
5 points by dsowers 13y ago|0 comments
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by dsowers 13y ago
Really good book. I recommend it as well.
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by dsowers 13y ago
I had the same strategy as this but I realized one important thing: I was spending all of my time looking at the damn charts. The opportunity cost of being constantly distracted and worried about your investment might be higher than the pro
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by dsowers 13y ago
Thank you for this explanation. I'm always telling people the same thing. We should respect the name which the discoverer gave to it.
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Free trials are now available for the Silvrback blogging platform(dsowers.silvrback.com)
1 points by dsowers 13y ago|0 comments
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by dsowers 13y ago
Loved the post. I'm in the exact same position as you. Have 6 months of runway and I've become an independent consultant. I'm also spending the time on my own ideas, like my newly launched https://www.silvrback.com
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Taking a war club as carry-on(dsowers.silvrback.com)
23 points by dsowers 13y ago|10 comments
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by dsowers 13y ago
Just not possible in the sense that a hosted solution has the expectation that everything is managed for you. An open-source solution requires you to do the work of setting it up, configuring, handling traffic spikes, backups, etc...
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by dsowers 13y ago
I apologize if I've missed an email. The last couple of weeks have been really hectic for me. Please send it to me again.
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by dsowers 13y ago
Yeah, you're right. There's always going to be a group of people that want to configure everything themselves and setup their own servers. I'm not really targeting this group with silvrback. Open source ghost would be the bes
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by dsowers 13y ago
If you're choosing between Ghost and Medium, and would like something that is hosted, I recently released Silvrback ( https://www.silvrback.com ). It has the simplicity of Medium, while giving you control over your own brand.
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A business is not like a baby. It's more like Weekend at Bernies.(dsowers.silvrback.com)
6 points by dsowers 13y ago|0 comments
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by dsowers 13y ago
I might be biased, but I think your new blog on silvrback looks way better than your old one. The presentation of your code is much more enjoyable to read, as well. Just my 2 cents.
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by dsowers 13y ago
Just click on "custom domain" in settings and it has instructions for you. If you need extra help, just send me an email.
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by dsowers 13y ago
I'm still playing around with ideas for users to customize their homepage more. Might give the option to show fixed posts or custom date range.
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by dsowers 13y ago
You actually can do this: "I think it would be really cool if you could use the header from the bio page, for the rest of the site as well - then I think it would be less anonymous, e.g.:" In "Settings," there is a field
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by dsowers 13y ago
Hey oellagaard. When you say, "I was also hoping for the possibility to write a synopsis for each blog article", where would you want that synopsis to show up? In the archive? Just curious about this idea. (I'm taking feature
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by dsowers 13y ago
I'm getting a lot of feature requests. So I have to pick and choose. You have some good questions. The tags are there to give the reader extra meaning about the article. For example, you could tell someone to read an article first in t
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by dsowers 13y ago
Thanks. Glad you like it!
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by dsowers 13y ago
I was debating this as well. I'm not sure which method is the best, either. I was thinking that if it were free then I would just get a bunch of 'vanity metrics' rather than active users who are serious about writing stuff an
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by dsowers 13y ago
Ghost requires installation and tinkering (plugins, themes, etc). Silvrback is designed to give you something that looks great and doesn't take up your time. I believe that people shouldn't spend any time building a personal blog.
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by dsowers 13y ago
You have full ownership over your data. I didn't mean for that copyright to suggest anything else and I'm removing it asap.
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by dsowers 13y ago
I'm using this phrase to contrast Silvrback with other content publishing sites such as Medium and Svbtle, which don't give you nearly as much freedom and ownership.
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by dsowers 13y ago
The export option will be there in about 1 week. It's one of the top items on my todo list now. Data liberation is important.
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by dsowers 13y ago
Thanks.
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by dsowers 13y ago
Thanks. Yeah, RSS is included. With regards to promotion, I tweet a bunch of good user posts and I'm also putting together a 'best of the week' posts page for content discovery.
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Silvrback is now open to everyone – high-quality, Markdown-powered blogging(dsowers.silvrback.com)
91 points by dsowers 13y ago|69 comments

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