Bear
Web and SaaS
blogging platform
SHOW HN2020
685points
349comments
#19of 3,028 in 2020
Top 1%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
14 positive, 53 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 43 critical, out of 111 comments about the project. Thread score -0.23.
Design: 6 for, 18 againstIdea: 3 for, 12 againstExecution: 0 for, 9 againstDocs: 1 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Minimal, fast pages and clean landing page
From 3 comments
Landing page is straight to the point, describes what is different about Bear, and links to an example blog. Great! The only question I still have is what is the editor like?
azhenley on HNI like the lighthouse numbers a lot: https://twitter.com/asculthorpe/status/1265374476100947971 Performance: 100
PatrolX on HNThat landing page is beautiful.
ravenstine on HN
Objections
Cannot be self-hosted
From 1 comment
You can't self host it, otherwise you'd be better off writing your own basic HTML pages or using a static site generator. You can check out the source code on github though…
HermanMartinus on HN
Unclear long-term survival and data export
From 3 comments
I am glad that people are creating these services, but I always see a problem with this: what happens if the developer can no longer maintain the service or does not scale…
meerita on HNThis looks exactly like what I've been searching for all this while. Do you plan to release a self hosted/open source version of this? The one thing that makes me uncomfortable…
grwthckrmstr on HNThis is great. Is there a way to export your data? This would be the only thing stopping me from using the service.
dylanz on HN
Default styling is hard to read, Garamond font criticized
From 3 comments
I appreciate the no-bs lightweight website sentiment as much as anyone, but I think there's also something to be said about drastically improving readability with some…
lazyload on HNI've not worked out when firefox reader view is visible and when it isn't, but for this blog it isn't, which is a shame because I find the chosen font unreadable.
eterm on HNChange the font from Garamond and that will eliminate 50% of the style complaints. I’ve always found Garamond text online hard on my eyes.
Antecedent on HN
Requests
Self-hosting or open source version
From 3 comments
Is it open source? Could I self hosted it?
aloisdg on HNSo can I self-host this? The comparisons make no sense if I can't self-host the thing.
katktv on HNI might like it if I didn’t have to sign up, and if I could self host it.
samaxe on HN
Better default stylesheet and readability
From 2 comments
I love that this exists, I wish I'd thought of it first, and I like you for making it. I think you should improve the default stylesheet a bit, I like…
StavrosK on HNThis is cool! As mentioned in other replies--some small styling tweaks for readability would be useful and would literally only cost bytes (on the order of the x-clacks-overhead…
torgoguys on HN
Export of content
From 2 comments
Does anyone know a blogging platform that allows you to export your content as a standalone static site and or markdown/csv?
pvsukale3 on HNThis is great. Is there a way to export your data? This would be the only thing stopping me from using the service.
dylanz on HN
Questions
Pricing and limits on posts and images
From 1 comment
What are the limits on number of posts, post size, images...? What is it going to be priced at? Will there continue to be a free tier if/when it becomes paid? Sorry, I can’t try…
AnonC on HN
Whether it supports RSS or Google Analytics
From 2 comments
Does it have RSS?
brainzap on HNHey a quick question Do you think can I host it myself. I really like the platform and can this support google analytics.
mraza007 on HN
Alternatives named
Write.as, txti.es, telegra.ph and similar minimal writing tools
From 2 comments
For other similar-ish related tools/writing platforms: * https://write.as/ * http://txti.es/ * http://telegra.ph/ * https://txt.fyi/ * https://verbatim.link/ *…
keb_ on HNhttps://txti.es/ comes to mind, but I guess its lack of account system makes it not very blog-friendly.
IAmNotAFix on HN
Blot, Ghost and Hugo/Jekyll static generators
From 3 comments
https://blot.im/ might be close to what you want. I think it's run on ec2 instances though.
regynald on HNnice initiative ... something which reminds me of ghost ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
sumeetk on HNThe comparisons are all to large content management systems. However this seems like a better fit for static site generators. Would it be better to compare to Jekyll, Hugo, etc?
SquareWheel on HN