This is a live example of a site built with crofty: you write Markdown, crofty renders a plain static site and deploys it to a domain and accounts you control. No platform in the middle, nothing to lock you in — and you can walk away to plain Hugo whenever you like.
The posts below are just Markdown files in a folder. That’s the whole site.
Writing
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On not going viral
Writing for a few readers who care is better than writing for a crowd who scrolls.
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Markdown is enough
Markdown gives me exactly the formatting a piece of writing needs and nothing more.
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Owning the relationship, not the audience
I do not own my readers, but I can own the way I reach them.
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A quiet corner of the web
This site is a small room I keep tidy, away from the noise of everywhere else.
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Version control for prose
Keeping my writing in version control lets me see how a piece grew, draft by draft.
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The cost of free
A free platform is rarely free; you usually pay with your work and your reach.