Papyrus

Papyrus

Modern, blazing-fast, minimal blogging & newsletters

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🪶 Papyrus is a new platform for creating blazing-fast, modern blogs and newsletters. Write using markdown, send posts directly to your subscriber's inboxes, and connect Stripe to start charging readers paid subscriptions for access your best posts.
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Colin Armstrong
Papyrus
Maker
Hey Product Hunters! 👋 I'm excited to launch Papyrus today 🎉 At the start of this year, I set a personal goal to blog more. I wanted to 1) improve my writing skills ✍️, 2) build an audience 👫, and 3) if the stars aligned, start earning a bit of income via paid subscriptions 💸. I looked at the existing blogging/newsletter solutions out there, and none of them quite fit what I was looking for. They had paywalls (Medium), features I didn't need (Wordpress), too minimal a design (Buttondown), lacked transparency (Substack), or cost money even when I wasn't earning yet (Ghost). So, I built my own. Papyrus is privacy-first, with no trackers or tracking cookies. It's ⚡️ blazing-fast and SEO-first: all blogs load and navigate instantly (seriously - give it a try!). And, there's no bloat- just good, modern writing & reading. You can write blogposts in markdown, let your readers subscribe, and (when you're ready) connect with Stripe to start charging readers for access to paid posts. Best of all - we only earn when you earn! We take 5% of paid subscription revenue; but other than that, it's 100% free. We're still in the early stages, so any feedback would be great! Thank you, Product Hunters! 👋
Steven Tey
Dub
@colin_armstrong "privacy-first, with no trackers or tracking cookies", "blazing-fast and SEO-first" – TAKE MY MONEY!! Great job Colin! 🙌
Colin Armstrong
Papyrus
Maker
@steventey Much appreciated! 😎⚡️
Fardeen Khan
Wow clean, minimal and the lighthouse scores are off the chart 🤯! ?makers is it possible to have a subdomain on papyrus rather than a slug URL? and Is it possible to make blog only posts and/or newsletter only posts? + embed form to collect emails? I guess that's a big list of questions, but I'm excited for the product - you have any public roadmap kinda thing?
Colin Armstrong
Papyrus
Maker
Thanks, Fardeen! Subdomains instead of @slugs aren’t possible right now, but we do support custom domains, which is even better! You can make blog-only posts (just untick the “send as newsletter” checkbox when publishing a post). Newsletter-only posts, as well as the embedded email collection form are both on the roadmap though! A public roadmap is a great idea. We’ve been iterating very quickly, so having a central place with all these feature requests and upcoming launches sounds great. I’ll work on putting a public roadmap together!
Fardeen Khan
@slugs @colin_armstrong that's great, would love to know what plans are ahead for papyrus!
Steven Tey
Dub
This has got to be the simplest signup flow I've seen in a while – I was literally able sign up, create a blog, and connect my custom domain in less than 5 mins. Great job on shipping this, Colin! 🤩🙌
Colin Armstrong
Papyrus
Maker
@steventey Thank you, I appreciate it! 😄🙌
Maria
Great! Congratulations for launching! It is very nice project and a platform full of treasures! ^_^ I am wondering is there possibility to search by category and to connect with other bloggers maybe?
Colin Armstrong
Papyrus
Maker
@maria_brm Thank you! Yes, that is absolutely on my backlog :)
Maria
@colin_armstrong Awesome! Looking forward to try it! *_* I wish you luck in future implementations and development! ^_^
Pajé Branding
Very nice!!
Colin Armstrong
Papyrus
Maker
@pajebranding Thank you! 😄
Cart Boss
Looks interesting!
Colin Armstrong
Papyrus
Maker
@cart_boss Thanks a lot!
Ankit Sharma
Great tool and awesome alternative of Medium, Congratulations 👍👍👍👍
Colin Armstrong
Papyrus
Maker
Thanks, Ankit! 👏
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