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Buffalo — Blogging made simple.
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@rrhoover The world certainly does not need another blogging platform/service. But I did :) So that's why I made it. I don't want to blog on Medium because it doesn't look like the way I want it, and also other people's content is in my post (And a few other reasons). In contrast Buffalo gives you a custom domain for free and enables you to remove all the Buffalo branding. So if you're like me and wouldn't want Medium as your primary blog, I hope Buffalo will work splendidly for you :)
@rrhoover @drewwilson 100% spot on.
Most products (on PH or not) don't fill a need, they provide convenience and efficiency or invent "needs" to fulfill.
I've always been in the mindset of solving for my own "needs", and only recently started sharing these "answers" with the world. It's really fun, and cool to see how others have had these same perceived "needs."
I do have one question. When are you gonna set free all your clones?
P.S. Congrats for launching this, it looks awesome!
@mbavio haha! NEVER! they exist for me to force pixels and codez upon! and thanks!
January of this year I bailed out on normal life, sold just about everything and bought an RV. Now my wife, 3 kiddos and I live on the road and are traveling the US for all of 2015. Was going to blog about the whole thing, but none of the options out there had exactly what I wanted. So I was going to make a tool for my wife and I to use that would make posting photo-centric blog posts easy. Well, me being me, it turned into a product lol! Never got around to actually building it until last week. 7 days later Buffalo is here! Designed to make positing articles really fast and pretty. Buffalo is a photo-centric and type-tastey blogging platform. More typeface pairings will be added in the future. And currently there are a number of header/hero image stylings. It was all super fun to make. I learned a lot with my previous blogging platform Roon. So this is another take on making blogging super simple. Try it out and let me know what you think!
@adammash oh and you can subscribe via email ;) rad automatic feature on Buffalo.
@drewwilson Plug for Drew and @aeliox's Narwhals podcast. It's informative/fun, and you get to hear Drew and Keiran talk about making/doing stuff.
If this is what 7 days' worth of work looks like, I can't wait to see what this will look like in a month!
Signed up and saved my first draft. Very cleanly done. With some tweaking, this might just be the blogging platform that I've been looking for (the fact that I still have to say that makes me believe there shockingly STILL is a market for this stuff). Happy to give you more feedback @drewwilson!
This is pretty cool. Really easy to publish content. It took me less than five minutes to publish an article that I wrote on my blog see on Buffalo here .
After reading the comments above about Medium I completely understand @drewwilson. One feature that I am really super excited about is the Google Analytics integration. Medium surely does not provide that.
7 days? What languages/framework did you use for this? It took me a few days to build a blogging platform similar to Medium using Laravel and https://github.com/daviferreira/..., wondering how you pulled this off. Great work, and from one dad to another, kudos for pushing out a product while balancing family time!
@avizuber thanks! I have my own personal mini PHP framework I've built and re-used on all my products. Super light-weight and works perfect for me (since I made it ;)
@gigamick eventually it will have a real homepage. For now it's just showing recent posts. Thanks!
@drewwilson I think what you've done and what you're doing is great. Good luck with the product and your adventure!
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Nice product design, btw :)
Great design and product! Especially for just 7 days of work. Can't wait to see where development continues to lead. Congrats @drewwilson !
How about a fun question....why "Buffalo" for the name?
@grantheimbach haha! Truth is: I bought the domain over a year ago thinking "I love the name, maybe someday I'll use it for something." Well that day came :)
@drewwilson I love that this is a product built for you & shared for others to enjoy.
As a designer, I'm curious how you decided on the two column layout for some of the blog posts on desktop. I've played around with this type of layout in the past but I found that it was difficult for users because they had to scroll to the bottom of a page to read the first column then back to the top to read the rest of the second column. Seems to make sense for traditional print, unsure about web. Would love to hear your take on this.
Enjoy life on the road :)
@brettede I made the columned layout optional 2 days ago. So it's up to the writer to make it 1 or 2 now. But Buffalo is different. Ideally you wouldn't put all ur text into 1 text area. You'd break it up using multiple "blocks". Thus making th 2 column work and not be so long. Ex: http://blog.drewwilson.com/all-n...
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