Why am I building IndiePubStack?

I've been using Substack for my tech blog and newsletter for a while.

As a developer, I truly believe that sharing knowledge through a newsletter is one of the best ways to grow an audience — and eventually monetise your efforts.

Substack is built for a general audience, not devs. I was missing code highlighting and minimalist design.

I wanted to build something dedicated for developers:

- open-source, free to use, self-hosted

- beautiful code highlighting

- markdown-first writing

- clean, minimalist design

- dark mode support

I believe that an open-source model is a great way to build a product. IndiePubStack is:

- fully open-source and free to use (MIT licence)

- designed to be self-hosted (Docker image distribution)

- built on top of reliable services (Kinde for auth, Resend for email delivery)

All you need is an inexpensive VPS and a domain name, free Kinde and Resend accounts (that will be enough for a long time).

I'm already using IndiePubStack for my personal blog and newsletter.

The future depends on the community feedback, if the open-source project gets some traction, the next logical step will be to build a SaaS platform on top of it.