Blogs by Unicorn Platform — Simple blogging tool for busy founders 🕊

Hello, dear Product Hunt community! 🙂
Our team proudly presents Blogs — the new member of the Unicorn Platform ecosystem. It took 7 months of hard work for the whole team and now it is ready for the public.

Fun fact: initially I thought it will take 2 months to ship blogs. Ah, planning was never my strong part!

The editor

The text editor we use is heavily inspired by Notion and Medium. All the basic stuff is there: bold, italic, links, code, quotes, h2, h3, h4, embeds, checklists, images (we autogenerate alts based on the filename if you did not specify an alt explicitly 😌), and hotkeys.
Enough words. Just look:

SEO ready

You have full control over meta tags, social share options, headings, image alts, sitemap.xml, robots.txt. Your blog post is brilliantly displayed on both mobile and desktop devices and protected with an auto-refreshing TLS 1.2 SSL certificate.
Even though we reached 90/100 and 99/100 score on the Google PageSpeed Insights, we constantly work on the loading speed metric (planned updates for 2021: CDN for API requests, images loseless compression, serving images as WebP).

Test it yourself if you do not trust GIFs from the Internet: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funicornplatform.com%2Fblog%2F13-free-illustrations-sites%2F&tab=desktop

We take loading speed seriously because "Speed is now a landing page factor for Google Search and Ads" 🤓

The fusion

The neatest thing is that your blog is seamlessly integrated with your landing page. One source of control, consonant design, one invoice for 2 tools 🙂
And most importantly, you blog will be placed in your root domain.
"Starting a blog? I almost always recommend yoursite.com/blog over blog.yoursite.com." - Rand Fishkin, Moz's co-founder (source).

However, if you want to use another tool for your landing page, you still can easily connect a Unicorn Platform blog to your current ecosystem by attaching a subdomain as a blog root URL.

Customization

Unicorn Platform is a simple tool. We added all the essential settings. The noise is kept aside.
You can customize your blog URL and domain, SEO meta tags, fonts, colors, navigation and footer. That is it.
“How many things are there which I do not want.” – Socrates

However, if you need something special (e.g., embed an Airtable or a TypeForm), you can plug custom HTML right inside a blog post.

What is next

This is not the final form of our blogging module. We carefully collect, sort and store each user feedback and implement it sooner or later.
We are looking for ReactJS ninjas to deliver more features. If you want to make difference — apply! Open the JS console for the details.

Examples

Here are some wildlife examples of blogs running on Unicorn Platform:
http://flexiple.com/blog/ — our Pro user enhanced the blog with some custom code. Looks awesome!
https://unicornplatform.com/blog/ — our company blog
https://isora.me/ — personal blogs too baby, yeah! 😎
https://myteapal.com/stories/

Pricing

We keep it dead simple. So you will get unlimited everything starting from the Startup plan ($18/m).
It includes unlimited website pages, unlimited blog posts, unlimited page views, all form integrations, Stripe integration, and our notorious premium chat support 😈

You can check out the full pricing in the app after signing up: https://app.unicornplatform.com/account

Love you, Unicorn Platform team.

This is awesome @alexanderisora ! The editor looks great, though I'm curious: will the storage (images, videos) be unlimited?

Hey Alexander! Very cool the amount of SEO settings you incorporated. Unicorn Platform sites are prerendered SPAs right? Also some nocode platforms, I've noticed, when connected with GA, will not show users moving from URL to URL. Does Unicorn Platform get around this?

Upd: This small addon to Unicorn builder holds great power - it lets you create and manage your own blog just on Unicorn landing! Generate free (not counting stamina used to write posts) organic traffic from Google and Yahoo! The Blogs Ux/Ui is awesome *- it reminds me of best Ux practices like Gramamrly! Unicorn Platform v2.0

I've been using the Blogs feature for a while now and I can honestly say that I love the ease of use and simplicity! Major W from us 🥳

Wonderful! Adding a blog to a site isn't as easy as it should be... well, until now! Thanks @alexanderisora & team!

I`ve used Unicorn - and its Ui is awesome! I believe that everything made by Unicorn product banf is sleek & powerfull!

Great update! A tiny issue I noticed -- whenever I click on company logo on top right it stays on the blog page. I guess it should go back to home page. Other than that all is great!

Been a long time user of Unicorn Blogs. 100x better than Wordpress, Squarespace, Wix. Congrats on the new launch!

If I try this platform, what assurances do I have that my RIGHTS, under the Second Amendment, won't be infringed? I HAVE heard good things about Ghost, that's why I'm here. But, going forward, does the company have a long-term plan for corporate responsibility to the Nation, the Constitution, and the Right of the People to communicate without fear of reprisal? I believe that one of the most important groups in the U.S. are the INFLUENCERS. Your elite rank & file are in a unique position to USE your influence to bring the country together. If the stock market can rise or fall depending on what Elon Musk says, you understand why YOUR input is critical to repairing our Union. I am a mere mortal, but I'm a District Captain for the Convention of States. I also served in the USAF and now I'm a 50-something year old veteran on my 3rd iteration of a career. I firmly believe that EVERYONE in the US has an obligation to protect the Homeland, period. No matter your politics, no matter your feelings about the "systemic racism", "woke" cultural pandering, or the guilt being heaped upon people because their skin in lighter. It's all so irrelevant, and stupid, and petty. Our country is being run by children between the ages of 17-28 and a 78 year old man has his hand on the nuclear codes. Something REALLY bad is on its way and this needs to end now... I didn't mean to turn a simple question into a tirade but I didn't anticipate the opportunity to send a message to a bunch of techies either. I need a blog and will check it out regardless as I longer use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or anything besides Telegram. Social media is dead to me. Time to try out some new stuff! Hey, this is an AWESOME forum that I stumbled upon at 3 am in Texas and I will be exploring, joining, buying, and creating soon. I'm a freelance, SEO Content Writing Specialist. Shoot me an email if you ever find yourself i need of a mature, experienced, DEGREED writer! Life is difficult for the vast majority of the world. Why should it become unbearable? If you have any understanding of what I'm trying to get across, YOU & your colleagues, and anyone reading this might be part of the solution for the country... Cheers! Debbe

🔮 Alexander, congrats on your Launch! 👽New feature are really helpful for me because I'm thinking about creating my blog for a long time and now I will achieve my goal easy and fast with Unicorn Platform )

Fantastic work @alexanderisora, a great complement to your landing creator! Congratulations 🎊

Great to have SEO right up and ability to connect your custom domain!

Congrats alex!! So cool to see unicorn platform evolving over the years :)

Beautiful extension to an already amazing product. Good work!

Congrats with the new awesome huge feature, Unicorn team!🤘🏼

Huge fan of Unicornplatform here and this is a game changer. Loving it!

Cheers, Unicorn team! Well done 🤗

Congrats @alexanderisora! This is a huge new feature. The 7 months of work show off ;)

Great awesome update! Congrats with the launch! ❤️