Show HN: PostOwl, in-place editable blog powered by SvelteKit and SQLite (postowl.com)

19 points by keybits 2y ago ↗ HN

Hi HN, I came up with the idea for PostOwl about ten years ago! Today I can finally share it with the world.

A huge thank you to Michael Aufreiter who wrote most of the code and inspired the editing interface with his editable.webite

PostOwl is open-source and there are docs for deploying your own site for free. Give it a spin and let us know what you think!

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Congrats on the launch!

I saw the submission for editable.website [0] a few months ago and really liked the approach.

I'm definitely going to give PostOwl a try as well, thanks for building it!

Thank you!

Let us know what you think. We're open to ideas about how to improve it: https://github.com/PostOwl/postowl/discussions/

nilskj 2y ago ↗

CMS-free blog launcher, smooth user experience and a fancy in-place wysiwyg-editor.

High quality tech with SvelteKit, embedding the SQLite database with the app is such a nicely architectured solution for this.

Congratulations on the fantastic release!

Thank you for the kind words!

Exceptional work! Looking forward to trying it out

_mql 2y ago ↗

Thank you, let us know if any questions come up. And if you had a perfect experience, let us know too! :)

andric 2y ago ↗

Since the docs mention deploying to Fly.io, I wonder if it’s possible to use their managed LiteFS service for backup?

Great question. I'm working on this now. Expect documentation updates soon. https://www.postowl.com/newsletter/ to get updates.