Publish a blog you own. No platform risk.

Ghost Pro charges $25 per month for a blog. WordPress.com charges $8. Medium takes a cut of your subscriber revenue and controls your distribution. Self-hosted blog engines exist because writing should not require a monthly subscription or a dependency on someone else's algorithm. When you host your own blog, you control the URL structure, the page speed, the design, and the monetization. If you decide to move, your content is files on your filesystem, not an export button that may or may not preserve formatting.

Post stores articles in SQLite with fields for title, body (Markdown or HTML), author, slug, category, and publish date. Articles move through a draft-to-published workflow. The API supports full-text search across titles and bodies. You can filter by category, author, or status. The dashboard provides an editor, article list with status indicators, and publishing controls. No themes, no plugins, no PHP — just a binary that serves your content.