Blot Alternatives

Blot is described as 'Blogging platform with no interface. It creates a special folder in your Dropbox and publishes files you put inside. The point of all this?—?the reason Blot exists?—?is so you can use your favorite tools to create whatever you publish' and is a Blog Publishing tool in the social & communications category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Blot for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Windows, Mac and SaaS apps. The best Blot alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Blot are Ghost, Tumblr, Pastebin.com and GitHub Gist.

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  1. WriteFreely icon
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    WriteFreely is an open-source, minimalist, federated, self-hosted blogging platform. It was built for and by Write.as and can be used to power a similar community or just a single blog.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
     
  2. Telegra.ph icon
     47 likes

    Telegra.ph is an anonymous publishing platform by Telegram that lets anyone post stories without having to register an account. Simply visit the site and you'll be presented with a light form for posting.

    35 Telegra.ph alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  3. Plume icon
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    Plume is not a single website, but an entire interconnected, yet independent network of what we call instances. You write content from your own instance, but anyone else on any other Plume instance can enjoy your stories too.

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Mataroa Blog icon
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    Blogging platform for minimalists.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  5. SendAny icon
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    SendAny is a minimalist and elegant platform that combines the best of Google Drive, Pastebin, and GitHub Gist into a single interface. Create workspaces to share text, code, and files with full control over privacy, password protection, and expiration times.

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    • Online
     
  6. Opengist icon
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    Opengist is a self-hosted pastebin powered by Git. All snippets are stored in a Git repository and can be

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. shelf.gg icon
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    shelf.gg is an open source pastebin that makes it easy to find and share lists of resources.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Linux Mobile
     
  8. Markdown Ninja is the easiest way to publish Markdown-based websites and newsletters. The days of hacking a static site generator, a broken theme, a complex CI/CD pipeline and a cloud platform with unlimited billing to publish a website are long gone!

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  9. Midnight.pub icon
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    Midnight is a place for networked writing. You can think of it as write.as meets roam. Figuratively, it aims to be the web equivalent of your local pub. a place you can go to and talk about your day with strangers or friends. then when you leave, it doesn’t follow you home.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
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