Ghost is a free publishing platform for writing and running a website, blog or email newsletter. It is for writers and publishers who want to host their own site or use a managed service.
22kActiveGPL-2.0Replaces partlyRuns on your own server
WordPress is free software for building and running websites and blogs, including writing and publishing posts. It is for people who want to run their own site, or set one up for someone else.
2.2kQuiet for a yearAGPL-3.0Replaces partlyRuns on your own server
Plume is a blogging platform you can host yourself or join on an existing server, with support for multiple blogs per account plus image and audio uploads. It is for writers who want Medium-style blogging connected to the Fediverse, but it does not send email newsletters.
1.3kActiveGPL-3.0Replaces partlyRuns on your own server
btw is an open-source tool for building a personal website or blog, with a hosted version or a self-hosted copy. It is for individuals who want to publish their own writing.
Runs on your own server · GitHub
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Before you build
Planning something for an alternative to Substack? See what exists first, so you can reuse parts or explain what's different. Paste this into any AI assistant:
Read the list of open-source alternatives at https://opensourceeverything.org/data/groups/blogging.json. Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
My project or idea:
Here is a list of open-source alternatives to Substack, from Open Source Everything (CC BY-SA 4.0):
- Ghost (MIT, https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost; replaces fully): Ghost is a free publishing platform for writing and running a website, blog or email newsletter. It is for writers and publishers who want to host their own site or use a managed service.
- WordPress (GPL-2.0, https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress; replaces partly): WordPress is free software for building and running websites and blogs, including writing and publishing posts. It is for people who want to run their own site, or set one up for someone else.
- WriteFreely (AGPL-3.0, https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely; replaces partly): WriteFreely is a simple publishing platform for writing and running a blog. It is aimed at writers, teams and communities who want to share articles.
- Plume (AGPL-3.0, https://github.com/Plume-org/Plume; replaces partly): Plume is a blogging platform you can host yourself or join on an existing server, with support for multiple blogs per account plus image and audio uploads. It is for writers who want Medium-style blogging connected to the Fediverse, but it does not send email newsletters.
- btw (GPL-3.0, https://github.com/btw-so/btw; replaces partly): btw is an open-source tool for building a personal website or blog, with a hosted version or a self-hosted copy. It is for individuals who want to publish their own writing.
Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
My project or idea:
