highlight.cool – add Medium-like highlights to your own blog
Hey y'all! I want to share my weekend project https://highlight.cool with you. highlight.cool lets your blog readers highlight what they find interesting, where the more interesting parts are bolder and the less interesting parts are lighter. As a reader, I've always enjoyed seeing the highlighted parts of Medium, but wasn't a fan of all the paywalls and that it only showed the top highlight. I'd love to see this feature on more blogs both as a way to be part of the community of readers, as well as give kudos to the writer for parts that I enjoyed reading. I've tried to make it so…
highlight.cool – add Medium-like highlights to your own blog launched on January 10, 2024 with 11 votes, #1,244 of 4,437 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Highlight.cool is a tool that lets blog readers highlight interesting passages, with more-highlighted sections appearing bolder. The feature works across any blog and shows highlights in real-time from other readers. It's designed for blog owners who want to add community engagement features similar to Medium but without paywalls, and for readers who enjoy seeing which parts resonated with others. The service is free and requires no installation beyond adding a script to a blog.
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From the sources
highlight.cool is a free, customizable, and real-time highlighting tool for your blog that lets you learn what your readers enjoy.
More interesting parts will become bolder than less interesting parts — kinda like how Medium does it, except better. Try highlighting some text and you'll be able to create a highlight of your own or copy it to your clipboard. Hover over a highlight and you'll see a counter for how many times that text has been highlighted. I call these neats . Why "neats"? Because it's the reader's way of saying that's pretty neat. highlight.cool is free to use for your blog with unlimited highlights and pages. There's a paid tier for $5/month or $40/year that allows you to remove the highlight.cool branding and customize the highlight color, among other exciting features (check out the roadmap below). If…from highlight.cool
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey y'all! I want to share my weekend project https://highlight.cool with you. highlight.cool lets your blog readers highlight what they find interesting, where the more interesting parts are bolder and the less interesting parts are lighter. As a reader, I've always enjoyed seeing the highlighted parts of…
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