Pika – Simple blogging software
Hello HN! I wanted to share something we at Good Enough (https://goodenough.us) built over the past month. Pika! https://pika.page I know, I know, who needs more blogging software? In this case, _I DO_. I find that the big players in the market have a distracting number of dials and knobs. I greatly appreciate the indieweb players in the space, but none of those solutions quite fit my way of blogging and so I'd bounce from one to the other to the other. I tried SSGs and my goodness do I dislike the experience of maintaining a website with them. I dislike the SSG…
Pika – Simple blogging software launched on February 6, 2024 with 147 votes, #330 of 3,962 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Pika is blogging software built by Good Enough that focuses on simplicity and the writing experience. It provides an editor that works with or without Markdown and offers basic customization options without overwhelming complexity. The software is designed for people who find existing blogging platforms cluttered or static site generators burdensome, prioritizing straightforward content creation over extensive configuration.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Pika is a pretty good blogging platform built by the good people at Good Enough.
Barry had been searching for many years for good enough software for his personal blog and newsletter. None of the options out there suited him, so he convinced his friends and colleagues to build his dream blog software. Barry wanted these things most: Pika’s editor gets out of your way. It’s designed to perfectly match how your words will be presented to your readers. Pika wants you to focus on writing, so we set everything up so your blog looks great right out-of-the-box. You should be writing, not fiddling, so we took a simple but flexible approach to theming and customizing. Pika makes it easy for your readers to subscribe to your blog, and for you to email them your posts. Your…from pika.page
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hello HN! I wanted to share something we at Good Enough (https://goodenough.us) built over the past month. Pika! https://pika.page I know, I know, who needs more blogging software? In this case, _I DO_. I find that the big players in the market have a distracting number of dials and knobs. I…
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