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Growth · February 3, 2011

Publ.ca - Instant and Beautiful Web Publishing

Hey Everyone, So this was a weekend project that I did basically as a favor to a friend of mine who is a writer. This friend wanted a simple way to publish his short stories on the web that gave him a short url for tweeting and had no associated branding with the published work. Essentially this is what I have done here with publ.ca . My question is that I want to know where I should take this project in terms of features. Possible extensions to this project are: - automatic tweeting when publishing - custom layouts and designs - markdown rendering - user accounts ( FB connect or Google…

Publ.ca - Instant and Beautiful Web Publishing launched on February 3, 2011 with 11 votes, #46 of 163 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 15 years on.

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Publ.ca is a web publishing platform that allows writers to quickly publish content online and share it via short URLs without any branding attached to the published work. Built as a weekend project, it provides a simple way to post short stories and articles to the web. The platform is designed for writers and content creators who want a clean, straightforward publishing experience focused on the work itself rather than the publisher.

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Hey Everyone, So this was a weekend project that I did basically as a favor to a friend of mine who is a writer. This friend wanted a simple way to publish his short stories on the web that gave him a short url for tweeting and had no associated branding with the published work. Essentially this is what I have done…

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