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Life & fun · May 19, 2021

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Write and post to your blog from Gmail (a Hey World alternative)

Backstory A couple of months ago, the Basecamp guys launched Hey.com and Hey World to bring a new email and blogging experience into the mix. Hey World lets you write blog posts straight from your Hey.com inbox which show up on https://world.hey.com. Neat! The Good: * People love the friction free blogging experience of Hey World The Bad: * to use Hey World, you need a Hey.com account. * your email address is visible to everyone because your posts sit on https://world.hey.com/! * you can't host the Hey World blog on your own domain (yet) My Solution I built…

Write and post to your blog from Gmail (a Hey World alternative) launched on May 19, 2021 with 7 votes, #1,452 of 3,505 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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Backstory A couple of months ago, the Basecamp guys launched Hey.com and Hey World to bring a new email and blogging experience into the mix. Hey World lets you write blog posts straight from your Hey.com inbox which show up on https://world.hey.com. Neat! The Good: * People love the friction free blogging…

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