Every time I wanted to share something small or unfinished, I opened Twitter and lost 20 minutes to the timeline. Writing a blog post felt too heavy for those smaller, quick thoughts. I just wanted a place to write something down quickly and hit publish.
Jottings is that place. It gives you a clean microblog on a domain you own. Posts show up in simple chronological order. No likes. No followers. No feed trying to decide what matters.
What Jottings is - A microblogging platform that builds fully static microblog sites - A free subdomain (you.jottings.me) or connect your own domain on PRO plans - Markdown, tags, RSS feed, links with preview, and image uploads - An optional AI writing helper when you are stuck or lazy to fix grammar - Optimized for SEO and AI search friendly - Analytics for your sites
What it is not - Not a social network - Not an engagement funnel - Not trying to keep you on the site - Not a replacement for long-form blogging, though you can use it that way
How it works Each Jot publish triggers a static site rebuild. The site is stored in Cloudflare R2 and served directly at the edge. Custom domains go through Cloudflare SSL for SaaS. I built it to be boring, reliable (barring Cloudflare's latest issues), and cheap to run.
Pricing Free tier for a subdomain, text posts, and a lot more. USD5 per month for custom domains, images, full Markdown, and the writing helper. I priced it to be an easy yes.
Limitations - No comments (on purpose) - No native apps yet (iOS is coming) - The writing helper is helpful but not magic - I am a solo founder, so features move at human speed
I use Jottings regularly to document what I build. It has been the lowest-friction way I have found to publish anything publicly.
Demo of Jottings site for product updates: https://jottings.jottings.me/ Demo of my personal Jottings site: https://jottings.vishalvshekkar.com (with custom subdomain)
I would love feedback from this community. What would make this better or more useful for you?
Check it out here: https://jottings.me (2 min set up) Feel free to write to me at vishal@vishalvshekkar.com
— Vishal
Personally this kind of thing is just always gonna be self hosted or local only, but I see the appeal for folks who don't have that option
Brief off-topic greybeard cloud yell: I hate that we've all adopted the colloquial use of "algorithm".
Although it's interesting to imagine whether software is even possible with "no algorithm" :)
I hope that the appeal is real for a good bunch of folks.
Haha! You gave me a chuckle! And a totally fair yell! :) Valid CS philosophical musings aside, may be I should be a bit more specific to something like "personalized feed ranking".