For those who have been following my Linkedin, you might know I've been building a website building application. But struggles during the alpha testing phase have caused me to pivot. The problem is that I defined it as a generic website builder, and too many people assumed that meant it could do things it couldn't do. Like that guy who tried to make a news page on my site builder. Really, it was a Markdown-powered CMS, but it was hard to get that across when I was calling it a generic website builder like Wix or Squarespace. What my platform excels at is publishing Markdown.
Enter digital gardens/second brains. For those who are new to the term, a digital garden is a living website of interconnected notes. A garden grows over time. Ideas link to other ideas. Notes evolve. Readers wander rather than scroll. There is a community of people who take notes in Markdown using apps like Obsidian and Joplin, and there is no current service that allows the notes to get published to the internet for free. This is what I'm trying to build in the coming weeks, and I'm hoping that enough people who take notes in Markdown will find the service useful.
The vision is this: a vibrant, interconnected web of digital gardens and blogs that grows and evolves over time. Users should be able to publish their Markdown notes as a digital garden for free, without needing to code or use a command line tool. In the future, I plan to allow for people to link to each other's notes, to allow for intermingling of people's ideas and thoughts.
I'm really happy with this pivot and am excited to build AgoraPages!
Until next time!