Show HN: I made paperboat.website, a platform for friends and creativity

Hi HN! My name is Marv and I made paperboat.website, a friendly platform for personal websites and blogs. I wanted to create a place for sharing interesting things with your friends and everyone else, without all the annoyances most of the world wide web comes with these days.

The sites are simple and easy to set up. Feel free to give it a try and let me know what you think!

Whenever I hear the words "paper boat" I'm put in mind of a certain [1] vtuber [2].

[1] https://youtu.be/pYVEIX7nSEs?t=769

[2] For those unfamiliar with the vtuber scene: This video is not AI generated. She's a legitimate content creator; the views and subs on that video are real and organic. She's a real human with a video camera and face tracking that maps her real human face's expressions and movements onto an anime character model in real time, broadcast on a livestream. There's a whole ecosystem of supporting software, specialized model artists and riggers, agencies that provide all sorts of support to individual creators in exchange for a cut of ad / superchat / sub / merch / event revenue...the vtuber rabbit hole goes quite deep.

Congrats on the launch! Love to see more minimal, single-purpose sites like this popping up. The no-JS, no-ads approach is refreshing.

Two quick questions. On data ownership: do the ToS allow you (or a future acquirer) to sell or commercially use the content people publish on their blogs? And is there a way to export blog posts, say as Markdown? Portability is a big deal for me before committing to a platform.

Will definitely subscribe either way. Nice work.

This reminds me of bearblog.dev, in a very positive way.

One thing I adore about Bear is their discover page. Have you considered adding one?

Lots of mentions of bearblog.dev, I want to mention https://mataroa.blog which is even more similar.

I haven't gone through and created a paperboat site (as I'm kind of drowning in channels at the moment), but I love the aesthetic and the spirit of a stripped down social space. Congratulations on the launch and best of luck!

10-20 years ago running a social network platform was viable for individuals. Today, in the era of information warfare, SEO, trolling and in general magnitudes more bad actors, it's almost impossible.

Friend has encountered things like people uploading illegal content and then reporting to hosting provider or various terrorist or political organisations publishing their manifestos and vile content then making death threats for taking it down and so on.

Also no ads, means how the platform is going to survive once provider runs out of money or figures out it is not as easy as it looks like?

Congratulations on your launch!

Like others have mentioned Bearblog, I'd also like to mention fika.bar, which is a service similar to yours. I wish success to all of you!

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