diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 33bf824..d025f95 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -14,36 +14,18 @@ Contributors

+  -We're building a small, focused digital writing and publishing tool that you can host yourself. Today, you can see what will eventually be open source on [Write.as](https://write.as) — and see our complementary reader that's already open source today, called [Read.as](https://github.com/writeas/Read.as). +WriteFreely is a beautifully pared-down blogging platform that's simple on the surface, yet powerful underneath. -## Development - -**This product doesn't exist in its open-source form yet**. Today it's a hosted platform (with some open source components and clients) serving thousands of blogs on [Write.as](https://write.as). Still, you can _star_ this repo now and get updates on GitHub as we start building it. - -Nothing presented here is final, including the name, roadmap, and features of the product -- but you can get a pretty good idea of what will come based on our goals below and the product that already exists as a hosted solution today. - -## Goals - -These are our product goals unique to the open source version of Write.as, and stand in addition to the simple, pared-down platform we've already built. - -* Painless install (single executable, no dependencies, no Docker or external database required) -* Lightweight enough to host on a cheap VPS with no more than 256MB of memory -* Single- and multi-blog hosting -* Capable of federating with other instances +It's designed to be flexible and share your writing widely, so it's built around plain text and can publish to the _fediverse_ via ActivityPub. It's easy to install and lightweight. ## Features * Start a blog for yourself, or host a community of writers * Form larger federated networks, and interact over modern protocols like ActivityPub -* Syndicate your content to silos like Twitter, Medium, Tumblr, and more as we add them -* Build more advanced things with the built-in API -* Write from anywhere with our cross-platform apps, browser extension, and command-line client -- or bring your own Micropub-enabled client - -## Contributing - -We'd love to have your help building this platform in the open. If you're interested, [get in touch](https://write.as/contact) or just [keep up with us on Slack](http://slack.write.as). +* Build more advanced apps and extensions with the [well-documented API](https://developers.write.as/docs/api/) ## License -Will be released under (A)GPL. +Licensed under the GPL.