A simple, no-nonsense, self-hosted blogging platform.
The majority of people who want to run a blog don't need (and often don't want) fancy automation and reader tracking features. In fact, arguably the very reason blogging became popular was due to how simple it made it to share your ideas, thoughts, and projects with a wide array of people. Promptly takes this minimalism to the next level, by making it extremely easy to self-host your own blog. Instead of using a third party service to host your articles, or going through a complex set-up process for a typical self-hosted blog service, Promptly makes it quick and easy to start sharing stories, updates, and other information with the world.
While Promptly works great as a simple blogging platform, or as a starting point for developers to build more complex platforms, it's intentionally simple and non-complex. If you're looking for a feature rich blogging system, Promptly may not be for you.
Promptly's main intention is to be a simple, easy to use blogging platform. All unnecessary features are designed to stay out of your way until you need them.
As you might imagine from it's simplicity, Promptly is unbelievably lightweight. While still being visually appealing and modern looking, each page barely uses any network resources at all, meaning the entire website feels extremely snappy and responsive.
Promptly is designed to be easy to use and visually pleasing on devices of all sizes, ranging from compact smart phones to giant desktop displays. All styling is done using plain CSS, meaning even devices that don't support JavaScript will get the same responsive experience.
The simple design of Promptly makes in inherently accessible. All of the webpages are clear, simple to understand, and easy to read, even with visual impairments. Promptly is also very screen-reader friendly.
Promptly is designed to be as easy to modify as possible, and has hundreds of in-line comments to make the code easier to understand. If you'd like to build your own blogging platform, but don't want to do everything from the ground up, Promptly can be a great starting point.
For people who don't want to take the time modifying Promptly, it already has plenty of built in customization. It's easy to configure things like max post length, who is allowed to make posts, and even the themes and styling used by Promptly.