If it's really about blogging, i.e. producing texts with images in a simple design WP is no longer an option IMHO. Go for ghost (or even gohugo.io with forestry.io). They are faster, easier to customize and have markdown but are maybe a little more difficult to set up.
If you need fancier options, prefer php and eventually need more cms like functionality or even a shop in the future choose WP.

Nice, thanks!

Or Sendy + Amazon SES

Thanks @swizec & @Ashfame! Great thread, great answers. It's so good to see we all kind of sit in the same boat and have the similar thoughts.

I feel like it's too much hassle a lot lately - especially when I have to focus hard on selling / marketing instead of creating / coding. I guess it's because there is hardly any instant gratification in it. I know that "making stuff" is what I really like but apparently marketing is not my most preferred part of it (even though this is what I studied)

Whenever I feel like it's too much hustle though I try to put myself back to the reason(s) why I started this in the first place: being independent, working on something that matters (to me). Also it's nice to focus on the alternative for a while: do I really want to do code for clients? Or sell other peoples shit(dreams)? Hell no! I'm sure I would start to hate coding after about 1 month and get totally bored after about two....

Also, I think that the "it's just too much" thought crawls in when you don't have enough success inputs to weigh out the pain. If this continues for a longtime it might be worth re evaluating your current project and maybe start something new...

Trello

there is also crisp.chat which comes with a decent free tier

quaderno.io works on top of stripe and takes care of VAT moss and all those taxes...

parse server?!? open source since a while now: github.com/parse-community/pa…

I like it a lot. Just wondering how participation will be if you take this out of the chat. I find it already a bit "difficult" to switch to the page for questions. Or to put it differently: I guess feedback is much easier and more readily given in the telegram chat than somewhere else

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