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Simple Blogging via Git Push
1 point by Johngibb on Aug 13, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
The Idea --------

Simple blogging engine using Git to author and version your blog posts. Create a new text file (markdown format) for a new post, make edits to it using commits, and push to see it live.

The Details -----------

This would be implemented as a service that received a Git push in order to deploy your new data.

Upon receiving a deploy via "git push", a static blog generator (Jekyll?) would run transforming your changes into a static website, deployed to a web server or potentially an S3 bucket.

Viability / Interest? ---------------------

* If this existed today, would you use it? * Does it exist, and I'm just unaware of the service? * Any advice / inputs on the technical implementation?

I know it's Yet Another Blogging Engine, but since starting a full-time job I haven't shipped a side project since http://rewordio.us last year - I'm looking for something I can develop quickly, that could be useful to people, and potentially even grow over time.

Consider this a request for feedback / proposal. Maybe I should have started a Kickstarter project... :)



I can suggest you my howto configure Flask-FlatPages with OpenShift to achieve (almost) exactly what you want: http://www.codingnot.es/recycling-part-2/

The static generation part is not there, but there is Frozen-Flask for that: http://packages.python.org/Frozen-Flask/


Like github pages ? http://pages.github.com/




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