@mikebarlow.uk.bsky.social
👨💻 Senior Developer https://aiir.com 🛠 Server management tools https://serverauth.com ☁️ Building markdown to hosted website with https://hosted.md 🔫 Paintballer #22 🥁 Drummer
Use Obsidian, Typora, VS Code, or any Markdown editor?
With hosted.md, you can take those Markdown files and publish them as a website—no Git, no build scripts, no command line.
More on that (plus a roundup of the best Markdown tools of 2025):
👉 https://link.hosted.md/iqKXd
Initial beta rollout went alright! Even with @rickmills.uk doing a "pre-beta" test, still managed to miss some validation when creating a new site.
Managed to catch it after 2 signs up both did the exact same thing! The joys of newly released products.
Serving static sites on custom domains using AWS means jumping through DNS verification hoops 🧩
That’s not the vibe I want for hosted.md.
Here’s what I’m doing instead: https://link.hosted.md/RQQPe
#buildinpublic
List is closed! For anyone on the waitlist, keep an eye out in your inbox if you signed up!
06.08.2025 18:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Still time to get on the https://hosted.md early access list!
I'll be closing it around 7pm BST ⏰
Emails will be going out shortly after that!
#markdown #buildinpublic #staticsite
Beta is live today 🎉
If you’re on the wait list, check your inbox - invites are rolling out later tonight (BST)
Not on the list? You can still catch up on what’s new 👇
https://link.hosted.md/3SsjL
Thanks! 🤩
Super excited to finally get to this stage!
🚨 Beta launches tomorrow! hosted.md is almost here.
You’ll be able to build a Markdown-powered site right in your browser — with drafts, folders, live preview and more.
Read the latest dev update:
👉 https://link.hosted.md/3SsjL
Search engines care about structure.
Start every post with one # H1, then use ## and ### to guide the flow.
Good for SEO, great for readers.
More static site SEO tips in our latest post 👉 https://link.hosted.md/Wdoh4
#Markdown #SEOtips
Big projects = messy ideas.
Use a scratch.md or /notes/ folder to keep your main files clean and focused.
It’s like having a mental junk drawer—but tidier.
Tips for staying organized → https://link.hosted.md/9zjvt
Publishing with Markdown shouldn't feel like deploying a web app 🚀
Our latest post explores why Markdown needs a friendlier future and how we're building it at hosted.md ✨
Read more 👉 https://link.hosted.md/KY2Gz
Full day in the garden yesterday with the big brother!
Building some shuttering for the foundations of a garden wall we'll be building. No clue what we're doing but feel like we're making progress!
If speed is what you're after, Hugo is hard to beat. It can build giant sites in seconds. But for small projects, the learning curve can feel like overkill.
In my new post, I break down Hugo and 4 other tools to turn Markdown into a site:
👉 https://link.hosted.md/z2juh
Markdown isn’t just for writing—it’s perfect for planning too.
Build a live outline using headers (#, ##, ###) to guide your flow and catch content gaps early.
Stay organized → https://link.hosted.md/9zjvt
No backend. No database. Just pure speed. 🏎️
Static sites are fast, but the setup can be a pain.
We’re creating hosted.md to make hitting publish feel effortless.
Read more: https://link.hosted.md/X8dYY
@rickmills.uk has already managed to find a few issues for me to fix ahead of getting the beta users onboard!
Get tunnel visioned on your own project sometimes it's easy to miss obvious things! 🤦♂️
Ha, trying to get the beta version of hosted.md up and running and of course i spot a ton of things that break the app and prevent a new user registering. 😅
01.08.2025 19:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We. are. there.
Time to onboard @rickmills.uk so he can give it a test before we unleash it to the waitlist.
There's still time to get onboard, become an early adopter and get it cheaper for life! Sign up at https://hosted.md
Beta launch will be Wednesday 6th August! #buildinpublic #staticsites
Trying to make static site hosting approachable without hiding the hard stuff - and it’s way trickier than i thought.
I shared some lessons from building hosted.md: 👉 https://link.hosted.md/pCyXF
#buildinpublic #markdown
You’re welcome! Hope it does help 🤞
31.07.2025 23:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Still writing your whole project in one giant .md file? 😅
Try splitting it into sections like:
01-intro.md, 02-chapter-one.md, etc.
It’ll help you focus, reuse content, and stay sane.
More tips here → https://link.hosted.md/9zjvt
Blogging with Markdown shouldn’t require a crash course in Git. With hosted.md, it doesn’t. Just write, hit publish, and you’re live. ✍️✨
No repos. No installs. No nonsense.
Read the post 👉 https://link.hosted.md/qIXQd
Writing a book, course, or long newsletter in Markdown? ✍️
We just published a guide on organizing long-form projects in a way that keeps things clean, structured, and easy to manage.
Read it here → https://link.hosted.md/9zjvt
Soooo close to finishing now. Planning to onboard @rickmills.uk as a "beta test" for the beta testers. Perks of being a co-director of the company!
Finally putting those preview videos together tonight. Did the planning last week and wrote up some notes for what I want to show in them.
My plan for them now is to show them off weekly after the beta users get onboarded. Allows me to show parts off to people that didn't get on the beta list.
Writing a book, course, or long newsletter in Markdown? ✍️
We just published a guide on organizing long-form projects in a way that keeps things clean, structured, and easy to manage.
Read it here → https://link.hosted.md/9zjvt
Writers deserve tools built for them, not developers.
At hosted.md, you write in Markdown and just… hit publish. No Git, no deploy scripts, no stress 💡
See how 👉 https://link.hosted.md/KY2Gz
On the home stretch with the initial build of hosted.md! Just getting the default theme in place along with the themes assets and we'll soon be good to do the beta launch.
Make sure you're on the list! https://hosted.md
#buildinpublic #markdown #hosting
Writers deserve tools built for them, not developers.
At hosted.md, you write in Markdown and just… hit publish. No Git, no deploy scripts, no stress 💡
See how 👉 https://link.hosted.md/KY2Gz
Not sure if anyone following me uses my Megaphone package for Laravel but I pushed out a new version the other day.
https://github.com/mikebarlow/megaphone/releases/tag/2.2.0 📢
#laravel #livewire #notifications
