Interesting to see this again. This has been on the front page 3 days ago.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20060549" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20060549</a>
It's easy to make a blog. It's very difficult to match the SEO results and network effect of Medium.<p>If you want people to see what you write, and you aren't already famous, Medium will put your content in front of more people than a self-run blog.<p>That is Medium's real competitive edge. It is hard to get your blog noticed. If you want to beat Medium, you need to beat them at that.
Show HN discussion on this from 2 days back : <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20060549" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20060549</a>