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Ask HN: A place to publish half-formed thoughts?

1 pointsby valtyover 2 years ago
I have a lot of thoughts and ideas on things throughout the day.<p>Usually I would post on Medium but it always feels like I should publish polished stuff. I don&#x27;t want to spam my audience either. Whenever I start one of these long posts I always get stuck re-writing, re-organizing and re-reading, and end up never publishing it.<p>I want a place where I can post stream of consciousness kind of thoughts on a variety of different topics. And a place where there isn&#x27;t the expectation of polish.<p>I guess what I am looking for is a way to publish my notes journal.<p>Twitter with long tweets seems close if they built it, but I would still feel awkward blasting out a bunch of thoughts to everyone. And there is still that feeling of proof-reading that feels like a barrier.<p>For code, we happily put out draft PRs in the open...so why not for blogs&#x2F;notes? We&#x27;ve got GitHub repos, issues, discussions.<p>I&#x27;d personally love to read people&#x27;s evolving thoughts on ideas in more depth. The best we get atm is Twitter, but its too short, and there is a hesitancy to post too much because it would annoy followers.<p>Anyone know any platforms&#x2F;tools for this kind of stuff?

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jonjackyover 2 years ago
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Minor49erover 2 years ago
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