Working in public, quietly
Shipping every week without turning the work into a performance. What we learned from a year of building in the open.
Simplest1 Blog
Just write.
Just write.
We run the rest.
Markdown, tags, scheduling, email subscribers and RSS, on pages that load instantly. Nothing to install or update, and your posts in a database you can download anytime.
Free forever. No credit card.
A blog made here
Field Notes
A calendar for deep work
Two meeting days, three maker days. The schedule that finally stuck.
Choosing boring technology, again
What a blog here does.
Writing, not maintenance
A Markdown editor, tags, a featured post and scheduling. Nothing to install, nothing to update, no server to patch.
Readers by email and feed
Visitors subscribe and get one email per post, from your blog’s name. RSS, Atom and JSON Feed for everyone else.
Fast, and easy to find
Small pages drawn on the server, with the title, description, link preview, sitemap and structured data of every post set up for you.
Your design, to the last tag
Pick a theme, or edit every template from doctype to closing tag, with history and rollback.
Underneath, a platform that is yours.
Your data, in its own database
Your site is a database file of its own, not rows in a table shared with everyone else. Download all of it, anytime, on every plan.
Undo a bad day
Restore your entire site to any moment in the last 30 days. Recent changes, to the second.
Your own domain
Put it on your domain with automatic SSL, from the Starter plan.
In your visitors’ language
Every word the platform draws, from buttons to error messages and emails, in 17 languages, right to left included.
An API for everything
Everything you can click is also an endpoint, with scoped keys and webhooks, on every plan.
Hosted and handled
We run the servers, the updates, and the backups. You publish.
Free, subscribers included.
On the free plan: unlimited posts, subscribers and emails, comments and search. Starter puts your blog on your own domain and takes the Simplest1 line out of your emails.
Free
$0forever
- Unlimited apps and content
- Full API access, webhooks included
- 1 GB storage
- 1 seat
- Simplest1 subdomain
- Export any time
- 50 AI suggestions a month
- 5 uptime checks, run every 5 minutes
Starter
$19per app / month
$190 a year, save 17%
- Everything in Free
- Custom domains with SSL, up to 5
- White label
- 10 GB storage
- 3 seats
- 1,000 AI suggestions a month
- 50 uptime checks, run every minute
Pro
$69per month
$690 a year, save 17%
- Everything in Starter, on every app
- Unlimited seats
- 100 GB storage
- 5,000 AI suggestions a month per app
Plus tax where it applies.
Free for individuals and small teams. If your company makes over $1M, please go Pro.
Coming from Ghost? See how we compare
Ghost(Pro) has no free plan: Starter is $18 a month ($15 billed yearly) for one staff user, and three need Publisher at $35 ($29 billed yearly). Simplest1 Blog is free on our address, and $19 a month puts it on your domain with 3 seats.
| What | Ghost | Simplest1 Blog |
|---|---|---|
| On the free plan | None, a trial | Unlimited posts, subscribers and emails |
| Your own domain | Starter, $18 a month or $15 billed yearly | Starter, $19 a month or $190 a year, save 17% |
| Three writers | Publisher, $35 a month or $29 billed yearly | Starter, $19 a month |
| Priced by | Members; prices rise past 1,000 | Each site, never by readers |
| Taking your posts | One JSON file, members as CSV | The whole site as files |
Ghost does more for a paid newsletter: memberships, paid subscriptions and a newsletter editor. If that is your business, it is worth its price.
Ghost’s prices from ghost.org/pricing for up to 1,000 members and its help page on exports, checked October 4, 2026, in US dollars.
Moving over
01
Bring your posts
There is no Ghost importer. The API takes each post’s title, body (Markdown, or the HTML your export holds), tags and original date.
02
Keep your links
Add a redirect from each old address to the new one, by hand or through the API, so nothing you shared breaks.
03
Bring your readers
There is no bulk import of subscribers yet. Through the API each address is asked to confirm by email, up to 200 a day.
Questions, answered.
Can I charge for posts or run paid subscriptions?
Not today. Simplest1 Blog is for publishing and email updates; if paid memberships are your business, a membership platform fits better.
Do subscriber emails cost extra?
No. Every plan emails each post to every confirmed subscriber. On the free plan each email ends with one line, Powered by Simplest1; Starter removes it.
Can readers comment?
Yes, if you want them to. Comments are held for your approval, and you can turn them off.
Is my writing mine?
Yes. Your blog is a database file of its own. Download it anytime as files you can read, on every plan.
What happens to my posts if I leave?
Download everything anytime, the whole site as files. If you close your site, you have 30 days to take everything with you.
Do I need a credit card to start?
No. Enter an address, your name and your email, and you are live on the free plan. We ask for payment only when you upgrade.
Start your blog.
Your first post can be live in the time it took to read this page.