Blot

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Blot is an open source flat file blogging platform built by David Merfield that uses Dropbox to store your content.

Users can drag-and-drop files into Blot’s folder on Dropbox to publish. Images, text files, Markdown and more become posts automatically. There’s no interface. Just files and folders.

The developer provides an inexpensive, paid hosted solution, but the code to run the project can also be found on Github.

IndieWeb Examples

• Sameer Vasta moved from Tumblr and SquareSpace to Blot in September 2017.

Setting up Webmention

• Amit Gawande wrote a tutorial about how to set up Webmention.io to display webmentions on Blog blogs.
  • "There are a bunch of folks using Blot who microblog / use indieweb principles. Here's a guide to setting up webmentions: https://www.amitgawande.com/display-webmentions/ Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions about this, or anything else" @blot__ March 1, 2019

See Also

• Dropbox
• file-storage