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+# writeas.org
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+We're building a small, focused digital writing and publishing tool that you can host yourself. Today, you can see what will eventually be open source on [Write.as](https://write.as).
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+## Development
+
+**This product doesn't exist in its open-source form yet**. Today it's a hosted platform (with some open source components and clients) serving thousands of blogs on [Write.as](https://write.as). Still, you can _star_ this repo now and get updates on GitHub as we start building it.
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+Nothing presented here is final, including the name, roadmap, and features of the product -- but you can get a pretty good idea of what will come based on our goals below and the product that already exists as a hosted solution today.
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+## Goals
+
+These are our product goals unique to the open source version of Write.as, and stand in addition to the simple, pared-down platform we've already built.
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+* Painless install (single executable, no dependencies, no Docker or external database required)
+* Lightweight enough to host on a cheap VPS with no more than 256MB of memory
+* Single- and multi-blog hosting
+* Capable of federating with other instances
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+## Features
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+* Start a blog for yourself, or host a community of writers
+* Form larger federated networks, and interact over modern protocols like ActivityPub
+* Syndicate your content to silos like Twitter, Medium, Tumblr, and more as we add them
+* Build more advanced things with the built-in API
+* Write from anywhere with our cross-platform apps, browser extension, and command-line client -- or bring your own Micropub-enabled client
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+## Contributing
+
+We'd love to have your help building this platform in the open. If you're interested, [get in touch](https://write.as/contact) or just [keep up with us on Slack](http://slack.write.as).
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+## License
+
+Will be released under (A)GPL.