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Priyansh Rastogi  • Peerlist

<h2 class="rich-heading">Turn your life's story into a website</h2><h3 class="rich-heading">Why I built living.so</h3><p>I've been blogging for 7-8 years, trying out different platforms like Medium, Hashnode, Ghost and custom blogs using JAM Stack. One problem I've had with all of them is organization. When I write a series of posts, it's hard for readers to follow the story from start to finish. So I built <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="http://living.so">living.so</a> to solve this problem. Moreover, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="http://living.so">living.so</a> is now more than a blogging platform. It's a full fledged personal website builder with themes, widgets, advanced analytics, custom domain and more.</p><p>Check out a few demo profiles:</p><ul><li><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="http://priyanshrastogi.com">priyanshrastogi.com</a></p></li><li><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="http://preview.living.so">preview.living.so</a></p></li></ul><p></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="http://Living.so">Living.so</a> offers a multitude of use-cases, making it a versatile tool for things like:</p><ul><li><p>Building your personal portfolio like <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="https://divyanshrastogi.com/">this one</a> showcasing your projects.</p></li><li><p>Create your organised tech blog like <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="https://priyanshrastogi.com/blog">this one</a> with code blocks and syntax highlighting.</p></li></ul><p></p><h2 class="rich-heading">Features</h2><h3 class="rich-heading">Hierarchical Blogging: Organizing Posts with a Tree-Based Structure</h3><p>This feature transforms blogging into a file system, letting users create folders and subfolders to organize their content. It's like a hierarchical structure where "tales" are folders and "stories" or "lists" are files within them. This approach brings unparalleled organization and flexibility, making it a game-changer for blogging and a unique feature of living.so.</p><h3 class="rich-heading">Movies, TV Shows, Books and Generic Lists</h3><p>Easily share your top picks for movies, TV shows, books, and more with a simple list-making feature. Just type the title and it'll add the cover art, poster, or author info, along with the release year. You can also organize your favorites in a hierarchical format for easy viewing.</p><h3 class="rich-heading">Subdomain You will love</h3><p>Your <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="http://living.so">living.so</a> page subdomain is unique and it's a statement in itself. You can choose any one of the 6 available options:</p><ul><li><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="http://username.living.so">username.living.so</a></p></li><li><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="http://username.is.living.so">username.is.living.so</a></p></li><li><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="http://username.writing.so">username.writing.so</a></p></li><li><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="http://username.is.writing.so">username.is.writing.so</a></p></li><li><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="http://username.traveling.so">username.traveling.so</a></p></li><li><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="http://username.is.traveling.so">username.is.traveling.so</a></p></li></ul><p>These subdomains are more than just a URL - they're a statement. They scream "this is where I'm living my best life" or "this is where my writing journey begins" or "this is how I am traveling the world". I can't wait to see what you do with it!</p><h3 class="rich-heading">Advanced Analytics</h3><p>With Living, you can track how your stories are doing with our built-in analytics (powered by Umami). You'll see how many views each post gets, which one is most popular, and where your traffic comes from. Our analytics are easy to use and respect your readers' privacy. You can get insights without compromising on privacy, making it a better choice than traditional tools like Google Analytics.</p><h3 class="rich-heading">Themes and Widgets</h3><p>You can choose from two amazing themes to make your Living page unique. The default theme adapts to your readers' system theme, looking great in both light and dark modes. If you want something bolder, the Brutal theme is a colorful and eye-catching option inspired by Neubrutalism design. I'm working on adding more themes soon, so you'll have even more ways to express yourself.</p><p>Want to drive traffic to an external URL from your page? Use the customizable call-to-action card widget to add a title, description, and button text. Use the Timeline widget to showcase your work experience or education or both!</p><h3 class="rich-heading">Text Editor and AI Copilot</h3><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="http://Living.so">Living.so</a> come with a powerful text editor that lets you add headings, images, links, and more to your content. It also includes AI Coilot, a powerful feature that helps you improve your writing by fixing grammar and typos and making it clearer. With AI Coilot, you can add personality to your text, simplify or expand on your ideas, and even adjust the tone to suit your audience.</p><h3 class="rich-heading">Pricing</h3><p>Living.so has a free plan with basic features, but you need to upgrade to Pro to get extra features like advanced analytics, custom domain, unlimited AI Copilot access and unlimited pageviews.</p><h3 class="rich-heading">Special Peerlist Launch offer</h3><p>Get an exclusive 66.67% discount on 1st year of Pro subscription when you access living.so through Peerlist.</p><h3 class="rich-heading">Behind the scenes</h3><ul><li><p>I have been building <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="http://living.so">living.so</a> for about 8 months now on weekends and nights, since I have a full-time job as well.</p></li><li><p>Tech stack: Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript, Express, MongoDB, Redis</p></li><li><p>Demo video was created using <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="http://screen.studio">screen.studio</a> with an AI voiceover.</p></li></ul><p></p><p>Thank you Peers :)</p><p></p><p></p>