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The Open Times Wants to Put Your Publication Back on Your Machine

theopentimes.org ↗ · Developer Corner · score 86.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

An open-source, self-hosted publishing system that combines a publication, newsletter, paid subscriptions, comments, analytics, and social crossposting.

Why it surfaced

The proposition is unusually coherent: publish once, email subscribers, collect payments through your own Stripe account, and crosspost across Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads, and Mastodon. Its strongest idea is also its clearest one—your posts, readers, revenue, and access tokens live in a database you run, with no platform taking a cut.

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A File Musicians Can Argue With

August 7’s newborn domains include editable orchestral scores with up to 33 staves, 15 years of Valencia council interventions, a dementia-friendly frame with one optional button, and a memorial golf tournament whose winner wears the Meatball Jacket.

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