2022-06-11

#done/process

1. Single Markdown file

Do we build locally to start with?
Surely easier for most users to build on the server (but then how do you preview?)

2. Multiple markdown files ("vault")

Main difference is we need a "content layer" to provide a query-able interface.

What am i unsure about?

Is this actually a "product" (rather than a framework or tool)?
- Is there actually a defined niche for building from markdown to a website (vs various bits of tooling to help you)?
  - Would I use it? How would it fit with web3 or ecosystem site etc?
  - For me there is clearly a missing (but may be about discovery) for patterns and tools for building on top of e.g. nextjs
  - Seems clear that turning a dataset into a website is useful. That's what people are doing in data catalogs.
  - People are paying to publish their obsidian site.
What would people pay for?

Obsidian page braindump

Turn your obsidian vault into a beautiful/elegant website in seconds
- 🚩 Screenshot is essential
Features
- Control what you publish
  - Compatible with Obsidian Publish in terms of flags
- Get your own domain name
- Fully obsidian compatible
- Network map
Pricing: $5/month?
- Free to try for 14d then $5 / month??
- Free for vaults under 10 pages??
We contribute 20% of our surplus back to obsidian project
- We want to support this awesome project.
TODO: How do we support plugins etc?
Backlinks and forward-links
Choice of themes
Open-source
- => Use yourself from your own github repo if you want
Offer:
- self-service => follow these instructions to publish yourself using the open-source edition of flowershow
- cloud-publishing => hassle free publishing with no technical knowledge needed. Try for free, no credit card required. => Sign up [Coming Soon - sign up to get early access]
  - How this works: get a token, configure that in your plugin and off you go??
What features of Obsidian are supported?
- Obsidian wiki links
  - TODO: what about non-relative paths??
- Tables
- Footnotes
- Mermaid
- ?? Excalidraw (export to svg??)
Documentation
- How to get started self-publishing?
  - How this works: we have a customized nextjs app that acts as cms for obsidian vault content
  - 1. Assume you are publishing off github or gitlab and going to publish using vercel, cloudflare pages, github pages or similar
  - 1. Install flowershow app into subdirectory e.g. .flowershow/app
  - 1. Configure app with path to your obsidian vault
  - 1. Configure auto build and publish
    - Instructions for Vercel
    - Instructions for Cloudflare