Check out my new blog editor, RocketPost. Most of us at Sepia Mutiny use it to write our posts. A blog editor is like a word processor that publishes to your blog. If you’ve ever lost a post because your browser crashed, you should use one.
The one we use uploads photos automatically and checks spelling. It also lets you link to old posts quickly, adds source cites to quotes, links to Google, Wikipedia and Flickr quickly, adds those big, fat pullout quotes and so on. I use it to post to Sepia Mutiny and my personal blog at the same time.
If you’re an active commenter here or have donated to the blog before today, email me and I’ll hook you up with a free copy. Otherwise, it’s totally free if you use Blogger. It also works with Movable Type and WordPress, and TypePad is coming soon. It’s Windows only for now, but we’re looking for a good Mac developer.
This frickin’ thing has been my personal project for a year and a half. It’s my nerd novel, my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the blogosphere. Please check it out and tell all your blogging friends!
P.S. A certain sharp-eyed mutineer spotted it yesterday…
Update: Please post technical questions here so as not to bother the good people of the Mutiny.
If you want to read a scoop review…go
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Out of curiosity, what’s RocketPost written in, C#? And were you the only person doing the coding?
Neat tool 🙂
Manish, congratulations on achieving the finished product, and good luck with the next phase of this (i.e., selling it).
I hope you’re contacting schools and universities with this announcement. A lot of them are starting to incorporate blogging in various ways into teaching and online learning. But they are struggling to get people over the hump of the HTML technology barrier. They might be interested in licensing…
Just an idea…
Congratulations Manish!
I’ll clicked on RocketPost on my own yesterday or even earlier this week at sepia mutiny. I’ll like to have an account, please. Thank you.
I pay fair amount of money for my blog (and I hardly post, maybe few a month) – squarespace. It has someamazing features.
Good work dude!
sigh. no lowe for the iBook. 😉
THIS is why none of my posts are going to have those fancy-schmancy pulled quotes, people. just so you know.
i too await the mac version… nonetheless, congrats on the launch.
peace
Manish, i’ll take one.
You must really like Ayn Rand.
My 2 cents here – Go free. Increase your market share and wait to get bought out.
Disclaimer: I do not blog.
Very cool, congratulations!
-Another Mac person that’ll have to wait.
First of all congratulations. I do not have a blog. But who exactly is an active commentor? : ) How about a free copy for those who donated to Sepia Mutiny?
But I shall try to spread the word around, wherever I can.
Wow! Am excited to see what this is like. I can use it at home on the PC… and will have to wait on the Mac version before I can waste any more time at work 😉
Congratulations, Manish! It’s wonderful to see hard work come to fruition.
Congratulations, Manish!
I too look forward to the Mac version. Meanwhile I’ll type those html blockquote tags by hand.
Ahh… now it makes sense! I picked up on a lot of repetitive rocketry in your Hipsterville post. Subconscious marketing? Pretty sneaky Manish 😉
Hey, congrats Manish – a much needed product. Sign me up!
Congrats, Manish! Seems very intuitive and looks really clean– definitely will be in demand!
Thanks for all the good vibes, folks!
It’s written in C++.
Definitely! Just email me.
It’s risky– if nobody makes an offer, you have no business.
Great idea, thanks.
Maybe it’s just phallic 😉
There’s actually a funny story there that I can’t tell in public– send me your email and I’ll share.
Manish, is the blogger license for one blog mean you have to HAVE only one blogger blog or you can only USE it on one blogger blog? And are there special blogger permissions you have to set to make sure RocketPost can see your blog to choose it for editing? My installation only seems to be able to see one of my blogger blogs, and not the one I want it to.
Very exciting though.
An aside. Today, for random reasons, I am using IE, not firefox, and I see that it has the nifty formatting buttons which were heretofore mythical to me. Does anyone know of a firefox plug in that will liberate these nifty buttons from the dark sid? (I kid, I kid!)
Good job!
Thanks for pointing that out. Fixed– just reinstall.
The buttons now appear in Firefox. The work I do for you 😉
Sweet. SWEET!You know you like to. 🙂
Though actually, I think I will stick to italicizing quotes. It’s easier for me to read.
Thanks!
Great work Manish! Congratulations! I’m a blogger blogger so I will make use of this.
Congratulations Manish! I would second Amardeep’s suggestion.
Thanks, guys!
If you know any good Mac developers, let me know, I’m on the lookout.
Nice catch! Yeah, I dig it.
how about mentioning the size of the download somewhere? In firefox, it downloaded as a “Size Unknown”. It’s a real fabulous tool, though. Could I feature it in a tech magazine? Would be interesting…
Thanks, and most definitely.
Done. Say, for future technical questions, how about posting them here so as not to bother the good people of the Mutiny.
Very impressive blog editor..congrats Manish
I liked your “Jaisim Fountainhead Musings” post too.
You might enjoy reading “The Journals of Ayn Rand ” if you did not read them already. Aynrand’s journals on her life, books, novel characters and how she created them, on objectivism and philosophy she believed in etc., compiled by David Harriman (Editor) and Leonard Peikoff.
She writes about how she collected material for fountainhead, her research on architecture, which helped her create Roark’s character and also the kind of architecture he believed in…
Congratualtions to Manish for completing this application. I am impressed.
Amardeep’s idea is great in terms of productizing it.
I have been patiently waiting… just wondering on an update. Mac version? In the works? Please? Pretty please with bhel puri on top?
keeping my little fingers crossed. And toes for extra luck.
I am curious if anyone has a way of reaching Manish at Anconia. I am having serious problems with getting anyone at the company to respond to me. I have contacted several people who Anconia lists on their website as providing testimonials who have indicated that they requested Anconia to remove their names from the website and have received no response. It appears Anconia is not responding to more than just me. If anyone has any suggestions or has a phone # for Anconia or knows Manish, I would greatly appreciate you contacting me at mbreston@IronHarbor.com . Thanks!!!!