It's been a great month for Write.as! Since our soft launch earlier this month, we've seen the most new posts of any month in our 17-month existence — many of which now live with other posts on new Write.as blogs.
We've been working hard on polishing everything up since our launch, and lately have made a few minor improvements we wanted to share:
Better post URL generation. Write.as automatically generates URLs for your blog posts, and now we've made them smarter, so your links are always descriptive but concise.
A better writeas.com experience. If you originally picked writeas.com for your blog URL, you should have an easier time editing and getting to your posts now.
Tagging when cross-posting to Medium. Now any hashtags you include in your posts will automatically be added to your Medium post as tags (they'll also show up in your cross-tweet, if posting to Twitter).
Better text on hi-res displays. We made some simple changes to make text look beautiful on your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and any other high-resolution display.
As we approach July, you'll see new documentation on all the extra things you can do with Write.as, plus some updates to the Chrome extension and more. See you later.
We want everyone to see what our best features are like before committing to a Pro subscription. So now we're giving everyone 3 cross-posts per month for free! Now you can get your writing out to your Twitter, Tumblr, or Medium followers even easier.
Once you've created a Write.as blog, simply go to your Blogs page and add the channels you want to post to. They'll show up in the Write.as editor for new posts, where you can choose which ones to publish each entry to. We cross-post what makes sense for each channel, so places like Twitter get a short summary with a link to the post, where Tumblr and Medium get the full content, including any title or hashtags you send along.
If you use up your cross-posts, you'll get more at the beginning of each month. But you can also remove the limit by upgrading (and you'll get other useful features, too).
Look for more channels soon, and as always, let us know what you think any time.
We just released a few features on the web:
Create a blog
Sync posts you've written to an account (if you want)
Markdown support on blogs
Customize your post's font on the web (like in our apps)
These will be free to do forever. But we also added a Pro plan that will give us income to keep improving the product. For $4 per month, this is some of what you can do:
Cross-post to Twitter, Tumblr, and Medium
Create multiple blogs
Use a custom domain on your blog
Post via email
We fixed some things and made some minor changes:
Fixed the text editor size on Firefox
Moved to Piwik Analytics from Google Analytics, which we host and control. It offers better privacy for you and respects Do Not Track
We're still polishing some things, and want to hear from you on what you think so far. Keep an eye out for our app updates next, keep up with our roadmap on Trello, and we'll let you know when we've made a little more progress.