Pagecord

Pagecord is a minimalist blogging platform for people who want a home on the web without running a CMS. You get unlimited posts and pages, a custom home page, tags, search, comments, contact forms and RSS, and you can write in the built-in editor, publish by email, or send posts from Obsidian, iA Writer, the API or a command-line tool.

The free Classic plan keeps unlimited posts and pages and allows 20 image and audio uploads. Premium, at 4 dollars a month or 39 dollars a year with a 14-day trial, adds a custom domain, custom CSS, page view analytics and an email newsletter that sends readers each post or a weekly digest. Everything can be exported as HTML or Markdown at any time.

Key benefits:

• Free forever plan with unlimited posts and pages
• Publish by email or from Obsidian, iA Writer, the API and the CLI
• Themes, fonts and custom CSS for a site that looks like your own
• Email newsletter for up to 250 subscribers on Premium
• Privacy-focused analytics that can be switched off entirely
• Custom domain included with Premium
• Full export in HTML or Markdown, so your writing stays portable

Pagecord is run by Pagecord Ltd, a bootstrapped company registered in Edinburgh, Scotland, and led by its founder Olly Headey. Its privacy policy lists Hetzner servers and an Ubicloud managed database in Germany, with file storage on Cloudflare R2 in Western Europe. Some processors, including OpenAI for content moderation, may handle data outside the UK and EEA under standard contractual clauses.

The code is public on GitHub under the Pagecord Licence, which allows self-hosting but forbids offering it to others as a hosted service, so it is source-available rather than open source in the OSI sense.