Hello World

What better way to start a new blog than with the traditional Hello World that we all learn to code when we start programming?

So yes, I'm starting a new blog on Writizzy, because I'm going to eat my own dog food, as they say.

My name is Hugo Lassiège. I've been blogging since 2001. I started as a writer on developpez.com, then got my own domain (hakanai.free.fr) on the hosting provider everyone in France used back then: free.fr.

I moved through Joomla, then WordPress. I self-hosted for a while, then got tired of it because WordPress is a pain to maintain long-term and quickly becomes bloated.

So I switched to wordpress.com.

But I quickly found it too expensive, and I was looking for a different writing experience.

So I built my own static site generator with Nuxt and eventually open-sourced it as Bloggrify.

A bit later, I launched hakanai.io because, let's face it, a static blog lacks certain features, and I thought I could provide them. It's a SaaS that adds features like newsletters, blog analytics, and I have other ideas to turn it into a toolbox for static blogs.

Still, I'm well aware that many people are looking for a much simpler experience. So eventually, after a chance encounter, I decided to start Writizzy - the platform you're reading this on - which will be a managed blogging platform representing, I hope, the synthesis of over 20 years of writing blog posts.

I'm not abandoning my other blog eventuallymaking.io where I'll continue writing more technical articles and sharing experiences from my other life as the founder of a startup that did pretty well in France and Europe.

This blog will be more of a journal about building in public, thoughts on entrepreneurship, and work-life balance.

So, all over the place, it'll cover building Writizzy, Hakanai, Bloggrify. What works, or doesn't. And it won't really be about technical stuff - I save that for my other blog. Instead, I'll talk about experiments and... we'll see.

Anyway, welcome to this blog.