I’m shutting down seed.town.
It was meant to be an easy way to build content sites. Write one page and publish it, add more whenever you want. The structure grows around your writing, not the other way around.
The showcase had sites I’ve made before, like friedrice.fun, Husker, and National Service Resources. Every one took too much planning before I wrote anything, which is what seed.town was meant to fix.
The main idea was simple: write first, structure later.
Most personal sites die in the planning stage. You make categories for posts you haven’t written, and them you never write them.
On seed.town, you just write pages. Tag them if you want. Later, a rollup like “everything tagged recipes, newest first” turns them into a list.
I wanted to let structure evolve organically.
I wasn’t motivated to keep building it.
It’s so easy to make sites now. I can make my own CMS on demand, like the one I’m writing this in.
And seed.town never gave me enough customization. To get there, I’d have to build everything the web already does. The web is customizable enough, so it wasn’t worth it to me.
The domain is going away, so I moved its blog posts here: I bought seed.town and Rich text or markdown?.