Alexander Isora 🦄

Blogs by Unicorn Platform - Simple blogging tool for busy founders 🕊

Unicorn Platform — the landing page builder for SaaS — presents its blogging tool. Creating a blog is now as easy as clicking a button.
Create a blog today and start getting constant traffic from search engines tomorrow ( ᵘ ᵕ ᵘ ⁎)
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Alexander Isora 🦄

Hello, dear Product Hunt community! 🙂
Our team proudly presents Blogs — the new member of the Unicorn Platform ecosystem. It took 7 months of hard work for the whole team and now it is ready for the public.

Fun fact: initially I thought it will take 2 months to ship blogs. Ah, planning was never my strong part!

The editor

The text editor we use is heavily inspired by Notion and Medium. All the basic stuff is there: bold, italic, links, code, quotes, h2, h3, h4, embeds, checklists, images (we autogenerate alts based on the filename if you did not specify an alt explicitly 😌), and hotkeys.
Enough words. Just look:


SEO ready

You have full control over meta tags, social share options, headings, image alts, sitemap.xml, robots.txt. Your blog post is brilliantly displayed on both mobile and desktop devices and protected with an auto-refreshing TLS 1.2 SSL certificate.
Even though we reached 90/100 and 99/100 score on the Google PageSpeed Insights, we constantly work on the loading speed metric (planned updates for 2021: CDN for API requests, images loseless compression, serving images as WebP).

Test it yourself if you do not trust GIFs from the Internet: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funicornplatform.com%2Fblog%2F13-free-illustrations-sites%2F&tab=desktop

We take loading speed seriously because "Speed is now a landing page factor for Google Search and Ads" 🤓

The fusion

The neatest thing is that your blog is seamlessly integrated with your landing page. One source of control, consonant design, one invoice for 2 tools 🙂
And most importantly, you blog will be placed in your root domain.
"Starting a blog? I almost always recommend yoursite.com/blog over blog.yoursite.com." - Rand Fishkin, Moz's co-founder (source).

However, if you want to use another tool for your landing page, you still can easily connect a Unicorn Platform blog to your current ecosystem by attaching a subdomain as a blog root URL.

Customization

Unicorn Platform is a simple tool. We added all the essential settings. The noise is kept aside.
You can customize your blog URL and domain, SEO meta tags, fonts, colors, navigation and footer. That is it.
“How many things are there which I do not want.” – Socrates

However, if you need something special (e.g., embed an Airtable or a TypeForm), you can plug custom HTML right inside a blog post.

What is next

This is not the final form of our blogging module. We carefully collect, sort and store each user feedback and implement it sooner or later.
We are looking for ReactJS ninjas to deliver more features. If you want to make difference — apply! Open the JS console for the details.


Examples

Here are some wildlife examples of blogs running on Unicorn Platform:
http://flexiple.com/blog/ — our Pro user enhanced the blog with some custom code. Looks awesome!
https://unicornplatform.com/blog/ — our company blog
https://isora.me/ — personal blogs too baby, yeah! 😎
https://myteapal.com/stories/


Pricing

We keep it dead simple. So you will get unlimited everything starting from the Startup plan ($18/m).
It includes unlimited website pages, unlimited blog posts, unlimited page views, all form integrations, Stripe integration, and our notorious premium chat support 😈

You can check out the full pricing in the app after signing up: https://app.unicornplatform.com/account


Love you, Unicorn Platform team.
Graeme
@alexanderisora blogs is a game changer! didn't even think about using it for a personal blog, let's do it! 🦄🦄🦄
Alexander Isora 🦄
@michael_sieb it can be even faster! 😽 And will!
Alexander De Ridder
@alexanderisora love your update, we are customers as well. Glad you look into PageSpeed as something important. You got so close - almost there: your blog doesn't yet pass the Core Vitals test, which is an important ranking signal which will launch in May 2021.
Alexander Isora 🦄
@adridder hi Alexander. Thanks for the valuable input. We plan to focus on reaching a high scores at the Core Vitals test too. Our domain is not passing the test because of this URL: https://app.unicornplatform.com/ This URL contains our app (the builder). It has too huge Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS). It is because it is SPA and content is actively changed in SPA. I do not see a critical problem here because our focus is to pass the Core Vitals tests for visitors' websites - and it is done. We will just improve the score.
Anastasiya Yavorskaya
Cheers, Unicorn team! Well done 🤗
Alexander Isora 🦄
@anastasiya_yavorskaya Hi Anastasiya. Thanks for your awesome illustrations! 😇 Craftwork did a big help to us.
Hans Dekker
Huge fan of Unicornplatform here and this is a game changer. Loving it!
Alexander Isora 🦄
@hans_dekker thanks for this love, Hans! 🥰
Ravi Kumar
Unicorn Platform has come a long way since its beginnings.! Wishing you all the best
Alexander Isora 🦄
@ravikckm thanks for being our veteran follower, Ravi 😍
Eduard Khorkov
Great update! A tiny issue I noticed -- whenever I click on company logo on top right it stays on the blog page. I guess it should go back to home page. Other than that all is great!
Alexander Isora 🦄
@ekhorkov hi Edouard. Great addition. We will work on this 🤜⚡️🤛
Vijay Bharadwaj
Wonderful and Solid product
Aishwary Dhare
Just what I was looking for past few days! Thanks.
Artem Shar
@aishwary_dhare1 I hope you will be able to launch your projects faster. Thank you!
Alexander Isora 🦄
@aishwary_dhare1 let me know if Unicorn Platform was a fit for you when you try it 😉
Daryll Wong
Great to have SEO right up and ability to connect your custom domain!
Alexander Isora 🦄
@daryllman thanks Daryll. We believe in this simple formula for our blogs: simplicity + SEO.
Dagobert Renouf
Beautiful extension to an already amazing product. Good work!
Alexander Isora 🦄
@dagorenouf appreciate your support Dagobert! 😌
Mukhtar Mohamoud
I've been using the Blogs feature for a while now and I can honestly say that I love the ease of use and simplicity! Major W from us 🥳
Alexander Isora 🦄
@mukhtarmohamoud thanks for being with us and for the support! Good luck with your project https://newny.io/
Juan Sarmiento
Fantastic work @alexanderisora, a great complement to your landing creator! Congratulations 🎊
Alexander Isora 🦄
@juanpablosarmi thanks for the support here and on Telegram, Juan 🙏
Barbara
This is awesome! 🙌
Eric Capella
Best landing page builder and amazing team behind the project!
Alexander Isora 🦄
@ericcapella thanks for the warm words 😅
Denis Shepherd
Great awesome update! Congrats with the launch! ❤️
Ferruccio Balestreri
Congrats alex!! So cool to see unicorn platform evolving over the years :)
Alexander Isora 🦄
@frcbls thanks for being with us for so long time, Ferruccio! 😎
Steven Kryger
I looked at a lot of landing page platforms and chose Unicorn and haven’t looked back!
Nazim @Koinju
Sounds great, can't wait to discover the product
Artem Shar
@nazim_m feel free to ask if you have any questions or suggestions, we also have the public roadmap https://trello.com/b/P5mOquUI/un...
Chloe Chia
Been a long time user of Unicorn Blogs. 100x better than Wordpress, Squarespace, Wix. Congrats on the new launch!
Johannes
Wonderful! Adding a blog to a site isn't as easy as it should be... well, until now! Thanks @alexanderisora & team!
Alexander Isora 🦄
@daimo haha thanks! 🙌
Artem Shar
@daimo thank you!
Kirill Tereshchenko
Congrats with the new awesome huge feature, Unicorn team!🤘🏼
Alexander Isora 🦄
@rtkirill thank you comrade! 😇