Nicholas Martin
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Platform as a ServiceWhat is Medium?
Medium is a different kind of place on the internet. A place where the measure of success isn’t views, but viewpoints. Where the quality of the idea matters, not the author’s qualifications. A place where conversation pushes ideas forward.
Medium is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Embedding videos, tweets, vines, etcWord counterDraftsNotesVersion historyEmbed Medium anywherePublicationsCustom domainsDiscussionTopics
Medium Pros & Cons
Pros of Medium
- ✓Beautiful UI
- ✓Typography
- ✓Network effect
- ✓Embedding videos, tweets, vines
- ✓Great mobile app
- ✓Simple, yet elegant and appealing UX
- ✓Notes
- ✓Word counter
- ✓Easy to gain traction
- ✓Idealized media consumption
Cons of Medium
No cons listed yet.
Medium Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Medium?
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
