A technical blog on Hashnode or on Typoza
For developers who blog on Hashnode and want to know what leaving its community would change.
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Publishing a post on Hashnode
- Written in Markdown
- Shown in the community feed and on tag pages
- Synced to GitHub, on the paid tier
- Read first by developers already on Hashnode
Publishing it on Typoza
- Written with blocks for code tabs and callouts
- Sent for review, if your team works that way
- Emailed to your subscribers
- Reached from search engines and links
If you write about code, Hashnode is built for you. You write in Markdown, your posts appear in its community feed and on its tag pages, and its paid tier adds your own domain, a GitHub backup, an API and headless mode.
The community is the reason to choose it. Developers on Hashnode can read a new post before any search engine has indexed it, and a Typoza workspace has no community feed to put it in. On Typoza, readers come from search engines, links, feeds and your own subscribers.
Typoza's case rests on the editor and the team. Code in tabs, spec sheets, callouts and spoilers are blocks you pick from a menu. From the Collective plan, roles range from Owner to Reviewer, with a Marketer who handles the Letter, and one account can hold several workspaces, each with its own domain.
Point by point
| What we compare | Typoza | Hashnode |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is for | Anyone who publishes regularly; technical writing is covered, not required. | Developers writing about software; that focus is the product. |
| Price | Free on a Typoza subdomain; your own domain from the Collective plan. | Free on a hashnode.dev address; your own domain in the paid tier. |
| Readers | Search engines, links, feeds, your subscribers and an opt-in directory. | The community feed, tag pages and recommendations, plus search engines. |
| The editor | Blocks for code tabs, callouts, spec sheets and spoilers, with Markdown shortcuts. | Markdown. |
| Working as a team | From Collective: Owner, Admin, Editor, Author, Marketer and Reviewer, with review before publishing. | Editors and contributors, with drafts submitted for review. |
| Backup | A Markdown and JSON archive on demand, on every plan. | A GitHub sync of every post and draft, on the paid tier. |
| Newsletter | The Letter: each post by email or in a digest, segments, hand-written messages. | A newsletter for each blog. |
| Several publications | Several workspaces on Collective, as many as you like on Studio, each with its domain and team. | More blogs per account with the paid tier. |
What Hashnode does better
Every comparison has this section, and it is never empty. We lose on these points:
- Readers on day one. Hashnode shows new posts to developers in its feed and on tag pages; a new Typoza site starts with the readers you bring.
- Markdown from end to end. Typoza's editor takes Markdown shortcuts as you type, but it stores blocks, and Markdown only comes out in the export.
- GitHub sync, on the paid tier. Every post and draft lands in a repository; Typoza's archive is a download.
- Headless mode and an API. You can write on Hashnode and render the posts on your own front end; Typoza offers neither.
- Bulk Markdown import, on the paid tier. Typoza's importer reads WordPress export files only.
Moving from Hashnode
Keep your Markdown as your own archive: our importer reads WordPress export files only, so it will not take them. Move each post by copying it from its published page into our editor.
What comes across
- Text and structure, copied from each published post: headings, lists, quotes, links and code blocks.
- Your slugs, shown on every Hashnode post; type the same one into Typoza.
- A domain you own, which moves to Typoza with the Collective plan.
- Your newsletter subscribers, if you can get them out as a CSV: Typoza imports the file once you confirm they agreed to your emails.
What does not
- The readers Hashnode's feed and tag pages sent you. The cost starts with the first post, because Typoza has no community feed.
- The GitHub sync, replaced by an archive you download when you want one.
- The reactions and comments under your posts. Typoza has both, and they start again from zero.
- Pictures, which go back in one upload at a time: the editor keeps only images from your library.
- Headless mode and the API, if you built on them.
So, which one?
Pick Hashnode if…
Hashnode makes sense if you write about software for other developers and want its community reading you from the first post.
Pick Typoza if…
Typoza makes sense if your writing reaches beyond code, if several people publish together, or if you want readers to arrive at your site instead of a feed.
Questions people ask next
Is a custom domain free on Hashnode?
Not for a new blog. It belongs to Hashnode's paid tier, and blogs that had one before the change kept it. On Typoza, connecting a domain you own takes the Collective plan.
Is Typoza's editor better for technical posts?
It is different. Tabbed code, spec sheets and callouts come from the slash menu, laid out and readable on a phone, and you never type their syntax. If you think in Markdown, Hashnode will feel more natural.
Do I lose my readers by moving?
The ones who found you through Hashnode's feed, yes. Newsletter subscribers can come with you if you can export their addresses; Typoza takes the list as a CSV, with your word that they agreed to hear from you.
Does Typoza sync to GitHub?
No. You download a full archive in Markdown and JSON whenever you want, on every plan. For a docs-as-code workflow, Hashnode's GitHub sync does something we do not.
Can I run several publications?
Yes. One account holds several workspaces on the Collective plan and as many as you need on Studio, each with its own domain, identity and team.
The post you keep putting off
Write its first paragraph today. The post stays a draft until you publish it, and no reader sees it before then.
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