moss

Write anywhere. Publish everywhere. Own everything.

moss turns a folder of markdown into a website. The folder on your disk is the site: there is no database, no CMS and no project to configure. Write in any editor, and moss builds the pages, the navigation, the styling and dark mode, then publishes them.

Why moss

Your files stay on your computer. Your site lives on your domain. Your audience remains yours.

Like its namesake, moss thrives in the spaces others overlook. It doesn’t compete with platforms for sunlight. It creates the foundation layer that enables an ecosystem: you publish to your own site first, and to the platforms your readers use second.

• No setup. Point moss at a folder. Sensible defaults stand in for a build config.
• Any editor. moss’s own app, Obsidian, Typora, or anything else that saves markdown.
• Media handled. Images, video, HTML and Jupyter notebooks. Drop them in the folder.
• Publish and syndicate. To mosspub.com hosting (provided by Symbiosis Lab), or anywhere a deploy target or plugin reaches, then on to other platforms, with comments synced back.
• Yours to extend. CSS, JavaScript and plugins, with no…