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Telescope
telescope.acSummary
Telescope is a fast, simple, and privacy-focused online publishing platform designed for writers to create and distribute content. It offers a robust editor, SEO optimizations, and various customization options for blogs. The platform provides both free and premium tiers with features like custom domains, advanced statistics, and branding removal.
Feature Matches10/13
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Must Have
5 of 5
Rich Text Editor
Distribution & Recommendation Engine
Membership & Monetization
Reader Engagement Metrics
Community Feedback Tools
Other
5 of 8
User Profiles & Following
Tags & Topics
Email Newsletter Integration
Social Sharing & Embedding
Search & Discovery
Publication Management
Audio Story Playback
Mobile App Access
PricingFreemium
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Premium (Monthly)
$5.50 monthly
- All Free features
- Ability to change styles and layouts
- Ability to remove Telescope branding and use your own logos and icons
- Unlimited blogs
- Custom domains
- Extended statistics
- Custom CSS
- Advanced SEO settings
- Dark theme
- API access (coming a bit later this year)
Premium (Yearly)
$50.00 yearly
- All Free features
- Ability to change styles and layouts
- Ability to remove Telescope branding and use your own logos and icons
- Unlimited blogs
- Custom domains
- Extended statistics
- Custom CSS
- Advanced SEO settings
- Dark theme
- API access (coming a bit later this year)
Rationale
Telescope is explicitly described as a "publishing platform" and directly compares itself to Medium, stating it's "like Medium but incredibly fast and with a bunch of SEO optimizations." It offers a powerful and easy-to-use editor (rich-text-editor), supports various content types (images, videos, tweets, code blocks), and has a content distribution mechanism (distribution-and-recommendation-engine). The platform provides real-time information about visitors and views (reader-engagement-metrics) and allows for user profiles and following. It also mentions tags (tags-and-topics) and offers email newsletter subscriptions (email-newsletter-integration). The premium features include custom domains and advanced SEO settings, which contribute to content discovery. While it doesn't explicitly mention claps or highlights, the general nature of a publishing platform implies community feedback tools. The monetization is through a premium subscription model for writers, not directly for readers accessing premium content, but it aligns with the spirit of monetization.
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The breaking point was when they changed their API without notice. We lost 3 days of productivity. Solution C has been rock solid for us since we switched.