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After reading this post ( http://www.philwhln.com/quoras-technology-examined) about Quora's technology and and large scale web infrastructure, I thought to myself, Wow this interesting. But then I thought, How the hell did they know what to do?

-Where do I go to learn this kind of stuff ?

webapps like pen.io and quitewrite provide a service where writers can have a nice place to host their writing outside of a blog, pdf or ebook format. Are there any writers out there who KNOW what they want? What are the key features, what keeps you coming back and what are the nice-to-haves.

Some possibilities to get the discussion started. - Sharing features ( Twitter, Facebook , Reddit?) - Unbranded by the host (ie. no quitewrite logo) - WYSIWYG - Custom CSS - Pagination - analytics - Anonymity - ability to sell the content - Private / Public viewing - blog cross posting - short-URLs - Permanent vs Editable - "show more from this author" link - HTML, Markdown or other markup languages

Hey Everyone,

So this was a weekend project that I did basically as a favor to a friend of mine who is a writer. This friend wanted a simple way to publish his short stories on the web that gave him a short url for tweeting and had no associated branding with the published work. Essentially this is what I have done here with publ.ca . My question is that I want to know where I should take this project in terms of features.

Possible extensions to this project are:

- automatic tweeting when publishing - custom layouts and designs - markdown rendering - user accounts ( FB connect or Google Accounts ?) - analytics - publisher dashboard

I am curious if anyone has any suggestions for features that they would want from a project like this.

Any criticism is good criticism.

Here is an example of a tech crunch article displayed in publ.ca - publ.ca/ab47 - ( original source: http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/android-honeycomb-ipad/)

TL;DR - Publ.ca looking for feature suggestions and feedback