So where do I put an article, so it's discoverable, if not on Medium?

You could use Gurlic. Here's an example.

https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i

Themed:

https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=pudding

https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=minimal

https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=naked

Gurlic supports custom domains too, by the way:

https://classics.wtf (this is a publication hosted on gurlic)

https://classics.wtf/the-iliad-book-ii

The main site that I shared with HN about a month ago already has a handful of users, but nobody is actively writing articles. I'm happy to hand out a free .COM domain to anybody who wants to help test Gurlic's article editor.

https://gurlic.com if you want to check out the rest of the site..

GitLab/GitHub pages? Long ago, I took notes[0] for myself and put them in a repo. It was easy to set up GitLab to build them.

I also had blogs. As a student living in an underbanked country, I wanted to trade stocks. I jumped through hoops to find a broker in the U.S. that would allow me to do that. I contacted so many that when I found one, I started a blog just for the article.

To get going, I needed a MasterCard. I jumped through so many hoops, literally knocking on banks' doors, being given conflictin/inaccurate/incomplete information, that when I finally go the card, I put up that article in the blog [almost a thousand comments and replies, hundreds of thousands have read it, and I became the 'internet payments' guy in the country]

- [0]: https://jhadjar.gitlab.io/kbase

- [1]: https://dzdinars.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/carte-visa-masterc...

Best option is to approach a blog in your niche and offer them guest post. This way you get your content published and they get fresh content. Both are benefitted.

If you like Medium's writing interface, use it. Just be sure to publish your articles without opting in to monetization, if you want your content to live outside the paywall. It'll still be discoverable through Google (I get >1m reads through Google / Bing / Social).

Medium gets a lot of well-deserved hate because they employed some super scummy tactics in the past.

For example, they won't promote your content on their network though unless you opt-in to monetization. Which sucks.

But they're backing off on some other points like asking guest users to sign in or click through a popup before reading an article.

Substack is super polished, if you haven't tried it. Similar interface & setup.

Contact me via my profile details and I’ll try to help you! I’d need to know your niche. I fancy the challenge! I been posting stuff for a while so quite adept at getting a most amount of eyes on a tech post.

However if you prefer I post a tip here: ... try subreddits and get involved with the communities and understand their norms about sharing links.

https://dev.to ?

The problem is writing something good. Not SEO.

Sort out the first one and the other will follow.

Have you considered an analog pathway such as a technical journal?

Edit: Just as I clicked submit.. What about a white paper on your website? Just leave it there and load it up with SEO.

https://telegra.ph/ is a place... But you have to take care of making it searchable and findable by yourself.

a free "problem_name.wordpress.com" type setup might suit your needs?

https://wordpress.com/free/

If you already have a website, maybe just make it a page there? No need to make a whole "Blog" section with this as the first entry.

If it has anything to do with code, maybe a GitHub Gist?

I'd just post on blogspot or a free blog from wordpress.com. Then use HN / Reddit / Twitter for discoverability instead of relying on Medium.

https://write.as/

the most simple blogging experience on the web.

Try blogspot free hosting and then by a domain. Also then monetize it and donate the money

here isn't a bad starting place

Substack