Creating a Blog Tool in 2025 - Good Idea?

Wordpress, Wix, Squarespace and Blogger are all perfectly good blog tools that are highly developed but I've gone in a different direction and made my own.

Built on my learn by making projects platform that use the PHP framework Laravel its been quite a learning experience, making it into package instead of following along with standard tutorials and also looking at from Content Marketing, business view points I have to question was it, will it be worthwhile.

Grand ambitions of implementing server side logging and web analytics, popular posts metrics have taken a backseat as I wrestle with my reaching my own done deal of putting up one blog this weekend. Even if there's no image just yet.

Balance self build tools with convienince of no/low code options.

What's Missing?

Let me think what makes all those site great?

• WYSIWYG Editor - Currently writing this in plain HTML file in visual studio code.
• Comments
• YOAST and all its SEO benefits