Inkpress is a complete self-hosted markdown blog — the kind you'd pay Ghost $9/mo ($108/yr, $324+ over three years) for. Write in a split-pane markdown editor with live preview rendered by the exact same pipeline that ships to production, and publish to genuinely zero-JavaScript, server-rendered pages that load instantly and survive a Hacker News spike. Everything lives in one SQLite file you can back up with cp. For developers, writers, and indie hackers who want a fast blog they actually own.

• Zero-JS public pages by default — pure HTML/CSS, perfect Lighthouse scores

• 3 built-in themes: Paper (light serif), Carbon (dark dev-blog), Editorial (magazine) — switch site-wide in one click

• Server-side syntax highlighting via Shiki — beautiful code blocks, no client bundle

• Draft / scheduled / published workflow — scheduled posts go live automatically, no cron

• SEO done right: per-post meta overrides, OG/Twitter cards, canonical URLs, RSS 2.0, sitemap.xml

• Slug-rename 301 redirect table — never break an inbound link

• Drag/paste image upload, auto-resized via sharp

• Tags with dedicated tag pages

Runs as a Windows desktop app or on a $5 VPS (Docker included).

What's included:

• Windows installer download (build via npm run dist)

• Full source access — https://github.com/bensblueprints/inkpress (MIT)

• Lifetime v1 updates

• Setup guide (README quick start)

• Premium tiers coming later