ULTRVA

A minimalist blogging platform

No tracking. No algorithms. No noise. Just your writing.

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A place to blog where your words are the entire point. No engagement metrics, no follower counts, no feeds deciding who reads what. Write something, publish it, move on.

We think of this as part of the small web — the part of the internet still made by people, for people.

Start your blog → See blogs on ULTRV

Prefer the terminal? Install the CLI — write and publish without leaving the command line.

Highlights

A few things ULTRV does differently.

  • More than posts

    Typed pages with their own URLs — photo albums, recipe collections, bookshelves, guestbooks, now pages.

  • Eighty-four themes

    Switch looks in one click. Brutalist, GeoCities, Synthwave, Tufte, Bauhaus, and seventy-nine more.

  • Terminal client

    A full TUI built with Ratatui. Write, publish, and manage blogs without leaving the shell.

  • Your own domain

    Point a domain at your blog with a CNAME or A record. SSL is provisioned automatically.

  • RSS, Atom, JSON

    Every blog ships all three feed formats with auto-discovery and per-tag feeds. No plugins.

  • No trackers, no ads

    No Google Analytics, no pixels, no third-party scripts. Just your words, your images, your domain.

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The long view

Why ULTRV will still be here when you come back.

Pen-and-ink illustration of a lighthouse on a small cliff. A sign on the fence reads ULTRV. A single bird crosses the sky overhead.

ULTRV is funded by the people who use it. The numbers add up at the size we are now. We don't need to be ten times bigger next year to keep the lights on, and we don't have to chase a market we don't believe in. No ads, no investors, no growth targets pulling the product somewhere weird.

This is the work we want to be doing, full stop. ULTRV isn't a side project, an experiment, or a stepping stone to something bigger. We're here, and we're not going anywhere. The server bills are paid for the next ten years.

It runs on the solid, well-trodden parts of the web. Plain HTML for your blog, RSS for your feeds, a standard database on standard servers. The kind of technology that's been doing this same job for twenty years and will keep doing it for twenty more. Nothing here depends on the JavaScript framework of the month.

Your writing is yours, by default and forever. Hit export and you get a folder: HTML, images, feeds, ready to host anywhere. That's a permanent commitment, baked into the platform.