Komments, seven months on

Seven months ago I had an idea, which led to me creating a thing!

I was using a blogging tool but there was no commenting feature on it.  I decided to write something myself, as a side-loaded app, to add to my blog.  It quickly became a bigger thing and I decided to offer it to anyone.   

Komments.cloud was born.

It's a really simple idea.  You create a Komments page related to your own page and add this link on your web page.  Viewers to your page can then click on the link and add comments.  There's no login required.  No hoops to jump through.  No annoying Capatcha. Any comments are then quickly moderated by you before publishing.

I was not sure how well it would be received, but I am delighted with the usage.

My admin dashboard:

186 users are signed up; they have 2,793 pages with the ability to add comments; 2,901 people have left comments.  It has come a long way since I first published stats in July 2024.

Most people use it for comments on individual blog posts, but some use it as a Guest book, or a general comments page for their entire site.

The blogging platform Scribbles (which you are reading now) has taken it a stage further and they use my simple API to auto-create a new Komments page for each blog post their users create; automatically adding a comments button.

This blog post has a comments option below, which shows how it works.

It's great to have developed something so simple that is getting used by others.