Introducing Welcomments

Hey there! I’m Iiro, and I’m building Welcomments, a new comment system for static sites.

Initially, I built Welcomments for my personal Jekyll blog. I was using Disqus but grew frustrated with its bloat, ads, and tracking. I built Welcomments in a few months, and I’ve been using it on my blog for a year now.

I met someone in a bar recently that needed static comments for his Jekyll site and was willing to pay for it. I made it super easy for him to integrate Welcomments to his site.

As a consequence, there’s now a fancy admin panel with some bells and whistles that anyone can use to add static comments to their website.

I’m making Welcomments into a polished product so that everyone with a JAMStack site can have a nice commenting experience without the bloat.

2 comments

Glad I came across this article. I’ve been comparing a few options around Independent Verity Mod guide for choosing Java or Bedrock editions, and Verity Mod Guide tool feels more focused than most. This gave me a few good ideas.

Reply to Taylor Kim
GiftVideo team

A lightweight static comment system can also make the submission state especially clear. If publishing waits for a site rebuild or moderation, the receipt could say which step is pending rather than leaving the reader to infer success from an empty form. On a failed request, retaining the draft and explaining whether it was received would help prevent duplicate submissions. That small bit of feedback seems well aligned with the simpler commenting experience described here. Disclosure: I’m commenting on behalf of GiftVideo.

Reply to GiftVideo team

GitHub-flavored Markdown & a sane subset of HTML is supported.

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