Kliv

    Content Management & Publishing

    Build your own blogging platform

    Kliv is an AI app builder. Describe your blogging platform, and it builds your archive, reader list, paid supporter tier, publish emails, moderated comments, and search-readable pages on your own domain.

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    Just enter your idea into the text box and AI will build it for you

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    What is Kliv?

    Kliv isn’t a hosted blog theme — it’s an AI that builds software for you.

    You describe the site you need in plain words, and Kliv builds it: the pages, archive, reader records, publishing flow, paywall, email, comments, and admin screens. What you get is a real website that’s yours, on your own domain, and you can change it later by asking. It isn’t a template.

    On this page, that site is a blogging platform. Kliv builds all kinds of web apps; publications are one kind.

    Why build your own blogging platform?

    A publication with years of writing needs more than a feed. It needs an archive people can search, free and paid pieces, a reader list it owns, emails on publish, comments, and pages that search engines and AI assistants can read.

    Kliv builds the publication as your own app. Essays, tags, series, readers, subscriptions, comments, and emails are records and workflows you control. The supporter price is yours, and the gate between free and paid follows the subscription.

    What the publication keeps

    Six pieces make the site a publication, not just a feed.

    Essays and the archive

    Drafts, published pieces, series, tags, corrections, and dates are structured records. The archive can be queried instead of buried under endless scrolling.

    The supporter tier

    Some essays can be free, and others can open at $7 a month. A paid essay is readable only by current supporters.

    The reader list

    Free subscribers and paid supporters live in one list you own: who reads, who pays, who lapsed, and who can be emailed.

    Comments and moderation

    Readers can comment, and nothing needs to go public until it clears your moderation queue. Approve and reject are your controls.

    The publish email

    Publishing a new essay can send an email edition on your template to the readers allowed to receive it.

    The crawlable archive

    Every essay page is prerendered for crawlers, including AI crawlers, and the sitemap is maintained for you.

    An example: Nora and Sam’s policy publication

    Here’s how one publication might use a blogging platform built with Kliv. It’s only an example — you would describe your own archive, paid tier, email list, comments, and search needs.

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    Their archive becomes structured instead of buried

    Nora and Sam have eight years of reporting. Essays become records with dates, tags, series, corrections, and original URLs, so every piece on grid policy since 2019 can have its own page and be queried in order.

    02

    They keep the reader list and the supporter price

    Instead of using a platform that takes a cut of subscriptions and owns the reader list, they run free subscribers and paid supporters in their own database. The supporter tier opens paid essays at $7 a month.

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    Publishing sends the right email edition

    When Nora publishes a public essay, free readers can receive the public email. When Sam publishes a supporter-only piece, only current supporters receive the paid edition on the publication’s template.

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    The paywall follows the subscription record

    A supporter’s payment opens the paid archive the minute it lands, and a lapse closes it on the schedule they set. If a card expires, retries and recovery emails start before they see a cancellation.

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    Comments wait for their moderation queue

    Readers can comment, but nothing goes public until Nora or Sam approves it. Repeat offenders can be blocked by rule, and the standard is whatever the publication says it is.

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    Search and AI can read the work

    Every essay page is prerendered for crawlers, including AI crawlers, and the sitemap is maintained for them. A reader asking about interconnection queues can get their actual pieces, not an infinite-scroll feed.

    Describe the publication you want

    Kliv builds from your description, so the more detail you give, the closer the first version. Include the archive, free and paid rules, email behavior, comments, imports, and search needs. Here are three to build on:

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    Two-writer publication

    Free posts, paid essays, and publish emails.

    “Build a publication site for two writers. Include a public archive with tags and series, supporter subscriptions at $7 a month that unlock paid essays, automatic email to free readers for public posts, supporter-only email for paid essays, and moderated comments.”

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    Local news blog

    Beats, tags, a tip form, and a weekly digest.

    “Build a local news blog. Organize articles by beat and tag, add a tip submission form that emails the editor and creates a review record, send a free weekly digest, and add a members tier that gives early access without hiding public articles.”

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    Research notebook

    Public notes and searchable questions.

    “Build a public research notebook. Let me publish essays and working notes, tag each piece by topic and question, let readers search the archive by asking questions in plain language, and surface popular pieces on the front page.”

    How it comes together

    The paywall follows the subscription. A supporter’s payment opens the paid archive when it lands, and a lapse closes access on the schedule you set. If a card expires, retries and recovery emails run before you see a cancellation.

    Readers can search the archive. Years of essays can be semantically indexed, so a reader asking about interconnection queues gets your relevant pieces rather than a keyword guess. The same index can power a research assistant for supporters, grounded in your writing.

    Your words and code remain yours. The app’s source syncs with your own Git repository, and essays are rows you can export. Moving later is a git pull, not a migration project.

    Analytics are part of the app. You can see which essays convert readers into supporters, which channel brought them, and what the archive earns, with custom events you define in plain words.

    A publication is one shape of a media business; shows, newsletters, and video libraries run on the same bones — surveyed at media on Kliv.

    Common questions

    What exactly is Kliv?

    Kliv is an AI app builder. You describe the blogging platform or publication site you need, and it builds the archive, publishing flow, reader list, paywall, email, comments, and admin tools.

    Do I get a real app, or a template?

    A real app. Essays, readers, subscriptions, comments, tags, and emails are records and workflows built for your publication, not a blog theme you fill in.

    Can I change it after it’s built?

    Yes. You can ask to change layouts, add a new section, adjust the paywall, change email rules, or add archive filters later.

    Can we import years of existing posts?

    Yes. An export from your current platform can load as rows with title, body, date, tags, and original URL so redirects can preserve old links.

    Do we lose search ranking by moving?

    The mechanics are built to protect the archive: real pages, prerendered snapshots for crawlers, a sitemap that updates, redirects from old URLs, and per-page SEO checks that flag weak pages.

    How does the paid tier block non-payers?

    At the row. A supporter-only essay is readable only by accounts whose subscription is current. Visitors without access get the preview and subscribe page, not the full text.

    Can readers pay annually or buy gift subscriptions?

    Yes. Monthly, annual, and gift subscriptions can be products in your catalog, and payments run through your own Stripe account.

    Does Kliv take a cut of subscriptions?

    No. Kliv does not take a per-subscriber cut. Payments run on your Stripe account, and card fees are between you and Stripe.

    What about spam in the comments?

    Comments can go through a moderation queue before publishing, and repeat offenders can be blocked by rule.

    Can I use my own domain?

    Yes. The publication runs on your own domain and can go live as soon as you build it.

    Will the site show up in search?

    Yes. Essay pages are prerendered for crawlers, and the sitemap is generated automatically.

    Can I move off Kliv later?

    Yes. The source syncs to your own Git repository, and your posts and reader data are exportable.

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    Describe the archive, the free line, the supporter price, email rules, comments, and import needs in as much detail as you like. Kliv builds the blogging platform underneath it.