# Inspiration to move to Hashnode

I had read many articles on medium.com and dev.to. The articles published on those platforms looked slick. But on Medium, the articles were behind a paywall. So whenever the urge came for me to switch from my old drab Blog on Blogger.com, I resisted the idea and put it off.

As my day job culminates with building websites on a CMS (**C**ontent **M**anagement **S**ystem), I was also tempted to roll out an open-source CMS such as Umbraco and build my own blog on it. It's easy enough. But then I would need to host the CMS and take care of upgrades. So once again, I just continued on Blogger.com.

This was until I came across my former colleague [Thai Tran's Blog](https://thaitran.dev/). I was impressed by what I saw and as I scrolled to the bottom, I came across the Hashnode tagline.

> Powered by Hashnode - a blogging community for software developers.

That sounded perfect. That was way back in June 2022.

Fast forward to 17 September 2022, I had ten days of annual leave booked in and a few tasks on my to-do list. One of which was to consolidate articles across different websites where I had written as a guest, MVP or employee.

I went back to [Thai's Blog](https://thaitran.dev/) and scrolled down to the footer to remind myself what he was using.

I read the [hashnode.com homepage](hashnode.com) and was convinced this was the way to go. Some of the features I really liked were:

- No Ads
- No Paywall
- Map your custom domain
- Free SSL
- Markdown for authoring

What I couldn't find information on was how Hashnode was monetized or its plans for monetisation. I had to dig a bit further to figure this one out. But Hashnode's co-founder [Sandeep Panda](https://hashnode.com/@sandeep) says the following in this [public question to the Hashnode team](https://hashnode.com/post/whats-next-with-hashnode-cjwpbpwzb005thfs14onwae24#:~:text=PRO%20features%20and%20monetization%20plans%3A%20Although%20we%20have%20raised%20sufficient%20funds%20to%20run%20Hashnode%2C%20we%20are%20looking%20to%20introduce%20a%20revenue%20model%20for%20long%20term%20viability.%20We%20have%20a%20few%20ideas%20in%20mind%20and%20I%27ll%20share%20them%20in%20a%20separate%20post.).

> PRO features and monetization plans: Although we have raised sufficient funds to run Hashnode, we are looking to introduce a revenue model for long term viability. We have a few ideas in mind and I'll share them in a separate post.

So I signed up for an account and started to migrate my old blog posts from Google Blogger to Hashnode. While doing that, I thought it would be good to document my journey to inspire others as as I was inspired by Thai.