Pen to Kami

A blog of your own — finally easy to keep.

It's as simple as it sounds. Sign up, name your blog, start writing — that's the whole setup. Drafts save themselves as you type, themes apply with a click, and everything you'd normally bolt on yourself — RSS, SEO, full-text search, SSL, your own domain — is included from day one.

Why this exists

A blog is one person’s space — what they noticed this week, the photo from yesterday, the recipe their grandmother taught them. That’s rare on the web now. Pen to Kami exists to make keeping one as easy as writing an email.

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Privacy

No trackers. No ads. No third‑party scripts.

Not Google Analytics. Not Facebook Pixel. Not Hotjar, not Intercom, not any of the quiet passengers that ride along with most blogs. Your readers load your words, your images, your domain — and nothing else.

SSL on every blog by default. 2FA from day one. A reasonable password and the whole thing is locked down tight.

network
Browser network panel showing only first-party requests

Collections

Dedicated pages for the things you love.

Photo albumsRecipe collectionsBookshelvesGuestbooksNow pages

Structure

Shape your blog however you want.

A CV that doubles as a portfolio pageLinks pagesPrivate, password-protected sectionsPick your own homepagePlain text pages too

Writing

Where the work happens.

A rich text editor that gets out of your wayDrafts auto-save. Publish when you're ready.Drop in a dozen photos at onceTags, navigation, and full-text search

Make it yours

Themes and the small details.

Eighty themes, live-previewedCustomize with a live preview beside youSet the reading defaults your readers seeA logo for light mode, a logo for dark

Set it up

Domain, navigation, more than one blog.

Your own domain, or a free pentokami.com subdomainPin your important tags to the topRun more than one blog from a single account

Reach

Wired into the rest of the web.

SEO out of the boxFeeds for humans first — RSS, Atom, JSON, OPMLYour whole blog, one zip awayWired in for the LLM crawlers, tooAn API. Read posts, write posts, automate.

Imports

Bring your old blog with you.

WordPressSubstackGhostMediumBulk MarkdownMade a mess? Roll it back.

Housekeeping

The boring parts, handled.

Fully maintained — zero upkeepPages load in under a second

Who runs it

Built to keep running.

Most things you sign up for are running on someone else’s clock. There’s money that needs to grow. There’s a board to please. Eventually that math takes a small, useful tool and turns it into something you’d rather not be using.

Pen to Kami isn’t built that way. It’s a one-person company with no outside investors and no plans to take any. It pays for itself, from the people who use it. That’s the whole business. There’s nothing it needs to become.

A small one-person study at morning: a wooden desk facing a window that looks out on a quiet street, a wood stove in the corner, a coat on a hook by the door, shelves with books and plants, soft warm light across the floorboards.
The plan is to keep doing this.

Pen to Kami is for people who'd rather be reading or writing than tinkering with software. If you'd like to follow along as I build it, follow my blog. If you'd like to say hello, email me.