OVERVIEW
Summary
Kolkata — Blogzilla is a full-stack blogging platform that feels like Notion and writes like a co-author — a rich editor with slash commands, AI generation on tap, and a typed Postgres backend.
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Why I built it
Most blogging platforms make you choose between a nice editor and a real backend. I wanted both: a delightful authoring surface on top of infrastructure that behaves in production.
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What it does
A Novel-powered rich text editor with Notion-style slash commands, AI content generation wired through the Vercel AI SDK and OpenAI, authentication via Better Auth, and image uploads through UploadThing.
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Under the hood
Drizzle over PostgreSQL gives a typed, migration-friendly data layer.
The AI features are additive — they assist the writer without hijacking the draft — and the editor stays fast because the heavy lifting is scoped to explicit commands.
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The outcome
A platform that gets both halves right: a writing experience people actually enjoy, and a durable, typed backend underneath it.