Luminary

Luminary publishes in-depth tutorials, analysis and practical guides on artificial intelligence, web development and emerging technology. Rather than a hosted blogging tool, it runs on a publishing platform we built — so writing, editing, scheduling, newsletters and revenue are all in one place.

An independent publication needs the tools of a newsroom without a newsroom’s budget: a comfortable editor, a review and scheduling workflow, an audience it owns through email, a way to earn from its content, and safeguards against publishing unoriginal work.

Own the whole stack. The platform covers the full life of an article — draft, review, schedule, publish, distribute and measure — and is built for search and AI answer engines from day one, with structured data, an RSS feed and an llms.txt summary.

Readers get fast, distraction-free articles with categories, author pages, search and a newsletter. Contributors can apply through a “write for us” flow. A clear cookie-consent choice is remembered across visits.

A dark, editorial interface with a single violet accent, strong headline typography and article layouts tuned for long-form reading on any screen.

Next.js with Neon Postgres through Drizzle ORM and Auth.js for accounts. The admin covers posts, categories, comments, media, subscribers, users, analytics, newsletters and monetisation settings. A Tiptap-based editor handles rich content, scheduled posts are published by a daily cron job, Resend sends newsletters, and a Gemini-powered checker helps editors review originality before publishing.

Semantic article structure, readable line lengths and contrast, keyboard-operable navigation and descriptive links throughout the reading experience.