I had a medium tech blog for 1 year. I am not a part of a publication (except my own). Because of my writing interests (which are not so popular), I did not have an advantage yet.
It helped me because it was a managed service, and I didn't want to invest resources in my blog.
Next year I will move away my domain to a self-hosted solution (probably with hugo and others).
Medium pros
managed service (hosting and everything)
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My static blog pros:
I can add more technical UI addons
I can have my own theme
I will have better performance (medium is slow, being dynamic)
I will have nice stats too, with Google analytics (which is on medium too)
For the editor (and drafts) you can use grammarly.com or a google document, and then transform it to a markdown and publish it.
When I posted on Medium, I tried to get my articles published with popular publications (Hackernoon, FreeCodeCamp, CodeBurst) which has gotten me quite a lot of eyes on my articles. Medium analytics tells me I average around 800-1000 views a day across all my articles. My intention was to get more people to discover me through Medium so that I could eventually transition to a blog on my own website (similar to what you're planning).
Like you, I'll probably be adding Google Analytics to my personal blog when I get around to building it. However, I find the Medium analytics much nicer to analyze since the analytics data is beautifully presented compared to Google Analytics. I find it difficult to parse the pertinent data that is shown to me in Google Analytics.
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I had a medium tech blog for 1 year. I am not a part of a publication (except my own). Because of my writing interests (which are not so popular), I did not have an advantage yet.
It helped me because it was a managed service, and I didn't want to invest resources in my blog.
Next year I will move away my domain to a self-hosted solution (probably with hugo and others).
Medium pros
My static blog pros:
For the editor (and drafts) you can use grammarly.com or a google document, and then transform it to a markdown and publish it.
When I posted on Medium, I tried to get my articles published with popular publications (Hackernoon, FreeCodeCamp, CodeBurst) which has gotten me quite a lot of eyes on my articles. Medium analytics tells me I average around 800-1000 views a day across all my articles. My intention was to get more people to discover me through Medium so that I could eventually transition to a blog on my own website (similar to what you're planning).
Like you, I'll probably be adding Google Analytics to my personal blog when I get around to building it. However, I find the Medium analytics much nicer to analyze since the analytics data is beautifully presented compared to Google Analytics. I find it difficult to parse the pertinent data that is shown to me in Google Analytics.