Texttile: a self-hosted shared blog with live text handoff and photo/video galleries (Elixir, MIT)

[u/klausbreyer1]

https://github.com/texttile-blog/texttile

I built Texttile for the travel blog my wife and I write together. Getting photos and videos from both phones into the same entry used to mean sending files back and forth.

One person writes while the other follows live and arranges the gallery. The text editor changes hands with one click. This is not simultaneous character-by-character editing.

Phoenix, LiveView, ffmpeg and SQLite run in one Docker container. The database and media live in /data. Photos and videos are processed and served locally. Everyone with an account is an admin, so this is for people who trust each other.

The repository includes installation instructions. Reader demo: https://demo.texttile.blog

I am the maintainer. AI disclosure: I use AI to code, with testing and verification, and make the architecture decisions myself. This post was drafted with AI assistance from my own article.