I Built a Free Open-Source Blog Platform with Flask and TiDB

The Problem I wanted a blog platform that was: Free to host (no monthly bills) Lightweight (not a 500MB WordPress install) Open source (full control over my content) Modern (Markdown editor, dark mode, i18n) Everything I found was either too heavy, too expensive, or too restrictive. So I built OpenBlog . What is OpenBlog? OpenBlog is a fully open-source blogging platform built with Python/Flask and TiDB (MySQL-compatible serverless database). Deploy it on Hugging Face Spaces for free — zero cost