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> Keep your readers engaged with our newsletter feature.
Can you elaborate on the newsletter feature? Can I e.g. prepare custom content and send any number of emails at any time? Or is this more like an automatic notification after a new post is published?
Just a few questions that the website really doesn't answer:
1. How do I write posts? Is it in markdown?
2. Can I export my data if I want to move to another platform in the future?
3. Where is it hosted?
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You can do the same with Ghost—pack up and take your Ghost content and data to any host (using the ghost-cli) but it’s not easy to do seamlessly. I’m hoping to automate Ghost blog migration but I’m not done yet [1]. Hopefully I’ll find time in August to finish it up, God willing. 1: https://github.com/ayewo/ghost.sh/
Ah fantastic to hear about Ghost picking up these features! Having options is always good :)
They’ve definitely put a lot of thought into the CLI.
For instance, you can stand up a new Ghost blog completely unattended and I figured out how to set a reasonably long admin password using curl rather than leave the admin setup page at domain.com/ghost exposed on the Internet where anyone can easily takeover the blog if they land on that page before you. The risk of it happening is quite low, but it’s still a risk I’m not comfortable with.
Also, the export-import flow using the CLI works pretty well but there are some manual steps involved which I’m working to automate when migrating between hosts.
I’m willing to bet they already have tools for doing what I plan to do with ghost.sh in-house.
Too bad Ghost’s focus is on driving people to sign up for their DFY (Done For You) paid service that is Ghost(Pro).
Man people here are really entitled and mean. I am interested since I am considering rolling my own but this cheap price could be worth it for me. Just a few questions that the website really doesn't answer: 1. How do I write posts? Is it in markdown? 2. Can I export my data if I want to move to another platform in the future? 3. Where is it hosted?
Meta observation: the initial comments on most articles are often low quality, and it seems to be especially true of Show HNs. It takes time to look at a submission in enough detail to comment on it constructively, which means that the thoughtful comments will invariably come in a few minutes after the shallow dismissals.
If I were you I would stop on this idea immediately and come up with somewhere where the average user would expect to pay $50-$1000 per month for the service. I don’t think this is a good vertical to get into. Your competition are both better than you at the bottom of the market (free alternatives) and the top of the market and there is very little left for you. And even if you do get tens or hundreds of users, it will be just as unsustainable and you’ll also have the guilt when you decide to shut it down and kick all your users off.
You have a few features here, but everything you show in the demo is just table stakes.
1 GB KVM VPS
1x vCPU Core
14 GB PURE SSD RAID-10 Storage
1 GB RAM
2000GB Monthly Bandwidth
1Gbps Public Network Port
Full Root Admin Access
1 Dedicated IPv4 Address
KVM / SolusVM Control Panel
Available in Multiple Locations
$11.38/yr
> Create your blog $29/year
Is it free or is it $29/yr