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If you already have a server, it's essentially free.
Most of the people who are interested in WordPress or Ghost don't already have a server. This is the classic HN Dropbox reaction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 > you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem
(I was thinking about businesses, who usually have at least one server, somewhere.)
Looks interesting, but the website doesn't give nearly enough information for me to even consider signing up. What are the themes? What are the custom optimisation options? Can I tweak the CSS? What sites are already using it? Can I see examples? What content modelling options are there? Is there a free trial? Am I locked in? Can I export my data? Etc.
Given the amount of customer service per user, feature support, technical support and dev-ops that will be required to run this, I doubt there is any way this business could be sustainable at $29/year/user. Not to mention how you’d actually need to grow via marketing. 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 s…
And especially considering he runs 4 other services
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most of the people who are interested in WordPress or Ghost don't already have a server. This is the classic HN Dropbox reaction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 > you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem
I wouldn't say it is quite that extreme. Though you do make a fair point. (I was thinking about businesses, who usually have at least one server, somewhere.)
Given the amount of customer service per user, feature support, technical support and dev-ops that will be required to run this, I doubt there is any way this business could be sustainable at $29/year/user. Not to mention how you’d actually need to grow via marketing. 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 s…
Wordpress is free, and you can pick up a VPS these days for $1/mo. You can't just be another solution, you have to be really, really, really good. You have to deliver something that is head and shoulders above the competition. 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 N…
Don't play this game. "X USD per month, billed annually" is 12X USD per year, not "X USD per month".
Wordpress.org is free.
WordPress.org doesn't offer hosting, and once you install it on a $5/mo VPS you're way past $29/yr.
That's what they are competing against.
Given the amount of customer service per user, feature support, technical support and dev-ops that will be required to run this, I doubt there is any way this business could be sustainable at $29/year/user. Not to mention how you’d actually need to grow via marketing. 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 s…