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Re: Show HN: WordPress, Ghost alternative at $29/Year

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Post by isandeep1995 »

mattkevan wrote: post #13

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.

Yeah the landing page is pretty poor at this moment, I did not work on the landing page yet. There are currently two different themes. Example blog can be seen here https://nanodevpro.com/blog

$29 is charged to attach to custom domain or /blog

Re: Show HN: WordPress, Ghost alternative at $29/Year

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Post by isandeep1995 »

thih9 wrote: post #21

> Send Newsletters > 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?

For now, A post is sent as all the subscriber to your blog. More custom feature like subscriber analytics, article only post, newsletter only post and article + newsletter post would be implemented this August.

Re: Show HN: WordPress, Ghost alternative at $29/Year

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Post by isandeep1995 »

ecmascript wrote: post #22

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?

https://esyblog.com comes with built in WYSWYG editor. Content stays in esyblog.com's server. Please watch the landing page video. You would understand.

I have disabled Google Docs import feature for now because of low interest. If you want I can enable that again.

Re: Show HN: WordPress, Ghost alternative at $29/Year

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Post by isandeep1995 »

KomoD wrote: post #34
peter422 wrote: post #26

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…

> I doubt there is any way this business could be sustainable at $29/year/user And especially considering he runs 4 other services

Yeah I am doing fine.

Re: Show HN: WordPress, Ghost alternative at $29/Year

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Post by withinboredom »

isandeep1995 wrote: post #46
withinboredom wrote: post #30

Needs locale-specific pricing. The way the dollar has been fluctuating recently $29 could be 40-local or 20-local next month.

Very hard to implement that as a single person company.

How so? Have a drop down to select currency, collect in that currency.

Re: Show HN: WordPress, Ghost alternative at $29/Year

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Post by isandeep1995 »

KomoD wrote: post #33
mattkevan wrote: post #13

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.

Yeah there's not nearly enough information for me to consider signing up, not even the privacy policy link in the footer works.

Sorry for that. I will improve the landing page. Will add more examples and videos to it.
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