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

#51

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Very hard to implement that as a single person company.

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

On Stripe, I need to create all possible currencies then ?

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

#52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

On Stripe, I need to create all possible currencies then ?

Probably just the popular English speaking ones, GBP, EUR, AUD, CAD.

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

#55
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> 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?

if you are looking for a newsletter tool, check out https://recur.email

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

#56

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…

Carrd is doing fine at $19/year pricing. I am trying to play the same game here.

"link in bio" is pretty different from "wordpress & ghost alternative".

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

#57

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…

Carrd is doing fine at $19/year pricing. I am trying to play the same game here.

The fact that any business is sustainable at this price point is not a relevant point, it might have been a bad choice for them too. What you are offering is also a lot more complicated.

Not to mention it’s in the vertical of blogging which has been around for 20 years, in which your offering is very similar to every other alternative, and there are many well known free alternatives.

If you have the technical skill to make a service this complicated, make something that people value more than $2 a month, and make something that hasn’t been made 100 times before. Execution is more important than idea only if the idea isn’t terrible.

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

#58

I just finished migrating https://nostashapp.com Into a serverless stack. Literally I close the laptop 30 minutes ago. So something can still be a bit wrong. Nostash cover a tiny market of note taking. I wanted a space over the internet where I could write documents and have them available to anybody to read. You can create documents, make them public, make them back private and just share the URL. The stack is AWS L…

> Into a serverless stack. But why? Cost?

Yes exactly.

It serves very very few request daily, make no sense to have a full fledged server running it

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