Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform • Hacker News Board

jmduke wrote: post #2

The domain 'tryghost' is something of a misnomer: this is a Kickstarter project. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-...

The Kickstarter link's the one they've been sharing, I just saw this and thought it had a good rundown of features

Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

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Post by mwill » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 12:47 PM UTC

Orva wrote: post #7

EwanToo wrote: post #6

I think it's rather sad when a project says they're open source, then says things like : "You'll need hosting for your blog no matter what, but our service will be the most powerful way of running Ghost - and the easiest to get started with. You'll have the full Ghost software with all bells, whistles, themes, plugins, and some extras that are only available with us (like automatic updates and backups)." So they won'…

"Ghost is an Open Source application", tiny github image link in footer and organization has no public repositories.. ( https://github.com/tryghost )

No repo's because it's not released yet, it's a kickstarter.

re: tiny github image link, the video does specifically mention it's a project targeted at users, not developers, so I guess having things like that as a footnote make sense. Can't comment on how this strategy will work out, guess we'll see.

Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

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Post by sergiotapia » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 12:49 PM UTC

This project doesn't exist. It's just a bait for the kickstarter page. Kind of bummed out, the features looked nice and I wanted to try it out.

Perhaps a mod can change the title to 'Kickstarter: Ghost - Just a Blogging Platform'.

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Post by tommoor » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 12:50 PM UTC

I would be much more willing to pledge towards this if the current state of their code was available to see / install.

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Post by joemaller1 » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 12:56 PM UTC

I'm looking for something like this, but there is no this here. "Try it" should go to Github, not Kickstarter.

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Post by maxaf » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 1:03 PM UTC

Would it be possible to see the rest of that chest tattoo? I'm dying to know.

- impatient in Manhattan

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Post by bricestacey » Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 1:04 PM UTC

Button at bottom opens a modal that I can't scroll on an iPhone 5.