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Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by Teichopsia »

disordinary wrote: post #90
Teichopsia wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but when? Stripe has been saying the same thing. They will support more countries, and yet, three years later they have yet to support many countries. Don't get me wrong, I understand that a country can not be supported magically. What I'm against are these comments that are written with (what I believe to be) the best intentions. But then it's posted, and the person who read it, years later is left with a bad t…

It's open source, there's nothing stopping you from integrating it with the payment platform of your choice and contributing the code back to the project.

It is! Oops... I just became that guy :P

But in my defense, it was a general sentiment and not directed to any - one - individual - or company.

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by michaelbrooks »

LaundroMat wrote: post #92
johnonolan wrote: post #3

Hi HN, John from Ghost here. Thanks for the comments about 3.0 — we spent a lot of late nights on this, and it's a pretty big upgrade for Ghost as a platform (which is now 6 years old). I know the audience here is generally more interested in technical details and reasons for why this took longer than 1 weekend to build. So I'll share a few more relevant details absent from the marketing copy: - The new membership sy…

Re: the membership system. How do members authenticate without a password? Is it done by emailing a magic link?

That's exactly how it's done. :)

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by johnonolan »

tjbiddle wrote: post #94

Congrats! Slightly off-topic question: Is a handful of the Ghost team based in Bali? I know the team is 100% remote and I've noticed multiple laptops with Ghost stickers at my co-working center.

Not permanently, but there were quite a few of us in Bali this year (I think 7 at one point) working from Tropical Nomad. Now we've all moved on again!

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by johnonolan »

artpi wrote: post #104

Fantastic work John! The membership feature looks amazing and I honestly am very impressed by your landing page since I work on something a bit similar :). The Stripe Billing integration sounds exciting, but I am curious about the 0% transaction fees. Stripe usually takes 2.9%+30c on charges and Stripe Billing costs 0.4$ (free for the first $1M so we can ignore that). Did you negotiate some kind of a special deal wit…

You connect your own Stripe account - so whatever fees are there are specific to your setup. They vary widely based on your country, the customer's country, currency and volume. The main difference with Ghost is that there are no additional platform transaction fees - which there usually are with every other product in this space (generally another +5% - +10%. Hope that helps to clarify!

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by setr »

sdan wrote: post #80
tyre wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like a good business opportunity if someone's looking for it. call it gHosting

Sounds like an interesting idea... selling software under the MIT license which the software holder is maintaining... Looks like I have a weekend project now!

This complaint has never made sense to me; you're selling software/hardware management, not the software itself.

And this is precisely the pain point of the gp... This isn't just reasonable, it's utterly sensible.

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by mkr-hn »

setr wrote: post #115
sdan wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like an interesting idea... selling software under the MIT license which the software holder is maintaining... Looks like I have a weekend project now!

This complaint has never made sense to me; you're selling software/hardware management, not the software itself. And this is precisely the pain point of the gp... This isn't just reasonable, it's utterly sensible.

Yep. I don't mind Ghost or Automattic charging so much for managed hosting. That also pays for development. I don't want to assume other managed hosts charging more for WordPress without doing anything more is just greed, but it has the look.

That's why I want Ghost to offer a lower tier. That way I could get started at a price I can afford where I'm at, support the development of Ghost, and have an easy upgrade path if I need it. It's the curve, not the price, that I don't like.

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by elicash »

tylermenezes wrote: post #99

The most shocking thing about this post, to me, is that they've only made $5M revenue in 6 years. After expenses, that's got to be a really small profit.

Is this low for open source projects? I mean, I'd imagine it's low compared to WordPress.org -- but compared to other projects of its size this doesn't seem low to me.

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by alexmingoia »

eugenekolo wrote: post #49

Ghost is okay. My blog runs Ghost. I've been using Ghost from about when it was first released, v.09 or something. I am now planning on moving towards something more static and simpler. Ghost started as a simpler alternative to WordPress, but slightly more powerful than Hugo/Jekyll/etc. It now seems to just be a WordPress clone written in JS instead of PHP. It's still fine and works well... but, I can't see a reason…

If you’re looking for a simpler alternative to Ghost for personal blogging, without the hassle of self-hosting, check out https://etch.blog - it’s bootstrapped, simple, affordable, and free of nonsense.

Re: Ghost 3.0

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Post by ric2b »

Teichopsia wrote: post #71
johnonolan wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a first version. We're certainly planning to add more payment options, including decentralised ones

Yes, but when? Stripe has been saying the same thing. They will support more countries, and yet, three years later they have yet to support many countries. Don't get me wrong, I understand that a country can not be supported magically. What I'm against are these comments that are written with (what I believe to be) the best intentions. But then it's posted, and the person who read it, years later is left with a bad t…

It's not the same level of difficulty. Stripe being in more countries means more legal issues to deal with.

Ghost integrating with other processors is "just" a code change.

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