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Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

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Post by johnonolan »

I apologise for the confusion guys, this site wasn't really intended with you in mind as the target audience. I believe there was another direct link to the Kickstarter campaign which would have been more appropriate for HN. The marketing site is simply a "pretty thing" to attract some interest from consumers / casual users. Not intended as full demonstration or marketed at developers. I'll post myself when there's something you guys will actually be interested in (aka a GitHub link with a public repo in it).

And yes "impatient in Manhatten" - that can be arranged, bro.

Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

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Post by filmgirlcw »

I really, really like this. The decision to use Kickstarter might upset some, but I think it's a pragmatic way of ensuring that talent can focus on it to actually deliver a project to users.

Still, I really hope to see a lot of activity pop-up on GitHub. Community is a bug reason WordPress won over everyone else and while I'm a big fan of opinionated software leadership, I also hope to see more people bring their ideas to the table.

This is a niche for sure, but a niche I happily backed, in part because this looks like something I would really like to use.

The decision to use Node is interesting. Another reason WordPress was so successful is because basically anyone with shared hosting could install it without having to use anything more than an FTP client (and now basically every host has a 1-click install). I'm curious as to the impact this might have on adoption beyond the hosted platform for its targeted user base.

Regardless, I backed and I hope to see this sort of thing succeed, if only because we need more stuff like this in the wild.

Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

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Post by zimbatm »

It looks good and the execution seems to be well done. What I would really like to see a blogging platform that has a different take on article creation than textarea + publishing.

Blog publishing is also about research, collecting the content and iterating on the article's content until one feels satisfied with the result.

Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

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Post by mwill »

(I hope this doesn't sound like I'm being negative, I'm just thinking out loud)

The video specifically mentions being targeted at users, not developers and taking a look at the kickstarter page, this feels less like an open source project and more like a startup that plans to open source it's core software.

There's certainly a focus on selling it as a complete, ready to go package, tightly wrapped and best served with their hosting service, with the people living inside the ecosystem (Users, themers, etc) being the first class citizen here. It almost feels closer to Tumblr (minus social) than Wordpress.

Even the "How does it work?" section seems to be written for someone who will build themes and plugins, specifically mentioning what the MIT licence means for theme developers.

I'm really interested to see how this plays out, and if successful what the community will look like. It feels like a pretty unique setup. Or maybe I'm reading into it too much. : )

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