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Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

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Post by Orva »

mwill wrote: post #15
Orva wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

Yeah, it took quite long to notice that it was kickstarter ad. Although there is something done if you believe actual kickstarter page.

Also, whole point of first paragraph in the site is to promote that app is open source and what benefits it brings to the users. So using open source for marketing and then kind of hiding actual source.. not nice.

Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

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Post by tryjottit »

Hasn't Aaron Swartz's http://www.jottit.com solved this problem for years now?

Go ahead - type in some markdown, then edit the page. You'll be presented with a two-pane view. Your markdown is rendered dynamically. When you're done, just choose the access level for the page (public/private) and you're good to go.

Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

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Post by marshallford »

russelluresti wrote: post #40

I like the idea of an easy-to-use blogging platform, but I'm not completely sold on the use of markdown. I'd rather see another syntax language that allowed me a few more controls, like the ability to add classes to elements in case I wanted to switch up styles a bit (maybe I don't want all blockquotes to look the same, or all lists, etc).

I agree. While I think markdown is really neat, but I hate having to mess with paragraph tags when using css classes.

Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

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Post by addandsubtract »

niggler wrote: post #34
tommoor wrote: post #17

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

That would require the person doing the kickstarter to commit time to the project. I get the impression from most of these software-development kickstarters that the goal is to get payment in advance of the dev work.

Isn't that what raising VC money is all about? What's wrong with raising money for something you're going to spend several months on?

Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

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Post by niggler »

addandsubtract wrote: post #44
niggler wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would require the person doing the kickstarter to commit time to the project. I get the impression from most of these software-development kickstarters that the goal is to get payment in advance of the dev work.

Isn't that what raising VC money is all about? What's wrong with raising money for something you're going to spend several months on?

It goes against the original spirit of kickstarter.

Although it was targeted towards hardware products, I think similar guidelines should be in place for software: http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-not-a-store

"Product simulations are prohibited. Projects cannot simulate events to demonstrate what a product might do in the future. Products can only be shown performing actions that they’re able to perform in their current state of development."

And this makes sense in light of true software development: 10% of the time is spent building the rough prototype and 90% of the time is spent refining. And oftentimes the development money is useful for the tedium like tests and validation,.

Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform

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Post by cmwelsh »

tryjottit wrote: post #42

Hasn't Aaron Swartz's http://www.jottit.com solved this problem for years now? Go ahead - type in some markdown, then edit the page. You'll be presented with a two-pane view. Your markdown is rendered dynamically. When you're done, just choose the access level for the page (public/private) and you're good to go.

The SSL certificate on that website is broken. It's unusable in Chrome.
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