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Re: Ghost 3.0

#91

Post by bbx »

I've never tried Ghost, although their website always appealed to me (one of the best designed website I know). I've been using WordPress for the past 13 years, for personal and also professional projects, which means the familiarity I've built with building custom themes never drew me towards trying another CMS.

But going through this blog post announcement, I saw that Ghost can be used as a headless CMS with frontend frameworks. And since I started using GatsbyJS extensively in the past year, it seems like something that would work _really_ well together.

(It turns out that the official website is actually built with GatsbyJS, so the integration is probably really robust.)

Gonna try it out! And congrats on remaining true to your initial philosophy.

Re: Ghost 3.0

#92

Post by LaundroMat »

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?

Re: Ghost 3.0

#94

Post by tjbiddle »

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.

Re: Ghost 3.0

#95

Post by mkr-hn »

bovermyer wrote: post #28
saassucks wrote: post #14

Another piece of software to nickel-and-dime you. Yay!

This account is suspicious. It appears to have been created solely to denigrate Ghost.

Give the name, I would say they're warming up on Ghost before they take on all of SaaS. Little do they know this kind of thing never lasts.

Re: Ghost 3.0

#96

Post by pseingatl »

omarhaneef wrote: post #37
nickjj wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's still very confusing. Surplus sounds like anything beyond hosting costs to run the service, but the hosting costs is likely no where near 5 million dollars so a majority of it is surplus. Does that mean no one gets a salary or is a salary part of the costs to run the business instead of being a "member"? If salaries are included who dictates what the income tax exempt salary is? I'm not trolling either. What y…

Non-profits can draw large salaries: https://www.erieri.com/blog/post/top-10-highest-paid-ceos-at... These are all medical, so that is the right comparison, but charities can also have high salaries: https://www.charitywatch.org/top-charity-salaries And, I am not taking a position here, but if you feel strongly that this should not be the case, there is this video for the counter-argument: https://www.ted.com/talks/d…

Such as the Susan Kamen Foundation. Huge salaries, no funding of research, events to promote "awareness." A scam.

Re: Ghost 3.0

#97

Post by brianpgordon »

> The hard part is the publishing platform to integrate with the subscriptions and the billing - that's the part nobody else is doing - and we were getting pretty good at building a flexible, modern publishing platform.

Doesn't Medium sort of do this? I get that you can't run your own instance or bill specifically for just your content, but otherwise it seems very similar.

Re: Ghost 3.0

#98

Post by emdowling »

brianpgordon wrote: post #97

> The hard part is the publishing platform to integrate with the subscriptions and the billing - that's the part nobody else is doing - and we were getting pretty good at building a flexible, modern publishing platform. Doesn't Medium sort of do this? I get that you can't run your own instance or bill specifically for just your content, but otherwise it seems very similar.

The two caveats/differences you mentioned are the biggest complaints against Medium. Medium is a fantastic platform for finding an audience when you don’t have one already. It’s an awesome way to just write and get your work out there.

As the post mentions, Ghost 3.0 is targeted at people like Ben Thompson (in the extreme case) who have an audience passionate/supportive/large enough to pay them directly and who want to own the entire relationship with no middleman.

Re: Ghost 3.0

#99

Post by tylermenezes »

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.

Re: Ghost 3.0

#100

Post by antigirl »

I was the initial backer for Ghost when it was first on kickstarter, i was very excited about the prospect. But after it release i felt quite cheated. The progress was insanely slow, there were a discussion about responsive images on their github which lasted probably months before anything was done about it. It was very limiting still months after its initial release. Naturally i lost interest.
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