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And, four years later, they still have not fulfilled their kickstarter promise of the Ghost Dashboard. This was the most requested feature on their public trell
by tbenst 9y ago
And, four years later, they still have not fulfilled their kickstarter promise of the Ghost Dashboard. This was the most requested feature on their public trello roadmap before the card was deleted one day. Over the years there have been many inconsistent messages around this feature being worked on, then delayed until Apps, then eventually forgotten. Maybe this was the right decision for the company, but certainly a case study in how not to manage public expectations and the danger of public roadmaps (you'll be held accountable by frustrated customers!)
I'm still a paying customer of Ghost Pro but migrating to self-hosted Hakyll static site. Ghost has grown to serve a completely different market than they originally set out to serve.
- jgacook 9y agoI'm curious what Market they set out to serve and what Market they serve now - would you mind elaborating?
- tedmiston 9y agoTheir hosted version starts at $29/mo ($19/mo if you commit to 1 year), so probably not many personal bloggers there.
- educar 9y ago29?? Why is it so expensive?
- fusiongyro 9y agoNormally I would disagree with you, but it's running fine on my $5/month droplet. So... I'm saving $24/month because I know how to type "npm install."
- eridius 9y agoWhat do you mean? I don't see anything on their site about being able to self-host it.
- Qub3d 9y agoI think the parent comment is referring to the open source code which you can self-host for free. You just need to pay for the metal/cloud that runs it. See: https://docs.ghost.org/v0.11.9/docs/getting-started-guide/ https://docs.ghost.org/v0.11.9/docs/getting-started-guide/
- WesleyLivesay 9y agoYou can find out more info about self-hosting and how to install 1.0 in the docs: https://docs.ghost.org/docs/getting-started-guide https://docs.ghost.org/docs/getting-started-guide Digital Ocean also has a droplet with a pre-1.0 version pre-installed and ready to use.
- jermaustin1 9y agoyou manually set it up? its one of the pre-configured images!
- tedmiston 9y agoDO has a preconfigured image but last time I checked it out it was pretty out of date.
- fusiongyro 9y agoHonestly, I didn't know that, but I set it up quite some time ago. And it wasn't that painful. :)
- seanwilson 9y agoHaving automated security updates, backups and support has value though. Every server you have to admin is overhead.
- wlesieutre 9y agoInteresting. I saw Ghost when it was on Kickstarter and my mental model of it was still "That's the blog platform with the nice dashboard." Guess not. I did look at them again (Ghost Pro) last time I thought about setting up a blog, but there was no way to serve static files alongside posts. Anything that's not the text and images has to be hosted separately unless you want to roll your own Ghost server. If I ever get around to making myself a website I'll probably just use Pelican.
- tedmiston 9y agoIt is pretty easy to self-host Ghost though.
- wlesieutre 9y agoAnd it's even easier to not! I'm sure I'm capable of managing a webserver, but it's one more thing to worry about that I'd just as soon skip.
- StavrosK 9y agoI use and can recommend Lektor. Development has stalled a bit, but it's eminently usable and good at what it does.
- tiffanyh 9y agoHere's a screenshot of the Ghost Dashboard [1] from the original Kickstarter campaign. As well as a mock video of the Dashboard [2] [1] https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/011/492/835/b2e56fd9584d152b578f47e05ca2c559_original.jpg?crop=faces&w=1552&h=873&fit=crop&v=1463683527&auto=format&q=92&s=9cc47ab9927a755756942d01518be2d1 https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/011/492/835/b2e56fd9584d152... [2] https://ksr-video.imgix.net/projects/487539/video-234630-h264_high.mp4 https://ksr-video.imgix.net/projects/487539/video-234630-h26...