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> But it's not actually any different than if they had powered Substack with SQLite or Postgres. I disagree. It's more comprable to if they used WordPress inst
by shafyy 4y ago
> But it's not actually any different than if they had powered Substack with SQLite or Postgres.
I disagree. It's more comprable to if they used WordPress instead of Ghost. The database is a few layers further down, whereas Ghost is basically 90% of the end product (not sure how much they've adapted, but looks like a lot from John's Tweet)
- staunch 4y agoWell, it's a bit more complicated than that. Substack is positioning themselves to their customers, which are journalists/authors, as a comprehensive alternative to having a normal job working at a newspaper or magazine. That seems to include high-touch customer support, an integrated business model with payments, a mailing list system, a distribution method, etc. It's more of a service than a piece of software. Ghost actually seems to have jumped on Substack's bandwagon by trying to skew their blog software toward being a direct Substack alternative. So Ghost seems to have adopted Substack's business model and Substack seems to have adopted some of their blog technology.