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How we Spent the Kickstarter Money, where we are now, and what’s next for Ghost
- wodenokoto 11y agoWow, 10% of funding money towards the domain. Am I being a prude for thinking that's a lot?
- awendt 11y agoGiven that the owner originally wanted $100k, $33k seems like a steal.
- gizzlon 11y agoParaphrasing someone: In business there's no "cheap" or "expensive". It either pays off or it doesn't. Will this domain increase sales enough to make back the 33k? I don't know, but I wouldn't bet on it :)
- awendt 11y agoIn an age where everybody talks about cloud infrastructure, I find it a very interesting decision to spend $30k on servers up front. Apart from reducing operating costs, I never thought about servers as assets. Essentially, using things like AWS for operations makes the money go away as soon as it's spent. That's a very real risk if you're striving for a sustainable business that doesn't run on ads and you don't yet know where this is going.
- gizzlon 11y agoYeah, and I'm not disagreeing with you, cloud can be really expensive. But with cloud they could have started small and cheap, and scaled up when needed.
- gizzlon 11y agoAs a developer, the costs towards developing ghost seems high: 3 employees and $70,907.89 on subcontracting. Is my mindset wrong? I like ghost.org, it's clean and fast. OTOH it's not complicated or revolutionary, is it? I followed ghost for a while and was not impressed by the pace of development. New features took ages. Anyone know why the development is so (seemingly) slow? Bureaucracy? Slow decision making?
- tylerpachal 11y agoCould someone comment on why the monthly hosting is $3,042.68? Is that the cost of running their servers?