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by sudhirj 6y ago
Apple probably doesn’t care, but this is necessary to change the press landscape. Right now the narrative is Apple is doing things to hurt Facebook - a million people signing this will change that narrative.
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by sudhirj 6y ago
Stolen cards have long since been solved in many parts of the world with 3DS. Not sure why the US is still lagging behind on this.
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by sudhirj 6y ago
Yeah. I’ve figured out a way to offer $5 a month, so will put that on community support, and change the business plan with human support to more than $25 if there’s a crowd.
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by sudhirj 6y ago
Thanks for the thinking points. The ones I have actually thought about so far are * bandwidth (BunnyCDN is the best I've found, and they and AWS do private pricing after hitting an aggregate of a couple petabytes a month). Offering yea
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by sudhirj 6y ago
All of the points are true, but to paint them negatively contradicts YC Startup School advice. This is a minimum usable product that does things that don't scale. If you email me, you'll get a Ghost install you can log in to and a
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by sudhirj 6y ago
And this is just common sense, I guess? If I wind up hurting the project that would be killing the goose that's laying the golden egg. I'm trying to make good software accessible to people who couldn't use it otherwise. The F
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by sudhirj 6y ago
As soon as I get ramen profitable, yes, I'd like to. Will make a public commitment once I have enough customers to cover rent. If I cross $250K a month I think I can commit to something like 15% voluntary royalties. And I'm happy
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by sudhirj 6y ago
Replying the nested comment, my current approach is to put multiple Ghost installations on one big AWS server. Each Ghost installation has its own codebase and database, so they're very independent of each other, with upgrades and migr
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by sudhirj 6y ago
I like the Ghosting = Ghost Hosting play, and this isn't customer facing either way. You'll still put yourdomain.com over it. Doesn't seem oppressive or insulting to anyone, and I'm happy that you're more likely to
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by sudhirj 6y ago
There it's $36 per month, same features, and limited to 2 writers / 1000 members. I'm offering to remove the limit on writers and members, cost is lower, but still secondary.
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by sudhirj 6y ago
The individual plans are going to be $5 / month, so yeah, I actually hope so.
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by sudhirj 6y ago
Ghost is a NodeJS app, and doesn't automatically do static site generating, but there's first class support for using other static site generators via the CMS API. That would be entirely up to the users, once you take over the ins
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by sudhirj 6y ago
That's right. The server will be multi-tenant by default, unless you're a celebrity of some sort. Ghost is super fast, and under load you're mostly stressing nginx. I start with the bigger instances on AWS, and I've load
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by sudhirj 6y ago
My perspective on this is a little different — $25 is low-end for the people who currently pay for Ghost, but my environment (India) lower rung than that. So I'm not actually targeting the bottom of the developed world, I'm target
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by sudhirj 6y ago
Yeah, there's it's not world changing or anything. The problem I want to solve is that the Ghost(Pro) offering gets expensive really quickly - I want to give small teams and small businesses all over the world a way to start a sma
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by sudhirj 6y ago
> Personally, I'd still want to take over if needed There's obviously no way you're getting access to the servers, but Ghost has a fully import / export option already built in. I can also zip up your images / th
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by sudhirj 6y ago
Thanks for all the feedback so far. For context, I'm looking at this plan ($25/month) as a business plan, so non-technical businesses can get a blog / site / newsletter out at an affordable price. Once I build the dashbo
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by sudhirj 6y ago
And re the contact email domain, thanks for the feedback, will fix that soon. I'm planning to do some stuff with DNS to support silent CDN switching between providers, so I don't want to put my MX records on it yet. Might have to
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by sudhirj 6y ago
I think parent meant it's too cheap? I have a license for Excel, so I can confidently say that the margins work for me, for my expenses and lifestyle. Assuming I hit at least 100 customers, of course. At 500 or 1000 customers I'd
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by sudhirj 6y ago
Thanks, I've removed the "unlimited visitors" part, that does seem misleading. The competition restricts that and I don't want to — if the blog owners keep their JS/CSS/Images small they can go well past millio
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by sudhirj 6y ago
Sorry, I just have a really bad sense of humour. When I decided to do Ghost Hosting, Ghosting was the best name I could think of that had a decent domain available. Think ShellRack was the other option, think .com was available. Ghost In Th
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by sudhirj 6y ago
Thanks, will change to something like that. Will bump it up to 1TB a month as well.
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by sudhirj 6y ago
It's more a WPEngine inspired service. I can maintain margins of 80% counting only CoGS, not my time. So with about 350 customers I can live like a king (third world country), send kid to the best private school and do holidays in Lond
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by sudhirj 6y ago
Yup. I'm offering sysadmin / ops / IT management services. If a business already has ops/devops folks they can use the Bitnami image or the Digital Ocean official image for $5 a month. Here I provide free bits of consult
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by sudhirj 6y ago
Right. The unconstrained mostly refers to the visits / members / staff accounts, which is what most providers place massive limitations on. What would be a good word to convey that there are no artificial constraints, and that the
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Show HN: Unconstrained Ghost Hosting For $25/month(ghosting.dev)
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by sudhirj 6y ago
Is there a similar test psychiatrists or therapists use to understand their patients? Seems like the answer would reveal a lot about the person giving it.
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by sudhirj 6y ago
The managed cloud feature is great, so if there's a comparison happening it'll be much more valid if you do a like-to-like one. I'd be more interested to see that the numbers (performance and cost would be) if you ran the com
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by sudhirj 6y ago
This is usually governed by country specific financial laws.
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by sudhirj 6y ago
This reads like a Postgres vs DynamoDB comparison, because that’s likely what it is. The article makes a lot of points really well, and if I had 8 highly qualified people who had nothing else to do on my team working for free (or on salarie

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