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by mkr-hn 2431 days ago
The subscription system, as I mentioned upthread. Making a blog is easy. Making a blog with pay gated access to posts and downloads is not. The closest equivalent is Patreon + WordPress with the Patreon plugin. I already mentioned the issue with self-hosted WordPress. Managed solutions cost more than Ghost and provide less.
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tyre 2431 days ago
Sounds like a good business opportunity if someone's looking for it.

call it gHosting

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sdan 2431 days ago
Sounds like an interesting idea... selling software under the MIT license which the software holder is maintaining...

Looks like I have a weekend project now!

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setr 2429 days ago
This complaint has never made sense to me; you're selling software/hardware management, not the software itself.

And this is precisely the pain point of the gp... This isn't just reasonable, it's utterly sensible.

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mkr-hn 2429 days ago
Yep. I don't mind Ghost or Automattic charging so much for managed hosting. That also pays for development. I don't want to assume other managed hosts charging more for WordPress without doing anything more is just greed, but it has the look.

That's why I want Ghost to offer a lower tier. That way I could get started at a price I can afford where I'm at, support the development of Ghost, and have an easy upgrade path if I need it. It's the curve, not the price, that I don't like.

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