I spent a lot of the pandemic procrastinating by trying to build my own blogging software, a more efficient version of Ghost, but it’s too much duplicated effort given what I learned at AWS reinvent. So I decided to just set up and start publishing.
I write for about two hours a day, maybe four days or writing and two of editing for each article. I’d like to publish once a week, but don’t want to set that kind of goal because then I’ll write even if I have nothing interesting to say. But maybe that’s the best process anyway?
Will tell you what’s working if you ask again in a couple of months :-/
I’m trying to make a Ghost hosting service that’s free / $5 a month for personal use. I’ve figured out a way to make the economics work with the existing 500MB disk + 1GB RAM requirements, but it would have been a lot easier with Go and Dynamo.
Thanks a ton to you and the team for the work you’re doing. I think you’re making a fantastic system, and want to make it available to more people as a personal blogging platform. I just wish it could run multi tenant or with lower memory needs.
I don’t suppose making it easier for others to compete with the official Ghost revenue model is a priority, so I doubt this is anything you’ll want to take up. But I’m happy to share revenues on this - I just think Ghost should be a lot more accessible to individuals around the world.
A lot of blogging platforms (including Ghost) start out at $5/mo targeting personal use -- but the ones that survive never stay there. Probably some worthwhile takeaways from that :)
And yeah, don’t think the $5 / month is sustainable for a company, but for a solo founder it might work. Of course, that might be a classic case of this time it’s different.