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Ghost

Score7 out of 10

9 Reviews and Ratings

What is Ghost?

Ghost is a CMS for new-media creators to publish, share, and grow a business around their content. Available open source and free (e.g. for blogging), it can also come with tools for business' content marketing.

Media

the Ghost dashboard
Ghost posts
Ghost member management
Ghost member profile

1 / 4

Ghost, good at what it does

Pros

  • Creating a newsletter for web and email simultaneously
  • Allowing for paid subscriptions
  • Allowing content to be segmented by subscription type

Cons

  • They wysiwig editor is missing critical functions like superscript and subscript
  • The markdown complement has those features but it doesn’t integrate well with the wysiwig editor
  • Footnoting is hard to do

Most Important Features

  • Integrated email service
  • Integrated subscriptions
  • Easy to use content editor

Return on Investment

  • Our business is totally built around this product
  • It has allowed us to easily and quickly scale our free and (soon) our paywalled content

Alternatives Considered

WordPress