Ghost

Score6.6 out of 10

11 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.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

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Screenshot of the Ghost dashboard

Mike Blumenthal

Co-founder at NearMemo (1-10 employees employees)

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