This was one of the first fully remote companies I applied for. I applied via workable on 2016-11-29 as a node.js developer. I think my application was immediately rejected (don't know why). I got a bit pissed and started to write a competitor app.
I gave up on that with the ringing sound in my head that somehow they managed to convince people to buy their blog service when there are many free alternatives out there.
That's the real interesting part about this story. How the f did you manage to get people to buy a commodity for a premium price.
And yes I'm still salty but I now work 100% remote due to the pandemic so that's lessened my hurt.
Edit: Since I'm being misread let me explain, I am saying that I tried and failed to write the same type of thing so hats off to them!
I'm a promoter of Ghost I think they are doing great work. Well done on v5.0!
Let's try to read that a bit more positively. Their trajectory was incredible impressive and really a little bit a wtf. They managed to create a product in a category everyone thought to be conquered by Wordpress and the Medium-of-the-time SV project, pivoted that from clearly a blog to something clearly more commercial. All while using a programming environment that was pretty obviously the wrong choice for the project plus starting with a severely feature-limited system. And even asking more for hosting than seemed remotely reasonable (unsure that this was true or just an impression back then, current pricing looks reasonable, but that might be a changed perspective).
Having worked on two blog engines at that time I can completely relate to the jealousness, without having applied :)
Thanks I've edited my OP to give a more clear indication of what I meant. Not sure why the downvotes it's quite incredible what they've managed to achieve far more than what I have in the 9 years to be honest!
> you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about
Huh? Why the personal attack?
I have no idea about me applying to Ghost and being Ghosted ?
> Ghost provides guarantees that no individual developer (including you) can
Where did I say that I was doing this ? If you mean that they provide an SLA and uptime guarantees and such yip and there are many and I mean many alternatives to this that give the same guarantees and always have done for the full course of the 9 years.
> they dedicated over 9 years to work on Ghost and built a company around hosting instances to fund the development
Yes and good on them ! My OP was how much of a miracle this is in software.
I gave up on that with the ringing sound in my head that somehow they managed to convince people to buy their blog service when there are many free alternatives out there.
That's the real interesting part about this story. How the f did you manage to get people to buy a commodity for a premium price.
And yes I'm still salty but I now work 100% remote due to the pandemic so that's lessened my hurt.
Edit: Since I'm being misread let me explain, I am saying that I tried and failed to write the same type of thing so hats off to them!
I'm a promoter of Ghost I think they are doing great work. Well done on v5.0!