Ghost
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
2warn against
Jan 13, 2026first mention
Oct 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Ghost crm”
“the Ghost platform in particular is a great value for small publishers, bundling together the blog, newsletter and subscriptions in one package”
Caveats and dissent
“It looks like my site was exploited by CVE-2026-26980 affecting all Ghost sites pre v6.19”
blog author whose site was compromisedon “Good Careers at Bad Companies”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc 1 mention
- Ask HN: What self-hosted apps do you use daily? 1 mention
- Visual Basic on the PC with Windows 3.1 1 mention
- Good Careers at Bad Companies 1 mention
- Ask HN: Have you cancelled any software subscriptions because AI replaced them? 1 mention
- Ask HN: What's your favorite self-hosted application? 1 mention
Data: ghost.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“Ghost's editor sucks”
“ghost - blogging on my public web server”
“I only use the built-in Ghost blogging subscription for those who want it delivered to their email”
“It looks like my site was exploited by CVE-2026-26980 affecting all Ghost sites pre v6.19”
“I have a Gost Pro newsletter I am replacing next with my own custom solution.”
“Ghost crm”
“the Ghost platform in particular is a great value for small publishers, bundling together the blog, newsletter and subscriptions in one package”