It gained a lot of its initial traction by unveiling a very slick, built-in dashboard. This was a design concept, and hasn't materialized (yet).
In its current state, it's an extremely basic blogging platform with a built-in Markdown editor. For me, that was enough to become an early adopter, because I think it has more long-term potential for interesting new features than, say, Jekyll. That said, there are still a lot of rough edges.
Regarding the dashboard, there is lower-hanging fruit with greater payoff for Ghost, including the API (which is apparently a prerequisite to the dashboard anyway). They seem to be prioritizing the right things.
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It gained a lot of its initial traction by unveiling a very slick, built-in dashboard. This was a design concept, and hasn't materialized (yet).
In its current state, it's an extremely basic blogging platform with a built-in Markdown editor. For me, that was enough to become an early adopter, because I think it has more long-term potential for interesting new features than, say, Jekyll. That said, there are still a lot of rough edges.
Regarding the dashboard, there is lower-hanging fruit with greater payoff for Ghost, including the API (which is apparently a prerequisite to the dashboard anyway). They seem to be prioritizing the right things.