As a developer, the costs towards developing ghost seems high: 3 employees and $70,907.89 on subcontracting. Is my mindset wrong?<p>I like ghost.org, it's clean and fast. OTOH it's not complicated or revolutionary, is it? I followed ghost for a while and was not impressed by the pace of development. New features took ages.<p>Anyone know why the development is so (seemingly) slow? Bureaucracy? Slow decision making?
In an age where everybody talks about cloud infrastructure, I find it a very interesting decision to spend $30k on servers up front.<p>Apart from reducing operating costs, I never thought about servers as assets. Essentially, using things like AWS for operations makes the money go away as soon as it's spent. That's a very real risk if you're striving for a sustainable business that doesn't run on ads and you don't yet know where this is going.