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  "name": "Ghost",
  "url": "https://ghost.org",
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  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Publishing platform with newsletters",
  "price": "Self-host free (MIT). Ghost(Pro) Starter $18/mo yearly (1k members, 1 staff), Publisher $29/mo (3 staff), Business $199/mo (10k members, 15 staff).",
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  "what": "Ghost is an MIT-licensed publishing platform with a genuinely polished writing editor, membership and paid-subscription billing, and email newsletters built in. It can run headless through its Content API while keeping the native admin for writers.",
  "why": "The only option here that ships paid subscriptions and newsletter delivery out of the box — if the publication's business model is paying readers, Ghost skips months of build work.",
  "warn": "Going headless means giving up its themes and much of its built-in SEO and membership front end. Self-hosting adds mail delivery costs of roughly $15-$35/mo. Content modeling is fixed to posts, pages, tags and authors.",
  "install": "npm i -g ghost-cli",
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    "name": "CMS & content infrastructure",
    "desc": "If you publish, this is the most consequential decision on the page.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
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    "final_url": "https://ghost.org/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T17:12:38.21+00:00"
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