Competitors
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Summary
Ask questionsGhost is an open-source publishing platform designed for professional creators and publishers. It enables users to build custom websites, publish content, send email newsletters, and offer paid subscriptions. The platform focuses on providing tools for content creation, audience growth, and business management, with a recent beta integration for ActivityPub to expand content distribution across the social web.
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Must Have
4 of 5
Rich Text Editor
Membership & Monetization
Reader Engagement Metrics
Community Feedback Tools
Distribution & Recommendation Engine
Other
8 of 8
Publication Management
User Profiles & Following
Tags & Topics
Email Newsletter Integration
Audio Story Playback
Mobile App Access
Social Sharing & Embedding
Search & Discovery
Rationale
Ghost is a strong match for the Medium concept. It provides a comprehensive platform for publishing content, including a rich text editor, membership monetization, and various tools for audience engagement and distribution. The recent ActivityPub integration further enhances its distribution capabilities, aligning with the 'Distribution & Recommendation Engine' feature, although it's still in beta. Ghost also explicitly mentions features like reader engagement metrics, community feedback tools, user profiles, tags, email newsletters, and social sharing. While it doesn't have a native recommendation engine in the same way Medium does, its ActivityPub integration aims to provide a similar network effect for content discovery. The platform also supports audio story playback and mobile app access through its integrations.
