I sort of see what you mean. But this project was crowd funded. It literally would not be getting made if there wasn’t enough interest. I’d also point to their partners: WooThemes, Envato, MarketPress and many others who have an excellent grasp of just how secure WordPress is as top blogging platform. And yet they’re helping to fund and make way for Ghost to be a big hit.

However, shooting something down because it may somehow become competition or the one creating the idea or concept may not yet be able to make it a reality is simply foolishness. I hope the WP community would be open to seeing new ideas so we all can benefit from it.

Thanks for the write up.

By the way, when viewing on mobile device, I could not kill the popup overlay making reading very difficult.

The barrier to entry of submitting something like this to WordPress is huge. The barrier to entry of thoughts, though? Nil.

The barrier to posting and getting involved on the make/ui p2 is also nil, where a lot of ideas are born and fleshed out. It’s not that the barrier is all that high for contribution, it’s that people either don’t have the time or inclination to put forth the effort to get involved.

I’m reminded of that saying about the lottery, “You can’t win if you don’t enter.”
Contributing is as much about action as it is about ideas, both of which are necessary to get discussions rolling.