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Ghost vs HubSpot: What are the differences?

Developers describe Ghost as "Just a blogging platform". Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customisable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do. On the other hand, HubSpot is detailed as "All the software you need to do inbound marketing". Attract, convert, close and delight customers with HubSpot’s complete set of marketing tools. HubSpot all-in-one marketing software helps more than 12,000 companies in 56 countries attract leads and convert them into customers.

Ghost can be classified as a tool in the "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" category, while HubSpot is grouped under "Marketing Automation".

"Beautiful" is the top reason why over 40 developers like Ghost, while over 36 developers mention "Lead management" as the leading cause for choosing HubSpot.

Ghost is an open source tool with 30.2K GitHub stars and 6.52K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Ghost's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, HubSpot has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1363 company stacks & 186 developers stacks; compared to Ghost, which is listed in 60 company stacks and 39 developer stacks.

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What is Ghost?

Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customisable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do.

What is HubSpot?

Attract, convert, close and delight customers with HubSpot’s complete set of marketing tools. HubSpot all-in-one marketing software helps more than 12,000 companies in 56 countries attract leads and convert them into customers.

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Why do developers choose Ghost?

Why do developers choose HubSpot?

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Beautiful
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Fast
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Quick/simple post styling
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Live Post Preview
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Non-profit
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Open source
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Seamless writing

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Lead management
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Automatic customer segmenting based on properties
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What are some alternatives to Ghost and HubSpot?

Poltergeist

Poltergeist is a driver for Capybara. It allows you to run your Capybara tests on a headless WebKit browser, provided by PhantomJS.

WordPress

The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.

Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

Joomla!

Joomla is a simple and powerful web server application and it requires a server with PHP and either MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server to run it.

Adobe Experience Manager

It is a Web Content Management System that allows companies to manage their web content (Web pages, digital assets, forms, etc) and also create digital experiences with this content on any platform web, mobile or IoT.

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Ghost

The Ghost CMS is built on Node.js and provides the means to post new content (articles) to the site. As I have little time to actually spend on broadcasting my thoughts to the blogosphere, this doesn't see much use.