It's great to see how Kickstarter helped also "stabilize" the development of Open Source software (another example is Django Migrations project [0] which has been discussed here a couple of times already). It helped Ghost provide something on a much higher and usable level than most other Open Source projects did, which should have positive impact on the user/community adoption. I'm speaking here about collaboration with Digital Ocean, Rackspace and Envato, as well as the marketing campaign by Kickstarter before this release. DOcean, RackSpace and Envato alone will generate pretty high traffic and build up the community, especially if Envato (with Tutsplus/Nettuts) starts doing something similar as for Laravel [1][2][3], and provide free developer introduction to the platform.
Glad to see this, hope it will keep up the expectations.
I think it's the idea in general, not the specific platform. Joey Hess was able to successfully run his own crowdfunding campaign with custom written software.
Glad to see this, hope it will keep up the expectations.
[0] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migr...
[1] http://laravel.com/
[2] http://net.tutsplus.com/tag/laravel/
[3] https://tutsplus.com/course/laravel-essentials/