Mastodawn

Since I started using MacOS 18+ months ago, I've really found myself playing around with and testing a lot of different apps. This has had me thinking for a few weeks now, that I wanted to start doing reviews of the apps I use so that others can see what those apps are about and if they are worth it.

So today, I decided to launch a new website, https://PureApp.reviews and I'll be doing just that. I'll be providing Honest, Curated, Pure MacOS app reviews so that others can get a non-biased review of the apps I use and enjoy, or play around with and test.

I'd be honored if you would give it a view, as it does have my first app review posted this morning, and more to come as often as possible.

Also, in the near future, since I'm using Ghost Blog as the CMS for the site, I might introduce a newsletter if that's something people are interested in. For now, I'm just going to focus on app reviews straight to the site!

#PureAppReviews #Apps #App #AppReviews #MacOS #MacApps

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Aaron

5d ago

@cliffwade Congrats!! This is great. Best of luck to you, my friend. 🤘🏻

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Cliff

@Aaron Thank you Aaron! It's going to be a tough ride I'm sure.

I likely need to figure out member stuff and newsletter stuff. Both of which I've never done anything with in any way.

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Aaron

5d ago

@cliffwade It's a slooooow process, I assure you. Take it slow, enjoy the writing, build slowly on those extras. I'm pretty sure Ghost has simple hooks for the stuff you want to do. You've got this.

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Cliff 5d ago

@Aaron Hooks??! You're speaking Greek to me! LOL

I'm so new to all of this, outside of the writing/blogging part. I feel I have so much to learn when it comes to Ghost Blog, and even more so when it comes to members and newsletters.

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Aaron

5d ago

@cliffwade From what I know, the newsletter and membership stuff in Ghost is pretty simple in the admin panel. My advice: just write. Don't worry about the rest for a few weeks at least. Get some stuff up there you're proud of, can link to, and simply get the ball rolling.

And I wish i'd started with Ghost with TimeMachiner. It didn't exist yet so I had to piece everything together with a zillion plugins, like one does with WordPress. It's a slog.

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Cliff 5d ago

@Aaron Gotcha, and that's certainly what I was thinking and preparing myself for as well.

I agree with the WP stuff. I still have my WP site on my SeerOfSouls.com site, but I rarely write there it feels like. More for product reviews, which I don't do a lot of.

I was looking at Ghost to have a lightweight blog and not all the heavy needs that WP comes with as far as editing, writing, this and that. Then this idea popped in my head with regards to app reviews, and here we are.