Inside Ghost

Stories about building a non-profit, open source, independent software startup - and all the lessons learned along the way
May
15
After 5 years and $3M, here's everything we've learned from building Ghost

After 5 years and $3M, here's everything we've learned from building Ghost

Last week marked the fifth anniversary since the Ghost Kickstarter campaign which started it all. It's always fun
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May
02
It's our birthday! Three years down, $600,000 annual revenue, and what's coming next

It's our birthday! Three years down, $600,000 annual revenue, and what's coming next

On the 29th of April in 2013, I sat down in a beautiful little co-working space in Austria called Daxbau
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Mar
03
How we migrated 30,000 blogs & 400,000 users across an ocean with zero downtime

How we migrated 30,000 blogs & 400,000 users across an ocean with zero downtime

Some time in May 2013, a handful of fearless (ha) developers sat down to work on the very first implementation
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Feb
15
Moving to Singapore

Moving to Singapore

In the next couple of months we’ll be reincorporating the Ghost Foundation in Singapore and closing down all operations
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Aug
18
Ghost August update: $500k annual revenue, doubled cashflow, new UI on the way

Ghost August update: $500k annual revenue, doubled cashflow, new UI on the way

It's been a while since we last did a proper update on revenue and progress at Ghost. Last
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Apr
29
Two Years in: How we Spent The Kickstarter Money, where we are now,  and what’s next for Ghost

Two Years in: How we Spent The Kickstarter Money, where we are now, and what’s next for Ghost

April 29th is a very special day for us. It’s the day on which, two years ago, Ghost launched
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Apr
14

Making Our Slack Team Public, The New Ghost Community Hub

Just last week we announced that we’ve made all of our revenue figures public [https://ghost.org/changelog/april-2015-update/
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Apr
13

The 30 Minute Change That Made 25% More People Try Ghost: Telling Them what To Click

Sometimes little things have a disproportionately large impact. I’m not sure why this seems to surprise me, at this
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Apr
07
Ghost April Update: $411k Annual Revenue, Introducing the Public Revenue Dashboard

Ghost April Update: $411k Annual Revenue, Introducing the Public Revenue Dashboard

In January we announced [https://ghost.org/changelog/2014-report/] a big focus on transparency for 2015, and today I’m
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Jan
07
Lessons Learned Building an Open Source Product from $0 to $350,000/year in 12 months

Lessons Learned Building an Open Source Product from $0 to $350,000/year in 12 months

Just a year ago we launched our Ghost(Pro) hosted platform to allow people to easily deploy and run Ghost
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