What’s up hunters! It’s been a while ✌️ I’m excited to share our latest major version release, Ghost 6.0, which the whole team has been working incredibly hard on. The TLDR: We’re shipping two of our most-requested features ever Deeply integrated networked publishing on top of an open web protocol called ActivityPub, meaning Ghost publishers can now follow and interact with one another — as well as people across Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, WordPress, Flipboard, and more. And we’ve built a native analytics suite into the core of Ghost, to give creators and publishers more data than ever before about their audience and their business. I’m also excited to share a recent milestone: Creators and publishers have now earned more than $100,000,000 from premium subscriptions, powered by Ghost. For those of you who can remember back that far, our first ever launch on PH was in 2014. Back then, it was just me and my co-founder Hannah, shipping our first ‘real’ version of a prototype new blogging platform off the back of a Kickstarter campaign. Our MRR was ~$3k, and we had little more than hopes and dreams about what our open source publishing platform might someday turn into. Here’s how the website looked back then: https://web.archive.org/web/2014... A decade later, Ghost has evolved from a basic blogging tool into a powerful publishing platform that’s brought the business model that worked so well for SaaS startups to publishers and creators. While the media industry as a whole is in turmoil, there’s a rising tide of independent creators who are doing better than ever — earning recurring revenue directly from their audience, with a tech stack they own and control. While a lot has changed, the most important things are still the same as ever: We’re still a proud, bootstrapped non-profit organization. We still release all our software as free and open source, under an MIT license. We’re still a fully remote team, spread all over the world. And we still care deeply about using technology as a force for good. If you remember Ghost from the early days, thanks for being part of the journey! If you’re just hearing about us today for the first time, hopefully this got you curious. Either way, I hope you’ll consider checking out what we’ve been working on. Full changelog here: https://ghost.org/changelog/6/ If you want to chat or you have any questions, I’ll be hanging out today in the comments 💬
