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Ghost

Ghost

Fiercely independent, open source publishing

4.6
•32 reviews•

723 followers

Fiercely independent, open source publishing

4.6
•32 reviews•

723 followers

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Turn your audience into a business. Publishing, newsletters, memberships and subscriptions — all in one place. Decentralised. Open source. 0% payment fees.
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Launched in 2014View 12 launches
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Ghost 4.0 was ranked #2 of the month for March 2021
Ghost 2.0 was ranked #2 of the month for August 2018
Ghost 1.0 was ranked #1 of the week for July 27th, 2017
Ghost 4.0 was ranked #1 of the week for March 16th, 2021
Ghost was ranked #5 of the week for January 13th, 2014
Ghost 2.0 was ranked #1 of the week for August 21st, 2018
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Previous Ghost Launches

Ghost ActivityPub
Ghost ActivityPub Federating to join the world's largest publishing network

Launched on April 22nd, 2024

Ghost 5.0
Ghost 5.0 Publishing, newsletters, memberships & subscriptions

Launched on May 23rd, 2022

Ghost 5.0 was ranked #1 of the day for May 23rd, 2022
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Ghost 4.0 Newsletters, memberships, subscriptions - all in one place

Launched on March 16th, 2021

Ghost 4.0 was ranked #2 of the month for March 2021
Ghost 4.0 was ranked #1 of the week for March 16th, 2021
Ghost 4.0 was ranked #1 of the day for March 16th, 2021
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Ghost 4.0 was ranked #1 of the week for March 16th, 2021
Ghost 4.0 was ranked #1 of the day for March 16th, 2021
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Ghost 6.0

Ghost 6.0

Launched this week
The open source product that generates $100M+ for creators
Ghost 6.0 was ranked #5 of the day for August 4th, 2025
Networked publishing with ActivityPub, deeply integrated native analytics, a huge number of improvements, and $100M+ earned by indie publishers. Our biggest-ever release. The most exciting thing on PH today that has nothing to do with AI. Probably.
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Writing•Analytics•GitHub
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John O'Nolan
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John O'Nolan
John O'Nolan
Ghost

Ghost

Maker
📌
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 💬
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3d ago
Doug Warren
Doug Warren

@johnonolan Now I can use Ghost for both long-form content and short-form notes from web browsers, email newsletters, RSS feed readers, and now social web platforms via ActivityPub. Also, I really appreciate the integrated analytics support that has been added to the platform. Thank you.

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3d ago
Curiositry
Curiositry
Algebra Rules

Algebra Rules

@johnonolan Been self-hosting Ghost for over a decade, since the first public release (v0.3). Ghost 5 → Ghost 6 was the smoothest update yet. Congrats!

ActivityPub integration is probably the feature I've been most excited about in Ghost's whole history. It's fantastic to have a big player like Ghost throwing their weight behind POSSE and the open web!

Keep up the good work 👍

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1d ago
Aaron O'Leary
Aaron O'Leary
Product Hunt

Product Hunt

I tried Substack and Beehiiv for my own house hunting related newsletter a while back but ultimately ditched both for Ghost. The writing experience is top notch, the themes are great and it's not packed with a ton of "hype" features that feel more gimmick than useful.

Really excited to try out this new update!

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3d ago
John O'Nolan
John O'Nolan
Ghost

Ghost

Maker

@aaronoleary Legend 🙌 we do our best to focus on quality rather than quantity of features; which turns out to be.... the less trodden path in publishing tools. 😅

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3d ago
Aaron O'Leary
Aaron O'Leary
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Product Hunt

@johnonolan quality > quantity always!

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3d ago
Jonatan Svennberg
Jonatan Svennberg
Universal Avenue

Universal Avenue

Super exciting to see Ghost 6 live! Long live the open web! 🎉

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3d ago
John O'Nolan
John O'Nolan
Ghost

Ghost

Maker

@mr_lundis Thanks so much 🤗 and very much agreed

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3d ago
4.6
Based on 32 reviews
Review Ghost?

Ghost is a popular open-source publishing platform praised for its user-friendly interface and robust features. Makers from Poolsuite appreciate its capability to power their headless newsroom feature, while Ritt highlights its ease of use for blog creation. Users commend its seamless publishing experience, intuitive design, and strong support. However, some note limitations with email integration and customization. Overall, Ghost is valued for its simplicity and effectiveness in content management, making it a favored choice for bloggers and publishers.

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Jennifer McFarland
Jennifer McFarland
•1 review
I recently migrated off of WordPress and onto Ghost. The migration was flawlessly executed. Customer service is amazing, and my website is not only beautiful but screaming fast. The creator community is awesome and I’m learning so many new things about how to build a publication and community using best practices. What can I say, I’m in love. It’s well-supported and fundamentally sound.
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3yr ago
John O'Nolan
John O'Nolan
Ghost

Ghost

So thrilled to hear this Jennifer, thank you so much for the lovely review. I'll pass this along to the rest of the team, too :)
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3yr ago
Reb Sadran
•3 reviews
We've been using ghost for over 2 years now and we regret the lockin. It does a lot and does many things well but even more so it does a lot of things very badly: - The mariadb support drop was a major complication. - The codebase is amateur with a lot of todo comments, non functional areas and - The admin API is very limited, meaning you have to reverse engineer backend API yourself to do more complex tasks. - The front end is slow and very difficult to extend. Theming is a real mess with a lot of hard coded areas that require very awkward patching. The front-end is making any long-term support almost impossible: - There's no version control for articles. There's no individual article backup for implementing your own version control and automation. The admin API is there but it's very difficult to use. - There's no way to extend or modify UI. For example there's no mass modification, tagging or any advance features that you'd expect from a long-term CMS. - It's really slow and most components are not compatible with the modern web. There's no predictable media naming for lazy preloading and other small issues that severely damages SEO potential. Honestly, the value provided by Ghost is overshadowed by things that are just broken or badly designed. We regret basing our project on it.
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1yr ago
John O'Nolan
John O'Nolan
Ghost

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I'm quite confused to see this comment posted in November 2023, because it sounds like you're maybe using a very old version of Ghost that's about 7 years out of date? If you update to the latest version I think you'd find that almost all of the points you mentioned have already been fixed, added or improved :)
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11mo ago
Uri Bram
Uri Bram
•2 reviews
Just an incredible product, built with so much obvious love and craft -- never ceases to amaze and delight.
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