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Ghost 3.0 — A new business model for publishing
A new business model for publishing, a more powerful headless CMS and a refined publishing experience.
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@johnonolan I just saw https://rediverge.com/about/ wow! amazing. Stripe Checkout + Sign up so good!!! And also i love the darkmode as well. Well done!!!!!!!!!!!! So impressive on Jamstack too!
@johnonolan Congrats on the fast improvements from 1.X -> 2.0 -> 3.0. The last two releases are really exciting!
@alexwelcing Really appreciate it! Feels like we've come a long way since 1.x already
@johnonolan this is awesome. One question - will you all ever consider offer a version paid for by a % of payments processed like Substack? Makes it much easier to get started, especially if you're not exactly sure how you're going to monetize yet.
@levelsio Not the easiest migration I've ever done Piet - your WP theme was very "creative"
@levelsio @johnonolan for some reason, when you import from wordpress, there are additional < p > tags inserted for paras, not really a conversion option to blocks for editing?
👋 Hey @johnonolan,
Congrats with the launch! 🤜
Great to see 1 big update from Ghost per year!
2014: Ghost 0.1
2017: Ghost: 1.0
2018: Ghost: 2.0
2019: Ghost: 3.0
Ghost is the big inspiration for all indie SaaS business!
Questions:
1. Is it possible to have something like Patreon business model, where all of my articles are pubic, but some people can make recurrent donations and I can put their names on sponsored page?
2. Are you planning to make a recommendation engine where I can discover authors based on my interests so I can follow them be notified when the publish new article?
@johnonolan about 1: how do you do this Patreon like supporting without making posts private?
@erwblo You can set posts to be public of private on an individual level, as well as a global default - there's no requirement to have _any_ of your posts private, or require payment!
@andreyazimov @johnonolan I’m hearing harps and seeing angels because of this. I love this product, and the new updates is making this a lifelong marriage.
@levelsio Definitely not everything. But I think increasingly people are willing to pay for niches which are in an area that they care deeply about. I think in the long term, lots of people will have non-overlapping subscriptions to a few things they're most interested in, and that the long tail of small subscription businesses could be really great for the next generation of the open web and smaller communities within it.
This looks so interesting, and solves so many issues for publishers. Are there other payment options, besides Stripe? Stripe, unfortunately not available everywhere.
@ebrahimkhalil Totally :) For this first release Stripe is the billing gateway we've partnered with, but we'll definitely be listening to user feedback around what other payment gateways would be important to see in future.
@ebrahimkhalil @johnonolan I realize you can't make solutions for every country, but in the Netherlands more or less Ideal is default. It's possible to implement that in Stripe. So if there is room on the todo list ;-)
@johnonolan - awesome. this list may help https://checkout.fyi/. Paypal works most places, or there is a work around.
exciting update! (and great design on the rediverge "demo" page too btw!). Is there an API to use the new members feature despite using Ghost as headless CMS, e.g. with Gatsby?
@bloodhound5 Not yet! To start with Members is tightly integrated with Ghost's native front end, but we're definitely interested in exploring options where identity can be headless too
Huge congratulations to the entire Ghost team on a massive launch. Thanks for continuously working toward a product that provides so much value to the publishing community. And thanks for doing it with a soul. 🙂
Super excited to read Rediverge and play around with the new 3.0 features!
@stephsmith Thanks so much Steph! Your support has been amazing and stoked to have you on our new homepage :)
Congrats on the big launch @johnonolan! Also amazing work on the new design. Not only does the design look beautiful, you really nailed the head with the way you structured the content. This is gonna convert so well!
@dannypostmaa Thanks Danny! I enjoyed your Tweet analysis of the design actually, you totally nailed each part of the thought that went into the page. Really glad it resonated!
@johnonolan Glad you enjoyed it! Aileen texted me the exact same about the Tweet Storm haha! I am using the same template with clients too, partly inspired by the StoryBrand book.
Congratulations! I've been running our development blog on Ghost for a few years and love it. Our marketing blog is on the 'other' blog engine and I avoid it like the plague. Ghost is just so much easier, lightweight, reliable and functional that I will keep fighting to keep our dev blog on it. Looking forward to upgrading to 3.0 soon.
Wow! You are giving anyone the power to monetize their written work, and potentially become financially independent from it. What could be more meaningful?
Have been exploring a ton of diff CMS options for our company blog and Ghost was on the list...now it just rose to the top of that list! Congrats on the launch!
@johnonolan I just wanted to thank you. To you and the whole team for this incredible release. I believe I need to update my website ASAP: https://a-data-driven-guy.com.
Favorite features?
- Integration with newsletters
- Members
- The New Stack
Kudos to the whole crew.
If the mint UI and data schema doesn't make you stoked, read the mission, values, and business model. Effects may cause extreme delight, excitement, and personal development considerations. You can write stories too.
already subscribed to https://rediverge.com. Hope to see great content and learning
@vinod_kumar_kashyap Thanks so much! I'm amazed just how many people have already signed up :) will be adding much more to the site over the next few days
I've been staring at this error for a while now:
Update WordPress
Downloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/...…
Download failed.: The checksum of the file (d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e) does not match the expected checksum value (e63b57efd074c2054cc44816ae70a97a).
Installation Failed
So yes, I'm all in for Ghost3. (Potentially.)
@angelday Hey! We'd love to help if you can share some more details on forum.ghost.org :) appreciate you testing out the plugin so quickly
Congrats on the v3 launch Ghost team! Looking stellar as always and that membership recurring income slider is 🔥
ps. just signed up at Rediverge - looking forward to the good behind-the-scenes insight!
@robhope you're a gentleman and a scholar, thank you so much for the support <3
Really love this @johnonolan! Will this work for putting podcasts behind a paywall as well?
@timothybucksf Absolutely :) had a few requests about this already, so we're also looking at if there's any more we can do in this space
@johnonolan Great! Three features I'd love to see in order of importance.
1. A quick process for subscribers to add the podcast to their podcast player of choice. (https://www.supercast.com/ does this really well)
2. Unique podcast url for each paid subscriber (meaning if they cancel their subscription, they lose access)
3. The ability to see if one subscriber's url is being used on tons of devices ~20+... to catch if people share their url on Reddit or whatever.
@timothybucksf Great notes! I've heard a lot of good things about supercast lately
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