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#007 – Building an Open-Source Publishing Platform That Makes $63,000/mo with John O'Nolan of Ghost

Indie Hackers

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Ghosts - A Remix of Existing Ideas

The first version of ghosts was 100% a remix of existing ideas out there. So they were ideas which weren't common to publishing platforms at the time. The original dashboard we had in that first mock up was almost a complete carbon copy rip of something called geckoboard.com. And when you put them together there, in some ways, recognize one, some ways not recognizable.

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