Indie Hackers

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

Mar 16, 2017

58:12

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John O'Nolan

Highlights

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Episode notes

Do You Have Any Idea What You're Doing?

01:22

How Does Income Affect Your Happiness?

01:20

Is There a Gap in the Market? Industry insiders will know

01:08

Ghost - Is There a Point at Which Old Knowledge Becomes Detrimental?

01:05

Introduction

2min

Ghost - A Simple, Focused Publishing Platform

3min

Ghost Is Not a Revolutionary Idea, Is It?

4min

WordPress

2min

Is There a Gap in the Market?

2min

I'm a Great Remixer and I Love Taking Existing Ideas

2min

Ghosts - A Remix of Existing Ideas

5min

Ghost

3min

Hacker News - What's Your Passion?

3min

10.

How Does It Goes to Make Money?

3min

11.

Ghost Publishing Software - You're a Nonprofit, Right?

5min

12.

I've Never Had Such Traction Before

2min

13.

Ghost - How Long Have You Been Using Your Industry Domain Knowledge?

3min

14.

Haka News - What Was It Like Launching Your Platform as a Service Offering?

3min

15.

Ghosts

3min

16.

Why Would You Run a for Profit Corporation?

3min

17.

Do You Really Want to Be a Millionaire?

3min

18.

Is There a Better Way to Live Your Life Than a Millionaire?

3min

19.

The Biggest Mistakes You've Made With Ghosts

3min

20.

Do You Have Any Idea What You're Doing?

2min

21.

What's Up With the Endi Hackers?

2min

John O'Nolan explains how he used his industry experience to come up with a simple idea, built a landing page that converted 30,000 email subscribers, and raised $300,000 on Kickstarter. Brought to you by SparkPost.

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