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by johnonolan 8y ago
We pay full corporation taxes and receive no tax benefits of any kind. As mentioned several times in this thread, our company is based in Singapore, not the US. The structures, laws and taxes are not equivalent. I wrote a post about this a
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by johnonolan 8y ago
Essentially the same as you determine salary at any other company: In the early days there's no structure, you just get on with it. As the company grows, generally a board of directors (or non-profit: board of trustees) act as an indep
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by johnonolan 8y ago
Shared hosting - $1.99, here's your server, good luck Managed hosting - $29, you get your own server, app, automation, backups, and 24/7 support to make sure everything is working great Centralised, multi-tenant application - $0-$
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by johnonolan 8y ago
Fantastic question. So the obvious answer is grow the company, right? That's pretty much what Amazon did for 20 years. Eschew profit in favour of reinvesting in building the company as big as possible. Not really our style, we'd r
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by johnonolan 8y ago
We do have all of those things :) For self-hosters, Ghost-CLI has deep Let's Encrypt integration. The tool will automatically guide you through provisioning an SSL certificate during the install process. On Ghost(Pro) we have full end
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by johnonolan 8y ago
Yes they are exactly that. Same with Automattic, Zapier, Buffer - and most of the other big remote companies. In fact, we all use the same set of contracts. They tend to get passed around founders. All 3 of those other companies are USA bas
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by johnonolan 8y ago
The company is based in Singapore, and the exact structure is a Company Limited by Guarantee with bylaws specifying mission. This is the standard entity for a non-profit entity which operates in a commercial space under British common law (
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by johnonolan 8y ago
We do managed hosting, so the comparison is to "Managed WP Hosting" - which is exactly what the page says. Here's an example of a managed WP host: https://wpengine.com/plans/ Here is an independent speed
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by johnonolan 8y ago
Good morning HN! John from Ghost here - Thanks for all your support over the last 5 years. We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for that very first blog post hitting the #1 spot of HN and getting so much attention back in 2012. That w
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by johnonolan 8y ago
Good morning HN! John from Ghost here - Thanks for all your support over the last 5 years. We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for that very first blog post hitting the #1 spot of HN and getting so much attention back in 2012. That w
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by johnonolan 9y ago
Hey! Ghost(Pro) is targeted mainly at business users who want a solid managed service, but there's absolutely no downside to self-hosting. We don't do any feature-gating, so you get the same software no matter where you want to ru
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by johnonolan 9y ago
Our customers are predominantly businesses and professional users who are quite happy to pay for a fully managed service and automation to save themselves time and energy. It's exactly the same as how you can self-host WordPress or Dis
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by johnonolan 9y ago
Yeah, sounds a lot like a CF DNS resolution problem at one particular edge node. Are you able to stop the browser on the CF error page and copy/paste the RayID for me? Would be helpful for us to report upstream and ask CF to flush thei
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by johnonolan 9y ago
John here from ghost.org/fail - not sure what happened there! Can't reproduce, but sounds like it was a temporary DNS resolution glitch. Will keep an eye on it
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by johnonolan 9y ago
Thanks for the kind words :) I wrote a series of posts a while back about all of the thinking which went into the campaign https://john.onolan.org/the-anatomy-of-a-successful-kickstar... - OP might find that useful. We borr
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by johnonolan 9y ago
https://twitter.com/mathowie/status/837735473745289218
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by johnonolan 9y ago
Sure, this release includes Ghost-CLI, which enables auto-updates for the first time. Details here: https://dev.ghost.org/ghost-1-0-0/
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by johnonolan 9y ago
> Since they kicked that to the curb and said "fuck yeah CMS, baby," This literally never happened, but ok? > have come to the conclusion that if I actually wanted to do that and wanted to be able to target the same kinds of
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by johnonolan 9y ago
Not sure what line that is but Ghost's desktop app is definitely Electron. For the record, it was also built handedly by one open source contributor (Felix Rieseberg) and absolutely would not exist if not for Electron.
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by johnonolan 10y ago
It was from right here, on this very website, the news of hackers
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by johnonolan 10y ago
Totally fair comment. We are (slowly but surely) coming to the end of the cycle now as we work toward releasing version 1.0. Things will definitely speed up again after that
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by johnonolan 10y ago
Thanks so much for being a customer! :) And for those who have asked similar things about the Pro service, and why it's expensive compared to a VPS, ^ this is one of the most common reasons we get. Lots of developers start out self-hos
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by johnonolan 10y ago
It wasn't, technically, but it was in terms of mainstream availability. Digital Ocean started around the same time as us, for reference. So it cloud VPS was just starting to become the popular option, but it was still far from being th
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by johnonolan 11y ago
There is no multi-site version of Ghost. Our Pro service runs the same OSS code that we release publicly. We use internal software to setup, manage and administer all the different instances which we run. There is no difference in features
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by johnonolan 11y ago
The utterly predictable "clearly you didn't research this properly and I know far more than you" HN commenter. You are so fucking boring. No hackerboos, we didn't bother researching any of this properly seeing as we have
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by johnonolan 12y ago
We had a quick call on Skype and it pretty much went from there :)
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by johnonolan 12y ago
Hey Adam, great question! I took the conversion %'s measured and applied them to a base sample size just to make the numbers in the post a little bit more easy to read/understand. Hope this helps clarify
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by johnonolan 12y ago
Hey Jason, that's actually pretty true. We found a segment which converted 1,000% better and then managed to increase the number of people in that segment by 370% The title of the post is "How we Figured Out What Makes People Love
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by johnonolan 13y ago
Ghost is based in the UK - where Charities can pay some people but, most notably, not the trustees who run it. Apologies for not making that clearer!
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by johnonolan 13y ago
I apologise for the confusion guys, this site wasn't really intended with you in mind as the target audience. I believe there was another direct link to the Kickstarter campaign which would have been more appropriate for HN. The marketing s

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