John O'Nolan

Founder/CEO @Ghost — Geographically restless.
Making an RSS reader for some reason @AlcoveNews

[John O'Nolan @JohnONolan]

Today @Ghost crossed $10M ARR, as a bootstrapped non-profit foundation building open source software.

Indie publisher revenue earned with Ghost now ~$130M, and accelerating.

The world of technology is shifting rapidly, and so is the world of media, creators and journalism. It's hard to keep up with, and even harder to predict.

My strong belief, though, is that open software that you own and control is going to be even more important and relevant in the future than it is now.

So we're going to keep building it.

[John O'Nolan @JohnONolan]

@MrnllMtt @Ghost Nice! What’s worse that we should prioritize?

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@MikeFritzell Thank you! What’s still lagging that we should prioritize?

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@IanLandsman Desktop 4.8 induces rage in me that I haven’t experienced since 4.1 - absolutely hate it

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@driesvints @gonedark In Claude Code use /btw
In Codex Desktop cmd+enter

Both steer existing work rather than queue

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@karrisaarinen @linear ghost 🤗

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@MikeFritzell I’m not clear how you imagine this working. Autofill from where?

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@williambout @brian_lovin @jacobmparis @fabi98_6 @merycodes Might also work pointing right, more of a "You are here" vibe (vs implicit 'uploading' vibe)

[Aaron Francis @aarondfrancis]

What did horse ebooks see

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@jeff_weinstein Vercel’s new one is so good

https://t.co/jq7KOpgBsb

[John O'Nolan @JohnONolan]

@jamesthomason Not sure what you mean about support email being a blackhole - I can see the message you sent, and a member of our team will respond shortly to give you a hand

[John O'Nolan @JohnONolan]

@imrogb @FeaturebaseHQ

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@peduarte FWIW you replying to them was what caused them to show up in my feed - otherwise never would have seen any

Kinda Streisand algorithm on that

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@IanLandsman @Shpigford @LCSlates @stripe @jeff_weinstein You should see my radar rules - I have no problem turning down revenue for an easier life

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@Shpigford @LCSlates @stripe @jeff_weinstein this is a rly good idea

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@IanLandsman @Shpigford @LCSlates @stripe @jeff_weinstein I’d do it 🕺

But even just having the data would at least allow you to classify transaction risk profile as a merchant and decide how to treat it

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@benthompson Figma also does this with its background agent, drives me nuts

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@LCSlates @stripe what if stripe published a report on how often banks sided with merchants vs buyers and then allowed you to deny transactions from banks that are hostile to merchants. 🤔

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@staysaasy @VCBrags Yes

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@nico_jeannen They’ve all read a book by a guy called Alex Hormozi who teaches them how to get rich by using this exact format

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@tnylea @Ghost nice! which one did you build? any key takeaways?

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experimenting with a media library for @ghost (WIP)