@johnonolan.bsky.social - John O'Nolan · Scour

experimenting with a media library for @ghost.org (WIP)

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On this day, 13y ago, @ghost.org started as an idea on kickstarter

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Lots of publishing platforms claim to be independent and open.

bsky.app·2w·Bluesky

In SF for Stripe Sessions again this year - say hi if you’re around!

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Experimenting with some AI-assisted features in @Ghost for helping with generated structured data and site administration

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Only realised after posting:

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

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This week Cloudflare shamelessly cloned and released the product of one of their primary competitors.

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Goin' live with the Laravel team here in a couple mins 🔊

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I've seen some of what Aaron's working on here, and it's so far ahead of anything I've managed to figure out for myself.

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one thing I didn't expect while building alcove.news is the unbridled joy of removing newsletters from my email inbox

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Back on GPT 5.2 Max fulltime now, Claude 4.5 has been nerfed so hard it's actually unusable this week

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I've decided to pursue a very bad idea and see where it goes.

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If you're curious about the build of Ghost Explore — and some of the details of my ... *checks notes* ... 1,256 commits on this project over the past few months

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Stoked to share some of the details behind a project I've been working on for a long time, in partnership with

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Today @ghost.org passed $9M ARR — the first time we've ever crossed a $1M milestone 2x in a calendar year 🎉

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development DB dropped again

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After 3 months - counting by number of servers (unique domains) - @ghost.org is now the most-deployed piece of ActivityPub software out there

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Doing ~12M req/mo now on my laravel app - which powers explore.ghost.org (the public front end is very simple, the back end is much more extensive)

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I'm always impressed by just how many people who've never maintained any open source software are so wonderfully generous with their advice about how to do it c...

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