What's up everyone? This is Cortland from IndieHackers.com.

And today I'll be speaking with John O'Nolan, the founder of Ghost, which today is an open-source non-profit company that makes well over $60,000 a month in revenue.

But in 2012, John was a WordPress developer who had become disillusioned with how bloated and complex WordPress had become.

So we created some mockups and put together a concept page for a new type of publishing platform that would focus on one thing and one thing only, which is helping bloggers and journalists get their voices heard.

Within three months, he had over 30,000 people sign up for his mailing list, so there's a lot

to learn here about what it's like to find real traction and about the advantages that come

with having domain expertise and working on a company in an industry that you actually understand.

Meanwhile, John is traveling the world as a digital nomad. He's surfing all the time, building his

company, and in general just doing what he loves. So there's also a lot to learn about

building the kind of company that you enjoy running that can last a lifetime. I hope you guys

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Thanks for joining. I know it's a little bit short notice, but I'm super excited to have you on the podcast.

For those who don't know, John O'Nolan is the creator of Ghost, which is a publishing platform that you first conceived of in 2012.

You created a concept page that went on to basically just dominate the

internet for a few days and wrapped up like 100,000 page views. It was at the top of Hacker News.

Everybody was tweeting about it and talking about it. And that project went on to become ghost.

That's right. It was a pretty wild ride since then.

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