After 5 years and $3M, here’s everything we’ve learned from building Ghost

Last week marked the fifth anniversary since the Ghost Kickstarter campaign which started it all. It’s always fun to use these milestones to take a step back and reflect on the journey so far. On previous birthdays I’ve talked about revenue milestones and product updates, but this year I’m going to focus more on all the things we’ve learned since we started.
Just for context though, here’s a quick overview of where we are today:
MRR: $82,000
Annual Net Revenue: $1.2million
All-time Revenue: $3million
Github Stars: 25,000
Releases: 173
Sites using Ghost: 512,000
Biggest users: Apple, Tinder, DuckDuckGo, Mozilla, OpenAI, OkCupid, Square, Vevo, DigitalOcean, Napster, CloudFlare and many, many more.
Runway: Just kidding, we’ve been profitable since year 1
We started working on Ghost because we wanted to build a great open source publishing platform which would empower independent creators, but we also started this company as a social experiment. We wanted to know: What would it look like if you built a technology startup which could not make anyone rich. If you eliminated all the promises of wealth from the roadmap up front, and tried to build a good company, how would that affect the product,
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