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News
Ghost hits $9m ARR
Congrats to the team at Ghost for reaching $9m ARR. It seems like they've added a couple of million in recurring revenue in 2025.
Here's an affiliate link if you want to try Ghost ​
Today @Ghost passed $9M ARR — the first time we've ever crossed a $1M milestone 2x in a calendar year 🎉
— John O'Nolan (@JohnONolan) November 24, 2025
Publisher revenue is growing even faster!
Now more than $120M GMV earned by writers and journalists using the product to fund their work pic.twitter.com/0SqsF2sNtF
Stripe add revenue verification
It's quite funny seeing one of the most valuable private companies in the world copy from an indie hacker. Marc Lou made his site TrustMRR recently, which shows revenue of startups. All this data is verified by Stripe.
