Ghost 5.0 - Publishing, newsletters, memberships & subscriptions

Hi ProductHunt! 👋 It's been 9 years since the first version of Ghost launched on Kickstarter and today we're excited to launch the 5th major version of the platform. Around this time last year, we launched the first public version of Ghost with memberships and subscriptions built-in natively. Ever since then, we've been sprinting to keep up with demand as the creator economy has taken off at full-tilt. So, the major focus of this release has been expanding on that core foundation and delivering a set of features to help creators build successful indie businesses themselves. You can click through to the post if you want the full run-down, but here's a quick overview of what's new: 📬 Ghost can now run *multiple* newsletters for different types of content, each with their own sender names, branding and subscription lists. 📈 We completely overhauled the dashboard to make it more powerful, with revenue, engagement and native email stats, at a glance. 💰 Custom subscription tiers make it possible to offer your audience more ways to become paid subscribers, and a native offers feature allows you to grow your revenue (still with 0% payment fees). ✍️ A host of new cards in the Ghost editor allow publishers to add GIFs, call outs, toggles, products, videos, audio, and much more to their content. 💅 We've released several official new open source themes and introduced new ways to customise brand settings for websites and newsletters, directly inside Ghost Admin. ➕ Plus, brand new developer tutorials, performance improvements, and much more Full changelog here: https://ghost.org/changelog/5/ Ghost is now a team of 31, with $5M annual revenue. Still completely open source, still non-profit, still remote, still decentralised, still growing, and still got love for the streets. We can't wait to see what you do with 5.0 — and we'll be hanging out in the comments all day to chat ✌️

I love Ghost to bits. One of the best tools for the creator economy 🖤 It powers our newsletter Maker Stations where we feature high-quality, in-depth interviews with creators and makers about their workspaces. As independent creators, all we need to do is hit the Publish button and see the audience grow. That’s it — Ghost has removed the barriers between our subscribers and us. If blogging is a marathon… well, then Ghost gave us damn good trainers 👟

Audience analytics had been one of Ghost's very few weak spots — no more. This is big!

What an evolution! Having audited several Landing Pages for Ghost customers I can vouch the calibre of publications is much higher than any other platforms I deal with. Ghost has become the go-to for anyone wanting to build a sustainable publishing business. High Fives 🖐 (excuse the pun)

Congrats! Are you seeing an influx of people moving from Wordpress, Wix, Substack etc. to Ghost now?

This is all marvellous. I've been using Ghost for a year with the intention of turning a humble newsletter into a full membership programme. Being able to now run multiple newsletters is the one thing I've been waiting for and it looks amazing. Well done team!

Wow, I like graphs and numbers - they don't lie :) The analytics seem nice. Congratulations on the release, thanks for sharing!

Great launch 🚀! I love the idea.

Let's go! 🚀 Just updated my own website and it was a breeze, no issues found. Thank you!

came here to upvote. using ghost heavily for years now, one of my favorites on producthunt