Ghost for Makers
The open source platform used by makers all over the world to tell the story of their project, and their journey.
Why should indie makers use Ghost?
Discover a platform writers love, built with technology developers prefer. Everything you need to share your maker story is here.
Build a custom maker blog
Each Ghost site is highly customisable with a sensible theme layer, and a marketplace of beautiful themes - or you can create your own.
Focus on your content
Stop wasting hours on site admin and spend more time building your brand, and developing meaningful relationships with your audience.
Ghost takes care of performance & SEO in the background with structured data, AMP, XML sitemaps and more – with no extra downloads or plugins required.
Meanwhile, writers can enjoy a familiar editing experience using dynamic cards that support image galleries, embeds, Markdown, HTML and bookmark links.
Native membership features allow you to transform anonymous views into registered members, or even generate revenue with premium content and recurring subscriptions.
No more relying on basic page views: find out how your content truly resonates with your audience.
Bring your existing tools
Ghost has hundreds of integrations, which means you can connect all of your favourite apps and automate your workflow.
Thousands of businesses rely on Ghost
The platform is trusted by a growing number of startups running their company blog, because it's flexible, modern and fully open source.
Features for makers & developers
You can get started in minutes and all the features you need to tell your story are built-in, with no bloated plugins to maintain.
Rich editor
Experience a familiar environment for writers that allows you to focus on one thing: creating unique content.
SEO built-in
Enjoy faster site speeds & built-in SEO with detailed structured data, canonicals, XML sitemaps, custom meta-data & more.
Completely customisable
Ghost is open source & adaptable with a robust core JSON API and a powerful front-end theme layer.
Native email
Bring your existing audience and publish new content to email in a couple of clicks, with a beautiful HTML template.
Memberships & subscriptions
Discover who is reading your content and get closer to your audience with native memberships & subscriptions with Stripe.
Real content gating
Publish premium content that is protected and accessible only to member accounts. Even if JavaScript is disabled.
Hundreds of thousands of happy users
Since 2013 people have been telling us how Ghost has helped them get more done. Here are a few of the highlights:
Get started with Ghost today
We set up 7,054 new publications in the last week. Yours will be up and running in minutes!
- Free 14-day trial
- Easy setup
- Open source
