Outpost helps membership/subscription/newsletter-centered media organizations thrive online, supporting Ghost CMS-powered sites with a suite of power tools.
Saving membership-powered sites from Substack and WordPress since 2021. A member-services co-op.
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Outpost (power tools for membership-focussed publishers that use Ghost) migrated our servers and member publishers’ data to the E.U.
It doesn’t make our publishers immune to U.S. laws/investigations, but we think it’s *prudent*
Also with new architecture, it’s faster, even from the U.S.
We work with a lot of different publishers who run memberships/subscriptions/newsletters, probably a bunch that you subscribe to
Here's what we see really works to build a long-term loyal audience using Outpost’s powerful indie tools to run a membership site on @ghost
https://outpost.pub/outpost-office-hours-what-makes-publishers-the-most-money/
In other fun client news, Hell Gate NYC got a big feature in the Washington Post about their mission and Eric Adams coverage:
“With the death of scrappy alt-weeklies such as the Village Voice and the New York Observer, Hell Gate is more or less alone in its lane: the relentless chronicling and witty skewering of whichever New York character happens to be New York mayor.”
https://wapo.st/4f8lPYh (gift link)
Just look at this website!
“Five former Pitchfork journalists are getting the band back together to start a new online music publication, Hearing Things. The site, which launches on Tuesday, aims to capture the original independent spirit of Pitchfork while tuning out the stan armies that worship huge artists.” https://hearingthings.co/
Love the design by Shena Yoshida!
Kickoff time again…
Mundial Magazine, a brilliant quarterly football (e.g. soccer) magazine, launched a brand-new digital home, publishing one amazing feature every day.
Go get on the free list or just jump right into paid.
So thrilled that we at Outpost helped shepherd this and got Mundial running on the best subscription/membership-centered CMS out there: @ghost
The 51st, a worker-led nonprofit news source for D.C., built from the discarded timbers of DCist, launched today at https://51st.news Their spring Kickstarter brought in $250K.
“Our reporting is rooted in our conviction that local journalism is meant to make people’s lives better.”
So glad we at Outpost got to help a bit (and get to keep helping) and there’s real momentum in the media world of journalists doing for themselves - mutually. #journalism #localjournalism #DC #WashingtonDC
Newsprint ain’t dead yet.
Check out the Rivertowns Dispatch, along the Hudson River, which just launched a physical newspaper with a matching digital site, using the membership powers of @ghost and some help from us at Outpost.
The site:
https://rivertownsdispatch.com/
Our write-up:
https://outpost.pub/rivertowns-dispatch-newspaper/
We moved a subscription-based site from WordPress to Ghost/Outpost recently.
Can you guess from this chart of MRR revenue over the last 90 days when that happened?
A jpg of a jelly donut for the first right answer. #wordpress #ghost #subscriptions
Andy Baio
