The Magic Pages Podcast

Odcinki

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  Meet the engineer behind self-hosted Ghost 01.10.2026 41min

  Austin Burdine built Ghost CLI as an open source contributor, joined Ghost's platform team ten years later, and one of his first jobs is to retire his creation. Jannis and Austin talk Docker, technical debt, getting a PR reviewed, AI-found security bugs, and what Ghost 7.0 is meant to fix.
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  What we brought back from Indiecon 17.09.2026 49min

  Jannis, Mariia and Christine sit in one room and unpack the weekend Magic Pages spent at Indiecon, the independent publishing festival in Hamburg: the booth that politely confused people, the workshops, the little magazine, and why the answer to community is doing things that don't scale.
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  Can you be friends with your competitor? 03.09.2026 1godz 8min

  Jannis sits down with his competitor and friend, Murat Çorlu of Synaps Media − a calmer, deliberately small managed Ghost host. They talk growing the Ghost market instead of fighting over it, the theme editor Murat open-sourced (Ghost later shipped its own), i18n gaps, and hosting solo.
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  Ghost memberships beyond Stripe 20.08.2026 40min

  André, founder of PayGlue, joins Jannis on connecting Ghost memberships to Stripe alternatives — Polar, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Creem and more. Merchant-of-record tax, a replaceable paywall, pay-what-you-want, trust through open source, and why sustainable tools skip the free tier.
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  Building a Ghost site with no Ghost experience 06.08.2026 30min

  Mark Alexander − the Melbourne writer behind Tech That Fits − joins Jannis on judging gadgets by whether they earn their place in a small home, choosing Ghost over Webflow and WordPress, building a first custom theme with Fantasma, and reaching readers via Google and Apple News.
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  A Web Hosting Company at a Print Festival 23.07.2026 21min

  Why is Magic Pages, a Ghost hosting company, sponsoring IndieCon — an independent print festival in Hamburg? A solo episode on the shared fight for ownership, what we're bringing (a Ghost workshop, a small magazine, a dinner), and how you can win a ticket.
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  Better Search and Analytics for Ghost 09.07.2026 51min

  Chris Emunds — the solo developer behind Vellumine, an advanced search and analytics platform for Ghost — joins Jannis to talk about closing the gaps in Ghost's SodoSearch, semantic search with local LLMs, and why treating your day job as a superpower is the honest path to bootstrapping software.
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  Our Very First Customer 25.06.2026 41min

  Magic Pages' very first customer, Christine Trac, joins Jannis for the podcast's first in-person recording. They talk Twitter beginnings, Ghost vs Wix, life in Austria, and the email-deliverability tools small senders actually need.
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  What is Magic Pages? 11.06.2026 43min

  No script, no slides − just Jannis and the whole team, Mariia & Sviatoslav, on one deceptively simple question: What is Magic Pages? Support that isn't a ticket queue, being a “translator” for Ghost, and the people we actually build for.