Can you copy-paste yourself to success?
A few days ago I scrolled Reddit. A post on the r/Ghost subreddit popped up – and a pretty common question was asked: what Ghost CMS hosting do people recommend? Now, running a Ghost CMS hosting serv…
MRR goes brr
So, it happened. Magic Pages just hit the $1,000 MRR milestone! Or, for those of you who haven't been indoctrinated by the Twitter hustle culture: $1,000 in Monthly Recurring Revenue. Naturally,…
An Apple a day...
"Wow, you're getting rid of your last Apple device?" – that's what my wife asked me the other day, when I told her about my plan. Well, the word "plan" is maybe a bit much…
Move Slow and Don't F****** Break Things
I have worked in start-ups in Berlin for nearly 6 years. One sentence I heard too many times was "Move fast and break things". Ughhh. I have really grown to hate that sentiment. It was Fac…
Going full circle
Remember the good old days? When you wouldn't just buy an off-the-shelf MacBook, but carefully assembled your computer hardware? Waiting for all the components to arrive, to then sit on the floor…
When Plans Pan Out
Back in March and April, there were some severe outages on Magic Pages. Some led to a downtime of 2-3 hours. That was everything but good. Maybe you remember, I took some time to explore ways to avoi…
I Decided Against the Easy Route for My Business
A few days ago, I made a decision that will have a lasting impact on – at least – the next five years of my business. It's a decision that might not seem logical at first – something most online g…
Life, the Universe and Everything
No, this will not be a book review. To be fair, I haven't even read (=listened to the audiobook) Douglas Adams's third book in the "trilogy of five". But, it was a very fitting titl…
I accidentally created the fastest Ghost CMS hosting
…but can I replicate that on scale? (Spoiler: probably not – but it's been a fun experiment 😉) Lately, I have been working a lot on the Magic Pages infrastructure. The old server got too small.…
The art of verschlimmbessern
Back in April, I started implementing BunnyCDN in Magic Pages. It took me over a month to jump through many different hoops and the development was quite nerve wracking. BunnyCDN is a content deliver…
My secret SaaS gold mine
One and a half years ago, I would have never believed that I would be running a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business. In fact, I was quite annoyed with all the hype that was generated around them. &…
Playing hide and seek with (a) Ghost – running Ghost CMS in a cluster
Yes. Tech is humbling. And a quick note before we start: this will be technical. The tl;dr: 🙃I spent a month figuring out a technical solution for Magic Pages and put it live for some of my custome…