quietmoneySynapsmedia
Managed hosting for Ghost blogs and newsletters. Fully managed service for Ghost publications: servers, updates, backups, email setup, domain management and multi-site management, cheaper than Ghost(Pro), with servers in the EU.
Dutch indie devOne-line growth story, compiled by us from public sources; speculation is marked separately below.
Revenue over time
Real payments synced by TrustMRR, in USD, by calendar month, renewals included.
- MRR
- $1,386
- Revenue, last 30 days
- $1,867
- All-time revenue
- $18,532
- Active subscriptions
- 218
- Payments via
- Stripe
- Source
- TrustMRR, synced from the founder's payment account
1. Productwhat it sells, to whom, and how it charges
- Product
- Managed hosting for Ghost blogs and newsletters. Fully managed service for Ghost publications: servers, updates, backups, email setup, domain management and multi-site management, cheaper than Ghost(Pro), with servers in the EU.
- Users
- Individual creators and small teams who want to use Ghost for a blog, newsletter or paid-subscription site but do not want to run servers themselves and find Ghost(Pro) expensive
- Positioning
- A cheaper and more flexible third-party host alternative to Ghost's official hosting (from €7/month billed annually, with multi-site, subdirectory install and online theme editing), run by an individual developer who answers questions personally.
- Pricing
- Basic €7/month billed annually (list price €9); Premium €14.5/month billed annually (list price €18); Complete Search add-on €5/month; 14-day free trial, no credit card; prices exclude VAT Billing: subscription Free tier: no Source: Homepage
- Prices on site
- €7.00/mo Basic billed yearly (€9.00/mo list); €14.50/mo Premium billed yearly (€18.00/mo list); €5.00/mo or €48.00/yr Complete Search add-on; 10K newsletter credits €6.00; 100K newsletter credits €54.00; from €5.50/mo on 3-year billing; prices exclude VAT
- Team
- small team
“No referral or share mechanic; 'People using Synaps Media' section lists customer sites; footer GitHub link with no open-source claim.”Quote from the site
2. Channelswhere new users come from and what the traffic looks like
New-user source: SEO (Non-brand search). Similarweb 2026-09: the top channel is direct visits at 39.4%, organic search about 45%, referral about 9%; Similarweb captured only 3 brand keywords (synaps media, sinapsy mídia ghost and so on), a very small data volume. The site lists social accounts on Fediverse, Bluesky, Reddit, X, YouTube and LinkedIn, has no referral or affiliate mechanism, and no blog but a Changelog and Tips. On 2025-02-03 the founder posted a Show HN (5 points, 0 comments); on 2026-07-28 a user on HN recommended it unprompted under a Substack migration topic. New users are presumed to come mainly from people searching 'Ghost hosting' and 'Ghost(Pro) alternative' and from word of mouth on the Ghost forum; existing users stay because of the stickiness of a hosting migration, and TrustMRR shows 218 subscriptions (Speculation).
Last month's traffic sources
Top channel measured by Similarweb, others estimated by rank
Five-class attribution
| Attributable new users, last month | Share |
|---|---|
| SEO | 15% |
| Other | 85% |
Direct + brand search 70%. Direct and brand search count as viral only when the site shows sharing mechanics; the largest share wins, under 5% means Other.
Countries
| Country | Share of visits |
|---|---|
| United States | 95.82% |
| India | 4.18% |
Language
English
Keywords
3 keywords · brand ~70% · organic 100% / paid 0%
| Similarweb top 5 keywords |
|---|
| sinapsy mídia ghost |
| synaps media |
| synapse media |
Non-brand queries: sinapsy mídia ghost
Referrer categories
| Category | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| Computers Electronics and Technology - Other | 13.82% |
Site metrics (Similarweb, last month)
- Visits MoM
- +184.7%
- Country rank
- United States #2801730
- Bounce rate
- 61.82%
- Pages / visit
- 2.90
- Visit duration
- 00:03:10
- Top 3 channels
- Direct › Organic Search › Referrals (top channel 39.36%)
3. Growth pathhow the first users arrived and what kept it growing
Classification
Basics
Timeline
Growth loop
Revenue and scale clues
Confidence and gaps
Other sites that started via “Piggyback on a platform”
Similar sitessame category, also growing via SEO
FAQ
How much revenue does Synapsmedia make per month?
About $1,742 last month (real payments synced by TrustMRR), #435 of 563 TrustMRR sites; the month before was $2,361.
Where do Synapsmedia's new users come from?
New-user source: SEO (Non-brand search). New users mostly come from need-based searches Similarweb 2026-09: the top channel is direct visits at 39.4%, organic search about 45%, referral about 9%; Similarweb captured only 3 brand keywords (synaps media, sinapsy mídia ghost and so on), a very small data volume. The site lists social accounts on Fediverse, Bluesky, Reddit, X, YouTube and LinkedIn, has no referral or affiliate mechanism, and no blog but a Changelog and Tips. On 2025-02-03 the founder posted a Show HN (5 points, 0 comments); on 2026-07-28 a user on HN recommended it unprompted under a Substack migration topic. New users are presumed to come mainly from people searching 'Ghost hosting' and 'Ghost(Pro) alternative' and from word of mouth on the Ghost forum; existing users stay because of the stickiness of a hosting migration, and TrustMRR shows 218 subscriptions (Speculation).
How much does Synapsmedia cost?
Basic €7/month billed annually (list price €9); Premium €14.5/month billed annually (list price €18); Complete Search add-on €5/month; 14-day free trial, no credit card; prices exclude VAT
Dossier confidence: medium. Parts 1 and 2 come from reading the site and Similarweb data; part 3 from public reporting, founder posts, Wayback snapshots, WHOIS and similar, with speculation marked.
The numbers: revenue comes from TrustMRR: real payments synced automatically from the founder's Stripe or other payment account, summed by calendar month, renewals included, in USD. Site visits come from the Similarweb public page; where it shows none, they are estimated from global rank or the TrustMRR payment count, as noted on the page.
Data through last month. Page updated 2026-10-31.