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There's dark mode in the app (iOS or Android) and in the web reader at substack.com (which you can see when you're logged in)

We're 100% focused on subscriptions, so we're unlikely to do this any time soon (or at all).

You can add any RSS feed to the app via reader.substack.com. As long as other newsletter providers support RSS, this should be no problem.

Yes! So far we have only three Cs and it's the three people who founded the company, so there's certainly room to move...

This is completely correct and me is duly chastened.

There's a giant universe of voices on Substack and I'm sure you'll find many who fit that description. A couple of ways to do so: Peruse the leaderboards at substack.com and in the…

Our strategy with Dillon is to keep sending him coffee mugs until he relents.

+++ to Bernard/The Kaka, and go Kiwis.

Hello, I (Hamish) will answer question #1 and leave the rest to my colleagues. I think what has driven our growth is a nice synthesis between the product, the business dev work (i.…

Yes. VP of Partnerships, VP of Communications, Head of Talent are all women at the top table.

If you're talking about getting Substack publications into your RSS reader, you can add /feed to the end of the relevant URL and then add that into your reader (e.g. https://sinoci…

That is very kind of you. Thank you.

Hi! This is Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi, the founders of Substack, with Sachin Monga, the head of product. Yesterday, we launched an iOS app for Substack, so you …

Thanks. We agree that there is definitely a promising market in those fields, too.

Clear and honest messaging to your readers about why you're doing this and what the benefits will be for them. Also: let's talk? You can email us at hello at substack dot com

Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, we've given a lot of thought to that.

Good questions. To answer the burn-out point: I think this is something writers have to take into account when they're starting their publishing businesses. Running a publication i…

As a writer who has worked with a number of great editors over the years: I agree. In the short-term, the best writers will recognize the value of having an editor and factor that …

Honestly, we are seeing a lot of strength in the crypto newsletters on Substack and we love them. There are plenty of genres that are out-performing some of them – from absurdist h…

To add to Chris's point (this is Hamish), I think Substack is just really simple. As a writer, I like the idea of not having to think about building and designing my own site, or c…

We’re Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie, the founders of Substack (YC W18), and Matt Taibbi, a journalist and author who has written four best-sellers and is a contributing editor to …

Fair question. The short answer is "hell yes." We already have writers on Substack making a lot of money with their newsletters. For instance, our first publisher, Bill Bishop, tol…

Thank you very much. Yes, good suggestion. We are thinking about how to do something like this. Any ideas?

Yes, thank you, we love this feedback. We are trying to keep the product as simple as possible.

Just as a link in the footer. Substack is also in the domain name, though. Thanks for the advice!