Is Substack a good option? Is it Beehiiv? Something else?
If you're aware of the pros-cons, it'd be super helpful. Thanks!
Ask HN: What's the best place to start a newsletter?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the best place to start a newsletter?
#2What's you goal with the newsletter? Talk about cool things? Make Money?
As a reader I hate substack because it's so damn pushy about signing up and paying for subscription. As a creator, I guess that drives your revenue.
Imho, everyone is doing newsletters now and it's a completely overcrowded field. I recently unsubscribed from almost all newsletters, because most provided little to no value for me. Sure, having 10k subscribers is fine but how many of them actually read it?
Re: Ask HN: What's the best place to start a newsletter?
#3What's you goal with the newsletter? Talk about cool things? Make Money? As a reader I hate substack because it's so damn pushy about signing up and paying for subscription. As a creator, I guess that drives your revenue. Imho, everyone is doing newsletters now and it's a completely overcrowded field. I recently unsubscribed from almost all newsletters, because most provided little to no value for me. Sure, having 10…
Talking about cool things in a little more depth than social posts.
And yes, I agree; it is getting too crowded :(
Re: Ask HN: What's the best place to start a newsletter?
#4What's you goal with the newsletter? Talk about cool things? Make Money? As a reader I hate substack because it's so damn pushy about signing up and paying for subscription. As a creator, I guess that drives your revenue. Imho, everyone is doing newsletters now and it's a completely overcrowded field. I recently unsubscribed from almost all newsletters, because most provided little to no value for me. Sure, having 10…
Everyone is writing software too, but that doesn't stop us from making money :)
Re: Ask HN: What's the best place to start a newsletter?
#5What's you goal with the newsletter? Talk about cool things? Make Money? As a reader I hate substack because it's so damn pushy about signing up and paying for subscription. As a creator, I guess that drives your revenue. Imho, everyone is doing newsletters now and it's a completely overcrowded field. I recently unsubscribed from almost all newsletters, because most provided little to no value for me. Sure, having 10…
Everyone is writing software too, but that doesn't stop us from making money :)
Not denying that ;) and i am sure there is still money to be made and that‘s why I was asking for the reason ;)
Re: Ask HN: What's the best place to start a newsletter?
#6What's you goal with the newsletter? Talk about cool things? Make Money? As a reader I hate substack because it's so damn pushy about signing up and paying for subscription. As a creator, I guess that drives your revenue. Imho, everyone is doing newsletters now and it's a completely overcrowded field. I recently unsubscribed from almost all newsletters, because most provided little to no value for me. Sure, having 10…
Talking about cool things in a little more depth than social posts. And yes, I agree; it is getting too crowded :(
Mh substack, medium, hackernoon. Many places, all sinilar and all not that great for that :/
Re: Ask HN: What's the best place to start a newsletter?
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Talking about cool things in a little more depth than social posts. And yes, I agree; it is getting too crowded :(
Mh substack, medium, hackernoon. Many places, all sinilar and all not that great for that :/
Eventually making money from something you enjoy doing is a win-win. But starting off somewhere to later restart elsewhere is gonna be painful.
Substack apparently has (or had?) a good reputation, but I read people switching to other platforms, and started doubting it.
Gotta look up hackernoon. Thanks :)
Re: Ask HN: What's the best place to start a newsletter?
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mh substack, medium, hackernoon. Many places, all sinilar and all not that great for that :/
Eventually making money from something you enjoy doing is a win-win. But starting off somewhere to later restart elsewhere is gonna be painful. Substack apparently has (or had?) a good reputation, but I read people switching to other platforms, and started doubting it. Gotta look up hackernoon. Thanks :)
I am kind of in the same boat as you. I just started a blog on my personal website jut I am looking to monetize at some point in time. I don‘t lile substack because it harasses the reader too much. Hackernoon has a really nerdy vibe to it.
I think managing the newsletter yourself is really the best way to go and then talk about it on social media. My main problem is that once you want to make money with it everything becomes less enjoyable. Gotta start thinking about your funnel, your landing page, etc.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best place to start a newsletter?
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eventually making money from something you enjoy doing is a win-win. But starting off somewhere to later restart elsewhere is gonna be painful. Substack apparently has (or had?) a good reputation, but I read people switching to other platforms, and started doubting it. Gotta look up hackernoon. Thanks :)
I am kind of in the same boat as you. I just started a blog on my personal website jut I am looking to monetize at some point in time. I don‘t lile substack because it harasses the reader too much. Hackernoon has a really nerdy vibe to it. I think managing the newsletter yourself is really the best way to go and then talk about it on social media. My main problem is that once you want to make money with it everything…
Have you heard of beehiiv? It's apparently quite creator focused.
About the money-making aspect, it seems like a later stage thing atm. But yes, I get where you're coming from.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best place to start a newsletter?
#10I just recently went through this decision process. My aim is to write code and math oriented posts so I need good support for nice syntax highlighting (at least colored) and mathjax (preferable) or katex. Substack is the most popular newsletter platform but fails at these two criteria. I love how math and syntax highlighting (plus numerous other features) work in MkDocs Material, which recently added a Blog plugin.
I wanted to combine the best of both: Substack as an amazing email social network, and MkDocs Material’s awesome look. So I’ve gone with using Substack as the core platform which I use to manage subscribers, and use it to post either math/code-free posts or a short teasers pointing to my main blog site on MkDocs Material when I need to show math/code