Morning Brew went from college newsletter to $75M in 5 years • Hacker News Board

Re: Morning Brew went from college newsletter to $75M in 5 years

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Post by dsaavy » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 4:47 PM UTC

cavalcade119 wrote: post #9

A video recently went viral of David Bowie in 1999 saying that the internet was going to be the future. We're at a similar place with newsletters - a frontier that is on the verge of exploding. I run Thinking About Things [0], a simple newsletter that is a single link every other day to something interesting. The response has been astonishing - it's gotten thousands of subscribers in a single year with no marketing.…

Love your newsletter! It's the only thing I've found that curates diverse topics and viewpoints that authors written thoughtfully about. Thank you and keep it up!

Re: Morning Brew went from college newsletter to $75M in 5 years

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Post by peter_d_sherman » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 5:27 PM UTC

It seems like there's a market here...

I envision a future "news email" where stories are curated by AI, where all of the parameters (and I mean absolutely all of the parameters) of that news email are completely user-customizable...

I'm sure there are already services like this -- but in my opinion, like a search engine, these services can always be done better, one way or another, in some aspect or some other aspect...

In other words -- there's a lot of room in that market...

Re: Morning Brew went from college newsletter to $75M in 5 years

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Post by codethief » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 5:53 PM UTC

alex_g wrote: post #57

k3liutZu wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not have both? You send your newsletter, but show the contents in a blog post format as well.

Yeah this the standard approach, I don’t know of many newsletters that don’t make their writing available elsewhere.

I do. In my experience a lot of newsletters that are monetized in some way or another don't get published on the web.

Re: Morning Brew went from college newsletter to $75M in 5 years

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Post by swyx » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 8:03 PM UTC

nishparadox wrote: post #34

alex_g wrote: post #15

I thought the newsletter trend was a bit ridiculous, and then I started writing one. Writing a blog feels a bit like throwing messages into the wind, and tweeting sometimes feels like trying to start a conversation in the middle of a concert. Writing a newsletter and knowing there's a group of people who signed on to hear directly what you have to say feels so much more personal.

Exactly. I started one newsletter a year back...I felt quite relieved writing in public [0], especially when I quit all other social media. So, I just write for my own knowledge reinforcement. There will be times when I had to force myself to write. Eventually, I took a break (and still on a long hiatus). --- [0] - https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/

thanks for the shoutout :)