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Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by refulgentis »

hamiltonians wrote: post #186
stereoradonc wrote: post #176

Substack is a pyramid scheme in terms of "payments" - I am sure they will start up a "search" for the newsletters and then paid advertisements. To all the HN regulars here - own your medium instead. Own your content. There's no need to stick to yet another VC funded "writing experience". Many potential readers will eventually hit a subscription fatigue. There are several proven strategies to monetise your content (an…

this makes no sense, ppl are paying to suport creators, like patreon

It absolutely makes sense to have those peoples money go to the creator instead of some to substack, some to the creator. Its a glorifed blog hosting service.

Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by mceoin »

stereoradonc wrote: post #176

Substack is a pyramid scheme in terms of "payments" - I am sure they will start up a "search" for the newsletters and then paid advertisements. To all the HN regulars here - own your medium instead. Own your content. There's no need to stick to yet another VC funded "writing experience". Many potential readers will eventually hit a subscription fatigue. There are several proven strategies to monetise your content (an…

Is there a question here?

Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by no_butterscotch »

cjbest wrote: post #76
native_samples wrote: post #19

Firstly - love love love Substack. It's so simple but it's so rapidly become a place where I do so much reading. I have a few questions (mostly not about the app though, I'll have to wait for Android support to try that). 1. How did you guys manage to attract writers? I know you have been signing fronting agreements. Superficially, Substack is a (fairly basic?) blogging platform + email + payment processing system. T…

2: We do have a strong philosophical stance on this. We think taking a strong stance in favor of freedom of the press is both the right thing to do, and critical to the success of our broader mission. We've written about this a few times, e.g. https://on.substack.com/p/substacks-view-of-content-moderati... and https://on.substack.com/p/society-has-a-trust-problem-more That is incidentally a big part of the answer for…

> We talk about this with folks we are hiring, and it helps people choose for themselves if the approach we take is something they are excited to get behind.

I'm interested in hearing more, I recently had a Substack recruiter reach out to me and was curious about this because I work at a tech company w/ some internal "activists" (I don't consider them to be activists).

How would you talk about it with them while hiring? It seems like you might need to bring up uncomfortable (and potentially risky) things like politics (?) during an interview?

What to do if your employees start doing walkouts or what not? At the company I work for this happened. A lot of people don't feel comfortable standing up to the ones who are most vocal about cancel-culture (if you disagree with them you may be labeled and considered a "fascist" (ugh) or even worse a "nazi" and your career impacted), I find that most people just stay silent in the face of this and the organizers of these movements seem to rule the roost in the workplace.

Great job either way I'm a Substack supporter! :thumbsup:

Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by no_butterscotch »

aozgaa wrote: post #161
sachinmonga wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As a user I don't mind an app from a technical perspective. It gives me more options! But what are the things the app can do that the web cannot? A simple but important one: being able to get a notification on your phone when a new post lands in your inbox. There are lots of subtle little things around readability, scroll performance, etc. too. There are also a decent number of Podcasts on Substack now, and listeni…

How is this different from getting a notification in gmail?

That would be for any and all emails?

I turn off gmail notifications. I suppose some of their readers might want to know when the Substacks they subscribe to have new content but don't want to know when they're getting new spam.

Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by Lascaille »

mceoin wrote: post #193
stereoradonc wrote: post #176

Substack is a pyramid scheme in terms of "payments" - I am sure they will start up a "search" for the newsletters and then paid advertisements. To all the HN regulars here - own your medium instead. Own your content. There's no need to stick to yet another VC funded "writing experience". Many potential readers will eventually hit a subscription fatigue. There are several proven strategies to monetise your content (an…

Is there a question here?

Just seemed like good advice to me. Did you interpret it as a question? What caused you to interpret it that way?

Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by cgati »

syshum wrote: post #182
stereoradonc wrote: post #176

Substack is a pyramid scheme in terms of "payments" - I am sure they will start up a "search" for the newsletters and then paid advertisements. To all the HN regulars here - own your medium instead. Own your content. There's no need to stick to yet another VC funded "writing experience". Many potential readers will eventually hit a subscription fatigue. There are several proven strategies to monetise your content (an…

I do not know enough about substack to comment here but to claim medium is some vestige of virtue in the space is laughable if you want to "own your content" self host, do not use any of these platforms.

I think you'll find you misread the post you're replying to and you're in agreement on owning your content.

Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by alisonatwork »

Are there any plans to allow readers/subscribers to decouple identities between different newsletters? Or, asked a different way, will the app allow you to "subscribe" to newsletters anonymously?

I find myself very reluctant to sign up for new newsletters on Substack now because my identity is shared across all newsletters, so I feel I can no longer keep my interests separated. To be clear: after commenting on one newsletter, it becomes impossible to comment on any other newsletter without compromising my privacy. I am not certain because I do not publish myself, but I worry that writers might have an insight into other newsletters I have subscribed to as well. I would really like to have an anonymous reading (if not commenting) mode, without having to manually open an in-private tab and only be able to view the public posts of whoever's newsletter I am trying to read.

Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by Lascaille »

cheeze wrote: post #184
stereoradonc wrote: post #176

Substack is a pyramid scheme in terms of "payments" - I am sure they will start up a "search" for the newsletters and then paid advertisements. To all the HN regulars here - own your medium instead. Own your content. There's no need to stick to yet another VC funded "writing experience". Many potential readers will eventually hit a subscription fatigue. There are several proven strategies to monetise your content (an…

So uhh... Care to elaborate rather than just flaming in the founders thread? What is the question you're asking here? I downvoted you for being rude.

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