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I've often wondered how you feel when you see other newsletters that use the "$TECH Weekly" name format. I know that in the history of the world it's not unique
by mprev 10y ago
I've often wondered how you feel when you see other newsletters that use the "$TECH Weekly" name format. I know that in the history of the world it's not unique but, in recent years, it has become likely that a newsletter with that sort of name might be a Cooper Press publication.
- petercooper 10y agoMostly okay. I was on the leading edge of a wave that was going to happen anyway, and the term is relatively generic. As long as someone doesn't start one with the same name as any of ours, I'm good. Many of the people behind other * Weekly dev newsletters have become good acquaintances. We have a rebrand in the works, however, as due to our reluctance to heavily promote or send arbitrary emails to subscribers, we have a lot of subscribers who don't know about the other publications.. and our stable is not very cohesive branding wise. This will be resolved by the end of the year :-)
- stevekemp 10y agoThere are always trends in naming, especially when it comes to spamming - err, I meant to say growth hacking. Scroll back over Hacker News over a few months and you can spot the moment when people caught on that putting "Machine Learning" in their titles got clicks, regardless of how valid that was. "$TECH weekly" is a similar level of branding to all those lists of projects which are "curated". Seriously search past submissions for "A curated list of ..". They're cookie-cutter posts that could probably be generated by machine-learning!
- pryelluw 10y agoIt does get insane. I saw a newsletter that sold itself as a "hand curated list of hand curated newsletters". Almost emailed the "curator" to ask WTF.