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I really want to get back into blogging (for many years starting in 2000 I ran a somewhat popular blog called Fuckedcompany.com around (google it if you're in y
by pud 16y ago
I really want to get back into blogging (for many years starting in 2000 I ran a somewhat popular blog called Fuckedcompany.com around (google it if you're in your 20's)) and it was fun but a full-time job.
Unless you're planning on making blogging your full time job, you're not going to build an audience, which means nobody will see any of your subsequent blog entries.
Twitter helps...because even if I don't tweet all month, my followers are still there. But it seems to me that having an email newsletter is still the best solution for someone in my position.
Sure, we're all already buried under an avalanche of email, and half of it goes into the spam folder. Nevertheless, when I have a large number of email addresses from folks who trust me and want to hear what I've got to say, I'd argue I have the most direct line to them than any other method of publishing.
So I spent a lazy rainy Sunday afternoon today building this:
http://tinyletter.com http://tinyletter.com
Thoughts?
- happybuy 16y agoWow... I think you undersell your previous blog. Being old enough to remember I think that Fuckedcompany.com was the Techcrunch of its time. Loved to read that site - it brought a sense of reality to the startup/web space which is probably still required to this day. For tinyletter, I like the idea however the one thing I would note is that it doesn't actually provide any sample of the type of newsletter that it would produce. For instance, what is the value of using this site as opposed to simply having a Google spreadsheet form to collect subscribers and sending the emails using Outlook? Does it provide HTML templates to easily produce structured newsletters or does it only provide a big text field to type the newsletter? I'd be hesitant to sign-up without seeing at least sample visual of a newsletter that would be produced with the system.
- pud 16y agoThanks for the kind words about FC... those were fun days...at least for me :-) Regarding TinyLetter, I suppose it automates that process were you might collect addresses with Google and sending with Outlook. Do this to see what they look like: Go through the short sign up process. Then subscribe to your own newsletter. Rhen click "Write a newsletter." Then write something, and click "preview" Wow that sounds complicated -- trust me it's not. But you make a good point...there should be a way for people to get an example newsletter in the mail so that they know what they look like. Thanks! Philip
- dansingerman 16y agoI'd love it if one day Michael Arrington came on here talking about how Techcrunch was once a 'somewhat popular blog'
- kgtm 16y agoAnd i remember that it was even mentioned in the movie August, [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470679/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470679/ ]! The employees of the startup portrayed are being caught by the founder slacking off there, while the company is sinking as the dot com downhill commences. A rather good film, despite its 5,4 rating on IMDB...
- metachris 16y agoI'd love to see more infos about the service you are providing, in particular how you handle sending the emails from a technical/deliverability perspective. Reliable mail delivery will be a major challenge -- what steps did do you take to ensure my mails will reach the recipients?
- iworkforthem 16y agoIt's nice and all. Er... isn't just quite similar to http://letter.ly/ http://letter.ly/ ? There's a subscription option to it with letter.ly ...
- michaelchisari 16y agoYou ran FC? That was one of my favorite blogs, for some reason it helped me a lot through my post-dot-com bubble depression.