Probably like Patreon, they expect that creators are bringing an existing fan community with them. I've never discovered creators through Patreon, but I've foun

Probably like Patreon, they expect that creators are bringing an existing fan community with them. I've never discovered creators through Patreon, but I've found countless creators elsewhere and then looked at their Patreon page to see what they were working on/funding. As an email newsletter service, this is particularly typical. That said, these are some pretty neat newsletters so now I do find myself wanting to discover more of them. I see an opportunity for something like one of those "Awesome list" Github repos that lists neat Substack newsletters people have found. And honestly that kind of feels more "wholesome" to me than official curation since it's communicating one person's taste (or a curated group's taste) rather than introducing potential incentives for newsletter writers to try to game some system for publicity. This seems like a good start. ;)