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I did the same thing right from the start with my newsletter* — referral engine, editor, archives, mail stuff, etc. Nothing worse than building a massive audien
by marban 6y ago
I did the same thing right from the start with my newsletter* — referral engine, editor, archives, mail stuff, etc. Nothing worse than building a massive audience on the back of substack & co.
* https://briefingday.com https://briefingday.com
- toomuchtodo 6y agoHave a blog post or other documentation on your endeavors to own your destiny to share with other content creators? I think there's enormous value in communicating to those folks the value prop of what you describe.
- marban 6y agoI guess your handle would be the reason why not — but will consider it ;)
- toomuchtodo 6y agoI feel you :) Appreciate it!
- chrisweekly 6y ago+1 for this! GP wrote "Nothing worse than building a massive audience on the back of substack & co." and I'd value a "here's why, and (esp) HOW to avoid that route"
- kmf 6y agoNot parent commenter, but Ghost is a pretty great way to “own your stack” - custom domain, software is open-source, supports paid memberships, and it can send blog posts as newsletters. (No association with Ghost either - just a happy user) I wrote a blog post on how to accomplish a Stratechery-style newsletter/blog with paid memberships on my blog[1] — you can hook into Zapier so there’s lots of opportunity to build a full community around Ghost’s built-in membership system, in case you want to send Slack invites, add them to a Mailchimp newsletter, etc. [1]: https://www.mailinglisthackers.com/creating-a-member-supported-blog-using-ghost-and-stripe/ https://www.mailinglisthackers.com/creating-a-member-support...