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Hey, thanks so much for the feedback! We're also trying to find the "hook" that would make such a site more useful to newsletter readers. For individual artic
by kftlife 6y ago
Hey, thanks so much for the feedback!
We're also trying to find the "hook" that would make such a site more useful to newsletter readers.
For individual articles, do you find sites like Hacker News or Reddit good for that purpose? I think there are certain authors whose writing is consistently good, and those are the ones we're trying to identify -- curious what you think.
- michael_vo 6y agoHacker news is a biased crowdsourced recommendation system for individual articles. It skews towards the interests of a programmer from the bay area. There's probably 5 articles a day I enjoy reading from hacker news. There's a lot of misses too - how often do we click on a hacker news link and instantly close it? I looked into scraping substack to find individual writers and highly rated ones (through subscriber counts). There's some good writers like Heated by Emily Atkin. Though - do I want to read climate change articles all the time? I found that for some newsletters I lost interest after some time or some topics didn't interest me. Reddit is also a crowdsourced recommendation system with its subreddits. I find some subreddits good like r/dataisbeautiful. I found this subreddit through a referral from a friend. People use twitter to ask for good newsletters as well.