(IMO) Substack is not geared more for a tech-focused audience; the difference between it and Medium is that Substack is focused on newsletters, not blogging, an

(IMO) Substack is not geared more for a tech-focused audience; the difference between it and Medium is that Substack is focused on newsletters, not blogging, and was always laser-focused on monetizing an audience. (That aspect of Medium wasn't there from the start, and Medium has thrown a lot of monetizing strategies at the wall to see if they'd stick.) Substack is arguably competing as much with Patreon as it is with Medium.