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Lol, I could host all of substack as static html pages on a $20/mo linode instance. Embarrassing.
by juanbyrge 4y ago
Lol, I could host all of substack as static html pages on a $20/mo linode instance. Embarrassing.
- _Algernon_ 4y agoDoubt you could do that in a way where you'd attract users at the level of Substack.
- miiiiiike 4y agoYou could if you gave people $400-500k to move over.
- nicky0 4y agoIf my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bike.
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- ScottyAdams0 4y agoThey only pay $3500 and it comes with a big NDA.
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- miiiiiike 4y agoThey were fronting people 250k+ for their first year. IIRC
- ScottyAdams0 4y agoUmm maybe it’s the fact substack is outright paying for traffic and lying about it? It’s just their own paid influencers who use it.
- naasking 4y agoWhere are they lying about it? They openly admit to paying writers. And no, it's not "just" their influencers using it.
- Veen 4y agoPerhaps I'm a bit old-fashioned, but paying writers to write doesn't seem like a particularly nefarious activity to me. I mean, I believe the NYT does it too, and a few other organizations.
- MontyCarloHall 4y agoEveryone knows it is trivial to host a read-only static website with the traffic of Substack. It’s the read/write part that gets you.