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(author here) i have spent years setting up my own blogstack (google swyxkit) so i know how to do it. but comments like this miss that Substack is an *email soc
by swyx 3y ago
(author here) i have spent years setting up my own blogstack (google swyxkit) so i know how to do it. but comments like this miss that Substack is an *email social network*, and as a newsletter author that is the one currency that loosely/poorly tracks my success and distribution (right down to ability to book quality guests). Substack is the best email network period right now (it is not a very good podcast host but I deal with its many annoyances because it does one thing all the other hosts cannot - auto email my subscribers when a new episode is out). The moment Hashnode improves I'll switch to it.
- d4rkp4ttern 3y agoYes Substack excels at being an email social network. So I’ve settled on the following workflow: 1. Make my blog using mkdocs material plus GitHub pages so it has all the nice code and math rendering features (plus things like admonitions and all the other nice things in mkdocs material). 2. On each post have a Substack signup button. 3. When I make a new post I want to send to subscribers, I manually create a short text-only teaser post on Substack (paragraph or two), with a link to my main blog that says “read more here”. I know this doesn’t auto-push new posts to subscribers but I am ok with that given that I won’t be writing more than once a week at most.