>I don’t understand why writers would use Substack to monetize their writing instead of a blog with a paid membership. Is it simply because no such product exis

>I don’t understand why writers would use Substack to monetize their writing instead of a blog with a paid membership. Is it simply because no such product exists? Because such a blog wont be as discoverable by an audience directly interested in writing and newsletters the size of Substack's. >One explanation would be that Substack provides discoverability of authors who readers would otherwise not notice. But I’m skeptical of this explanation, because my personal experience of discovering posts on Substack has rarely, if ever, been driven by Substack discoverability features. Most Substack sites I’ve found via link aggregators or Twitter. In my case, most Substack newsletters I've found them from their Substack "notes", Substack suggestions for other similar substacks, and references in oother Substack newsletters.