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My main business is sending news in a variety of programming niches on a weekly basis via e-mail to over 170k subscribers.. and it's a successful and growing bu

My main business is sending news in a variety of programming niches on a weekly basis via e-mail to over 170k subscribers.. and it's a successful and growing business (at least by historical standards, though not VC/SV ones - six figure net profits). I would agree with most of what it said in this post.

keithpeter 13y ago
Niches. I'd pay a small monthly fee to have news relevant to my niche clipped, summarised and sent to me.
- xux 13y ago
  What niche, if you don't mind sharing?
  - keithpeter 13y ago
    UK education.
- aronvox 13y ago
  Check out http://www.klipperapp.com. http://www.klipperapp.com.. you can feed in sources and get 'klipped' articles.
- Concours 13y ago
  We help people do this with our service: https://www.feedsapi.org/ https://www.feedsapi.org/ , maybe it's exactly what you are looking for. It works not only with email but with Evernote, Instapaper and rss readers + it clips the full article content.
stronglikedan 13y ago
I miss Coder Weekly, and your service sounds very similar, but without the niche aspect. Where do I sign up? EDIT: Thanks. Subbed.
- petercooper 13y ago
  See https://cooperpress.com/ https://cooperpress.com/ - things like JavaScript Weekly, Ruby Weekly, etc. We launched something similar to Coder Weekly called StatusCode - http://statuscode.org/ http://statuscode.org/ - at about the same time as them but it's on a temporary hiatus. You can see a recent issue at http://statuscode.org/archive/50.html http://statuscode.org/archive/50.html though.
  - ultimatedelman 13y ago
    i subscribe to nearly all of these and can vouch for them being a welcome sight in my inbox. sure, a lot of the links are HN repeats, but some are not :)
    - petercooper 13y ago
      Thanks! I should note HN is not a big source for us but due to the time lag involved with weekly publication (about 50% is e-mailed in), a lot of stuff ends up on HN more quickly. That said, I see at least one item a week that hits HN an hour or two after us, and occasionally stuff that even hits HN months after we covered it ;-) So it's swings and roundabouts.
      - dshanahan 13y ago
        Really interested in your niche publishing - any blog posts or interviews about how it all got started? Would find that really fascinating. Thanks.
      - e12e 13y ago
        It only takes one reader to agree with you that something is interesting for it to end up on HN after all :-) I wouldn't worry about that -- most of the really interesting (hacking/programming) stuff on HN isn't time sensitive. A tutorial/intro on <lang/stack/arch/design> that's great today, will be great in a year as well.

keithpeter 13y ago

Niches. I'd pay a small monthly fee to have news relevant to my niche clipped, summarised and sent to me.

xux 13y ago
What niche, if you don't mind sharing?
- keithpeter 13y ago
  UK education.
aronvox 13y ago
Check out http://www.klipperapp.com. http://www.klipperapp.com.. you can feed in sources and get 'klipped' articles.
Concours 13y ago
We help people do this with our service: https://www.feedsapi.org/ https://www.feedsapi.org/ , maybe it's exactly what you are looking for. It works not only with email but with Evernote, Instapaper and rss readers + it clips the full article content.

stronglikedan 13y ago

I miss Coder Weekly, and your service sounds very similar, but without the niche aspect. Where do I sign up? EDIT: Thanks. Subbed.

petercooper 13y ago
See https://cooperpress.com/ https://cooperpress.com/ - things like JavaScript Weekly, Ruby Weekly, etc. We launched something similar to Coder Weekly called StatusCode - http://statuscode.org/ http://statuscode.org/ - at about the same time as them but it's on a temporary hiatus. You can see a recent issue at http://statuscode.org/archive/50.html http://statuscode.org/archive/50.html though.
- ultimatedelman 13y ago
  i subscribe to nearly all of these and can vouch for them being a welcome sight in my inbox. sure, a lot of the links are HN repeats, but some are not :)
  - petercooper 13y ago
    Thanks! I should note HN is not a big source for us but due to the time lag involved with weekly publication (about 50% is e-mailed in), a lot of stuff ends up on HN more quickly. That said, I see at least one item a week that hits HN an hour or two after us, and occasionally stuff that even hits HN months after we covered it ;-) So it's swings and roundabouts.
    - dshanahan 13y ago
      Really interested in your niche publishing - any blog posts or interviews about how it all got started? Would find that really fascinating. Thanks.
    - e12e 13y ago
      It only takes one reader to agree with you that something is interesting for it to end up on HN after all :-) I wouldn't worry about that -- most of the really interesting (hacking/programming) stuff on HN isn't time sensitive. A tutorial/intro on <lang/stack/arch/design> that's great today, will be great in a year as well.