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   by cjbest 9y ago

   We are a Stack for Subscription publishing.
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   by cjbest 9y ago

   Thanks! We’ve had (paying, highly engaged) users report that they like there is nothing to think about. One thing in future that’s really exciting to us is the idea of building community, and using the paid barrier as a way to solve a whole
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   by cjbest 9y ago

   Thanks, that’s a good idea. The way we try to handle that now is by having an option for writers to write free posts - which are visible to anybody, and get emailed to non-paying subscribers. That way you can get a sense of the writing befo
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   by cjbest 9y ago

   Ahh thanks. I hope you don’t mind if we boot that one. How do you foresee sub domains being a problem otherwise?
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   by cjbest 9y ago

   One click. The way we see it, you have a direct trusted relationship with your subscribers. We let you import them so it’s only fair :)
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   by cjbest 9y ago

   True, and we hope that if we do a good enough job we can provide more value for the 10% than you get by switching even as you grow. We’ve seen writers doing this report that they spend up to 40% of their time messing around with the platfor
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   by cjbest 9y ago

   Great, thank you. This highlights one of my favorite things about the newsletter format: sometimes it can be worth more to you to get less content. If the goal is to stay informed, a writer that can do it in a shorter, less frequent email
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   by cjbest 9y ago

   Oh awesome! I see > Stay well-informed about the world each week with clear and concise summaries of important news ... That sounds like an exactly perfect fit for Substack. We've seen that if you have a committed newsletter followi
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   by cjbest 9y ago

   Thanks! That's a great idea, especially now that people can create lots of these. I wonder what would be the ideal format for that? It could give you a list of newsletters and their descriptions, with some popularity signals or somethi
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    Launch HN: Substack (YC W18): Paid email newsletters made simple

    124 points by cjbest 9y ago|88 comments
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    by cjbest 9y ago

    Maybe part of what makes a good family offers is encouragement/tendency to work hard and make good choices? Worth thinking about what a level playing field really looks like.
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    by cjbest 11y ago

    >> An investor shouldn't be judging you based on the judgement of another investor. Hah! You're right of course, but this happens all. the. time. Investors and VCs are far from immune to herd mentality.
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    by cjbest 12y ago

    +1 for "lint errors fail the build" If you also add "and any coding style things you care about, you have to make the linter check for", then you don't have to waste any time on that stuff in the pull request.