Substack gets competition, and one that doesn’t take 10%. Substack really needs to show a network effect.
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Absolutely zero communication of that from them.
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Competition is always good. Looks similar, but more advanced than .
Substack needs to provide value through its platform to justify fees. In my case, they absolutely do so far - my newsletter would have grown much less without e.g. recommendations.
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Something happened in the middle of April 2022 with my newsletter. It started to grow ~3x the pace as before (!!).
Some articles were widely read at that time, and @SubstackInc launched recommendations right then (since: received ~21K, sent ~30K signups).
Pretty incredible.
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appreciate the shoutout
worth noting we’ve only been live for 6 months and have a lot more coming over the next few months 🫡
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Looks cool. Where does Beehiiv thrive? Why choose this over other options?
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It does have network effects. It launched its Recommendations feature which has played a big role in driving subscribers to Substack writers.
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