“Substack's long form content are honestly a lot of disjointed and self-indulgent streams of consciousness. I get it, it's supposed to be a Newsletter.”
“I've been writing casually (as in just for myself) for a few years but I wondered if I could potentially make a bit of cash from substack. My niche is sort of wellness, personal growth, values, psychology based stuff.”
“Substack has fewer options with tiers if you have them. If you have one tier offering, then Substack might be a good option. I left Patreon for a while and have used Substack, but I dislike how Substack does their tiers and am shifting back to Patreon.”
“My main complaint about Notes is that most of the people on Notes are other substack writers who are trying to get other people to read their substacks. Lots of writers, not a ton of passive lurkers just browsing.”
“I’ve really enjoyed reading on substack so far but i’m beginning to feel pretty confused and don’t really understand how to navigate it from a writers perspective.”
“I just posted my first Substack article! I know it will take more posting and time, but I was wondering if there is anything I can do to help my article gain traction?”
“And I absolutely hate how LinkedIn'y it is, everyone is on their best behaviour there because it's all a grift, and fishing for engagement. Which wouldn't even be that bad, if not for the fact that the only people reading all that, are just the same as you, hah.”
“How did you manage to direct people to Substack from social media? Platforms like Twitter or Facebook are suppressing links leading outiside their platforms.”
“FYI for my first six months I basically treated substack like another full time job - i.e the engaging and interacting portion of it - while posting the 1-2x a month as i said above. Just wanted to make sure i did mention that.”
“I have a substack account that uses blog@mydomain.com which was working fine but in the last week when I tried logging into substack, I never got any of the emailed login links (it uses that instead of a password because I never set up a password). Nothing in my spam folder either.”
“I feel a bit frustrated by the fact that my feed is stacked with "Dear Substack, connect me (...)", since we jointly decided to take ourselves too seriously and not to do that.”
“substack is, in a way, intended to be sued as a newsletter manager/creator, and for me it works that way, selectively. i prefer not to scroll like at all”
“Substack may have once been an "if you build it, they will come" sort of platform in its early days when it was the Hot New Thing, but that's not the reality anymore. People with existing platforms outside of the Substack space will always grow faster.”
“substack is basically a gym where everyone’s newsletter is about going to the gym, and the actual secret is having an audience somewhere else already”
“Engaging with creaters on it same like LinkedIn which is frustrating to the writers who don't know how to communicate or don't like so much engagements...”
“No one tells you how much of writing on Substack is NOT actually writing! Managing a publication incurs additional responsibilities. You will spend a lot of time choosing your headlines, answering comments, posting Notes, meeting other writers, watching your analytics, and figuring out what to write about.”
“Through doing what you said mainly engaging on people’s notes and reading their stories (which actually is easy because I enjoy it), and posting a note each day I’ve got 43 subscribers. I’m hoping it keeps increasing with this method so by the time I start the serial I have at least a little group.”
“I recently got Substack and I’ve been trying to find a way to get a bit more exposure. There is this chat thing where a few people send their articles and then we read it and share our thoughts on other peoples pieces.”
“I want to enable paid subscriptions on Substack, but if you're in India, you cannot do it directly, and you need some kind of invitation. And when you go to the invitation form, they ask you for a "work email." I cannot buy a domain.”
“I'm a bestseller with 4.2K+ subs and growth has been almost entirely through Substack alone - mostly through consistency, quality content, and making genuine connections.”
“people are saying that it isn't somewhere you can grow etc. but ive grown my newsletter to over 6000 subscibers this year through substack alone, on the platform. no outside account with followers that i shared to.”
“My click rate to my substack from Instagram is low. Should I just make content on Instagram directly rather than encouraging them to go to substack right off the bat?”