“I seriously want to know what she does all day. she couldn’t even keep up the substack for a month she’s so lazy. Alex loves so cosplay as a girl boss entrepreneur but in reality everything she does fails!”
“I’m new to Substack gonna start posting lore from my universe I’m building if it takes off. Awesome more people will learn about my book getting published next year.”
“I write on Substack, and I just started a paywall. I waited 4 years to do that so I could show my performance and gain confidence from users. I know they cost more than $200/yr, but if you find the right fit I think it is worth the money.”
“At 5:45 pm CST, I suddenly got tons of emails from substack with verification codes from things I haven't heard of. I didn't click on any of them, but it was strange to suddenly get a bunch of emails. I thought I was getting hacked.”
“Most of the subscribers to finance Substacks already pay hundreds a year for Financial Times, etc. Maybe $20k+ a year for a Bloomberg terminal. So a few hundred for a Substack is not unaffordable.”
“I’m not the biggest fan of it either, I’ve only been using it a few weeks and overall I do enjoy it. I think the general vibes are great and there’s some really nice content on there, but there are far more low effort posts and pictures etc than I thought. But that is the substack discovery game - notes, comments, restacks, connecting with people.”
“Pangram's third-party Because Substack is simply licensing this technology to combat AI content. They are using your content to train or create anything because they don’t have an AI model.”
“Substack states that it does not use creator content to train generative AI models. Substack provides a "Block AI training" toggle in publication settings, which signals to external third-party AI scrapers and crawlers that they should not use your publication's content to train their models.”
“Anyway, the Substack game is foreign to me. I made an account but I can't be bothered to write on it. Been thinking about repurposing a few of my articles from my sites to test it out though.”
“The grievance is simple: substack is built for the mediocre (the utterly average). For outliers, those with some edge and unconventionality, there’s no seat at the table because the algorithm is programmed to smooth out anything interesting. My feed is a relentless parade of the mundane.”
“If you are into writing already, Substack could be the platform where you share your thoughts and give to people solid information or entertainment they cannot find elsewhere.”
“I currently own a small Substack where I speak about UFOs, astrology, mediumship, general ESP, and so on. I speak not only of mysteries, but I also try to compare and compile cases to create an outlook of how these anomalous phenomena behave as a whole and what they mean for humanity and your personal life.”
“She's got 500K followers on instagram and they followed her over to substack. She has 10k monthly subscribers and closes $60k annually on the platform.”
“Substack has its own discovery engine built-in via Notes. If you just write five notes a day, and you can schedule them, and reply to at least 20 notes a day, then you will see growth.”
“It is important to understand that followers do not always equal subscribers and there are some people who are on substack who use it like a twitter and only use notes without subscribing, and vice versa, so having a high follower count doesn't always equal high engagement rates or high subs.”
“Substack’s algorithm seems determined to show me things I’m not interested in constantly no matter how much I like interesting notes I find or how often I mark notes as “not interesting.” They keep showing me Christian theology and far right nationalist posts!”
“Substack is also not exactly known for its collective brilliance. As much as there are good people and talented writers, there are also people with all sorts of opinions. I guess it comes with the territory, haha.”
“It's a great place to grow an audience, but you would need to do it by posting actual high quality content (ie, a full recipe post). You can still put your link wherever you want, but it's not like Pinterest where it's sort of meant to be a stepping stone.”
“I have replaced several of my niche websites with Substack newsletters. At the end of the day, Substack creates a "website" page you can send people to and all the content you post...internal views happen over time, subsribers take a while, but it depends on the niche...”
“The calmer way to use it is to treat Substack less like a homepage and more like a library of subscriptions. Follow fewer publications, open from email notifications or direct publication pages, mute/unfollow aggressively, and avoid starting from the general home feed when you are in reading mode.”