Hey Michael, This is so freaking timely, it's awesome.
I noticed this same problem last fall and built an automation tool for my purposes, after some feedback I built a self-serve portion around it to open it to people - I am launching it as part of this month IndyHackathon and next week in Doha (Qatar) as part of the Websummit.
I wonder if we can work together on this - if you go to https://neuraldreams.ai you can see a screenshot of my demo from 1 week ago at the IndyHackathon.
The "ads" are right now your own newsletter or you can add text and a link to any other ones you want - or any other digital products you may have.
Even if you want to go your own way, I love how much this validates the issue I saw last fall immediately with Substack...
The theory is good but if your other point about Substack becoming saturated with many newsletters suffering from low quality subscribers I can only see this as making the problem worse. Ie you will be targeting your native recommendations at a saturated substack user base.
To work, you need to be targeting newsletters outside the Substack ecosystem or who have grown their list outside of Substack. Otherwise you are just going to dilute the Substack list even more.
I've been trying something similar at the end of my essays. I'm not sure the click through though. Mostly I try to do coauthor collab and cross posts.
I'm ways game to test something new.
Hey Michael, This is so freaking timely, it's awesome.
I noticed this same problem last fall and built an automation tool for my purposes, after some feedback I built a self-serve portion around it to open it to people - I am launching it as part of this month IndyHackathon and next week in Doha (Qatar) as part of the Websummit.
I wonder if we can work together on this - if you go to https://neuraldreams.ai you can see a screenshot of my demo from 1 week ago at the IndyHackathon.
The "ads" are right now your own newsletter or you can add text and a link to any other ones you want - or any other digital products you may have.
Even if you want to go your own way, I love how much this validates the issue I saw last fall immediately with Substack...
Cheers
The theory is good but if your other point about Substack becoming saturated with many newsletters suffering from low quality subscribers I can only see this as making the problem worse. Ie you will be targeting your native recommendations at a saturated substack user base.
To work, you need to be targeting newsletters outside the Substack ecosystem or who have grown their list outside of Substack. Otherwise you are just going to dilute the Substack list even more.