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How the Substack feed is learning to understand your reading journey(mrkcohen.substack.com)
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Paul Graham's Plain Rhetoric(commonreader.co.uk)
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Open-sourcing my Universal Constructor AI coding tool(cb.substack.com)
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The AI revolution is an opportunity for writers (the human kind)(on.substack.com)
14 points by cjbest 3y ago|3 comments
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We're Living in a Scroll-and Swipe Doom Loop Culture(tedgioia.substack.com)
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by cjbest 4y ago
Founder here. Sorry about this everyone. We're monitoring a fix now
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by cjbest 4y ago
Thank you for the feedback
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by cjbest 4y ago
This is a great point, and one that we're honestly in the process of trying to make progress on. Ideally, I would love to have both: - Writers and creators on Substack are in complete control of the brand and feel of their publication
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by cjbest 4y ago
Yes this is how we see it. And we've fixed the version lock thing.
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by cjbest 4y ago
Thanks. Happy to answer questions here too.
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by cjbest 4y ago
One of the founders here. Here's a copy of the response I posted on Twitter. -- A response to @JohnONolan here to clear up some serious misunderstandings https://twitter.com/JohnONolan/status/16023303778126438
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by cjbest 4y ago
Yes?
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Build your fanbase using the K-pop method(lulu.substack.com)
208 points by cjbest 4y ago|119 comments
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Egregores(martyrmade.substack.com)
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by cjbest 4y ago
I'm one of the Substack founders. My (obviously biased) view is that we are trying to do something that is genuinely important, and that we're willing to sweat the details in service of the people who use Substack. I'll try t
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by cjbest 5y ago
Yes we're keen on this. In fact, although you can't add RSS in the app (yet), you can add it on the web at https://reader.substack.com/inbox and it will show up in the app However, I can't promise that we won
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by cjbest 5y ago
Thanks, this means a lot.
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by cjbest 5y ago
haha
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by cjbest 5y ago
Thank you this is an interesting perspective. Substack today is definitely targeted at people who want a full stack thing and don't want to worry about coding one's own template etc. As someone who does want to self host, which Su
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by cjbest 5y ago
We do have strikethrough! It's the little S with the line through it in the editor bar (or Cmd+shft+X) Good thought on subscripts.
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by cjbest 5y ago
Thank you for subscribing! The bundle question is interesting. The model right now is really an unbundling. The direct relationship between writers and readers is what makes Substack work: as a writer, your incentive is to earn and keep the
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by cjbest 5y ago
Thank you for your business!
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by cjbest 5y ago
2: We do have a strong philosophical stance on this. We think taking a strong stance in favor of freedom of the press is both the right thing to do, and critical to the success of our broader mission. We've written about this a few tim
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by cjbest 5y ago
Thanks! Our goal with the app is to give a seamless upgrade to the email experience -- which is why the home page works just like an inbox -- while having writers retain ownership of their list (which therefore gives them exit rights.) We d
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by cjbest 5y ago
Reading articles may be an almost perfect fit for web, but we see a really clear pattern among the 70% of our users that read in mobile: they discover stuff to read on the web through links that get shared, but once they sign up they over
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by cjbest 5y ago
We'll get you a real answer about how the tech stack is today. But for now I can tell a war story that might be fun. I'm one of the founders, and am in a very much non-technical role now as CEO, I did write a bunch of the very ear
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by cjbest 5y ago
We were not totally surprised. One of the good things Substack can do is put competitive pressure on traditional outlets. If people want to go independent, having a good way to do so helps them. But also that possibility creates pressure on
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by cjbest 5y ago
We definitely care a lot about about freedom of the press, and have written a bunch about it at e.g. https://on.substack.com/p/society-has-a-trust-problem-more I think the Substack model gives us a bunch of advantages
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by cjbest 5y ago
Oh thanks! I've grown to expect a lot of intelligent skepticism on HN, so this was a nice surprise :)
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by cjbest 5y ago
I definitely hear this, but there is some tension here for us. One of the big values of Substack for writers is that it is the place where you can build your most valuable audience, which means: 1. When folks opt in, you can reach them when

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