Really? If that's true, Substack has been VERY good at keeping the secret. All the early interviews I've read with the founders say they're building a newsletter subscription business...the business model I (and many others) fell in love with. "Website" was a four-letter word.
So, Substack the newsletter company is now a website company.
We've always secretly been one!
Really? If that's true, Substack has been VERY good at keeping the secret. All the early interviews I've read with the founders say they're building a newsletter subscription business...the business model I (and many others) fell in love with. "Website" was a four-letter word.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/16/substack-one-year/
https://www.vox.com/2017/10/16/16480782/substack-subscription-newsletter-sinocism-bill-bishop-ben-thompson-stratechery
They talk about how they intentionally used this shorthand for clarity in the early days here - https://on.substack.com/p/please-stop-calling-it-the-newsletter
I think that substack has always been a blog + a newsletter. We are upping our blog game ;)
Sneaky indeed. Thank you.
Haha
It's such a great experience on web, I wish I was at my computer more.
This seems to not be updated with the mobile app in mind- which is fascinating.