Haha, "good guy Mills"! I'm telling my family about this!
I love public roadmaps. To be candid, I think we're not quite "settled" enough internally / as a company to get there in the near future. As quickly as Substack-the-platform is changing, so too is Substack-the-company: scaling, experimenting, exploring, bringing in new POVs. Anotheβ¦
Haha, "good guy Mills"! I'm telling my family about this!
I love public roadmaps. To be candid, I think we're not quite "settled" enough internally / as a company to get there in the near future. As quickly as Substack-the-platform is changing, so too is Substack-the-company: scaling, experimenting, exploring, bringing in new POVs. Another way to put this: we can't share a public roadmap if we barely have a private one! (I shouldn't exaggerate; we have plans, of course). Basically: we'd love to get here and I think we will someday, but probably not in the next few months.
It looks like Jasmine is following up re: a potential beta program, which we'd *also* love to productize / scale. That one might happen sooner!
To your last point: you and my bosses are in complete agreement that there should be more writing about the design of Substack! The team is full of wonderful writers, like Jasmine, so it can definitely happen. Not to sound like a broken record, but we're just a bit busy at the moment! As we scale and settle, it'll be easier to slot in time for these kinds of very important things, and as someone who's written a lot about design over the years, I can't wait!
ππ½ ππ½ ππ½ thank you for honest and clear reply.
Having too many amazing things to build all at once is what my Grandpa would have called a "champagne problem". I have confidence y'all will get it right and get it done in time. Thanks again!
Haha, "good guy Mills"! I'm telling my family about this!
I love public roadmaps. To be candid, I think we're not quite "settled" enough internally / as a company to get there in the near future. As quickly as Substack-the-platform is changing, so too is Substack-the-company: scaling, experimenting, exploring, bringing in new POVs. Another way to put this: we can't share a public roadmap if we barely have a private one! (I shouldn't exaggerate; we have plans, of course). Basically: we'd love to get here and I think we will someday, but probably not in the next few months.
It looks like Jasmine is following up re: a potential beta program, which we'd *also* love to productize / scale. That one might happen sooner!
To your last point: you and my bosses are in complete agreement that there should be more writing about the design of Substack! The team is full of wonderful writers, like Jasmine, so it can definitely happen. Not to sound like a broken record, but we're just a bit busy at the moment! As we scale and settle, it'll be easier to slot in time for these kinds of very important things, and as someone who's written a lot about design over the years, I can't wait!
ππ½ ππ½ ππ½ thank you for honest and clear reply.
Having too many amazing things to build all at once is what my Grandpa would have called a "champagne problem". I have confidence y'all will get it right and get it done in time. Thanks again!