Big things start small: How Substack sparked its early community ofwriters — Get Together Book
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Big things start small: How Substack sparked its early community ofwriters — Get Together Book
Bailey and People & Company community manager Katie O’Connell (author of a book about creating community around live music) are building an educational and support infrastructure for writers that will involve workshops, meetups (here’s one next week), office hours, training sessions, parties, and a hell of a lot more. And Kevin is building out Subs... See more
Hamish Mckenzie • Growing the pie for writers
Get in on the ground floor, make friends, and find mentors and connections that will bear fruit when the world spins just enough to make what you’re making make sense.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
The second thing Substack is doing to build power within the constraints of their ideology is to create content discovery loops that are driven by people, rather than algorithms. This is why Substack lets writers feature other writers on their sites, and gives readers profiles where they can display which Substacks they are subscribed to.
Nathan Baschez • Substack’s Ideology
how Jack Conte of Patreon once framed online community: you may think your interests are niche—maybe only 1 in 1,000 people like the same things as you—but with 4 billion people online, that’s 4 million people who share your interests. On the internet, no niche is too niche.
Rex Woodbury • The Internet Killed Mainstream Culture
Substack should take a page from Twitch's playbook by investing in helping writers build communities on-platform. Community features could include: