Derek Hughes on Substack
“I think that if you want to treat your work like a virus that will reach a lot of people,” Jonathan explained, “it’s good to package it in a way that can optimize the number of people it can reach, and that can mean different things. You can make something really, really palatable and turn it into an HBO miniseries or you can make something modera
... See moreScott Belsky • Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi started Substack in 2017, but their history dates back years before. Chris co-founded the anonymous posting app Kik during his third year at the University of Waterloo (2010). He spent the better part of eight years at the company where he met his soon-to-be co-founders. When Chris left Kik in early 201
... See moreAli Abouelatta • ✍️ Substack
The biggest risk to Substack isn’t that Gmail changes its algorithm or that readers set up automatic forwarding and share accounts. It’s that years from now, each author will have built up so much content that a reader can pay a 1 month subscription, download the archive, and be set on reading material.
Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
In the language of Ben Thompson, Substack has two choices. It can become a full fledged aggregator, build network effects and community, personalized content and so forth, but risk the moral purity of being one of the last ad-free algorithm-free corners of the internet, or it can become a platform, provide valuable infrastructure and flexible prici... See more