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Melissa Kwan's avatar

Interesting - so you think the followers feature actually hurts subscriber count because people no longer have to subscribe to get your content? I've been posting 2 notes a day for 2 months and have see very little, if no subscriber increase. I'm actually at a loss for how to increase subscribers enough that I still feel positive ROI from spending time writing. Which we know, is significant.

Kyle Poyar's avatar

beehiiv has a lot more tools to turn a newsletter into a business. It’s effectively Substack and a marketing automation platform (think: HubSpot replacement) and website product (think: Webflow) all in one. Substack is leaning more into being a writerly Twitter…

Melissa Kwan's avatar

Yeah Substack has zero features around email and lack basic functionality like sorting published posts by views. It’s wild. Will you keep posting notes here and use SS to try and drive traffic or plan to get off completely? I noticed creators like Sahil Bloom post here and Kit

Kyle Poyar's avatar

TBD, haven’t thought that far ahead!