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With Substack, anyone can start a publication that combines a personal website, blog, and email newsletter or podcast. It's quick and simple.

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With Substack, anyone can start a publication that combines a personal website, blog, and email newsletter or podcast. It's quick and simple.

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Hamish McKenzie recruited Substack's first publisher from his inbox

Hamish McKenzie says Substack needed one perfect publisher, emailed Bill Bishop about a paywall already in motion, and watched Sinocism take six figures on the first paid day.

Substack launched when paying for internet writing still drew blank stares

Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie say Substack started from an unpublished essay about the attention economy, a Stratechery-shaped payment box, and Bill Bishop's first day, which Best described as six figures, after Y Combi

Buffer's first paying customer arrived four days after a seven-week build

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ConvertKit's $5,020 MRR in 2015 is not the 2020 ARR clock

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