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5 points yuwahhid | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.201s | source

I'm about to launch a newsletter and I'm stuck picking the right platform.

On one hand, the simplicity of something like Substack is tempting. I just want to focus on writing.

But if I go that route, every post will be invisible to Google, trapped inside their ecosystem. I'll be renting my audience on someone else's land.

The alternative is a WordPress blog, but wrestling with plugins and updates on top of writing every week feels overwhelming.

For those of you who have been down this road:

1. If you were starting over today, what would you do? 2. Is the discoverability problem on closed platforms as bad as I'm imagining, or am I overthinking it?

1. dtagames ◴[] No.45616309[source]
What makes you think Medium and Sub stack articles aren't in Google? Medium ones are, for sure. I have a couple I've written that are top search results for their topic.

https://medium.com/@mimixco