5 points yuwahhid | 1 comments | 17 Oct 25 11:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | 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. agcat ◴[17 Oct 25 17:47 UTC] No.45619641[source]▶

>>45615402 (OP) #

I know, have been there. Another reason why i got a little away from substack is the trap towards vanity metrics sometimes. With notes etc its kind of becoming like a social media platform. It has its pros/cons. For some usecases, substack makes sense. But for my personal writing and more, i have been using bearblog which is amazing

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I wanted to work on a newsletter but I realized I was building a cage around it