Substack tries to track whether or not emails are actually opened and read, so it’s not sufficient to just sign up and then ignore the messages. Please try to get as many people as possible to sign up for the newsletter.

So, I think the call to action goes something like this: If we got more recommendations then we might expect Substack to be more likely to present us to their readers. It’s not clear whether individual readers can recommend a publication, or if it is just something that happens between publications. The opportunity we have is to take advantage of Substack’s infrastructure for driving paid subscriptions to instead drive our primary goal: the adoption of TiddlyWiki.įor example, Substack has a recommendation system that I discovered because we’ve received a recommendation from another Substack publication.

Now, I have absolutely no intention of monetizing the TiddlyWiki Newsletter. Many writers report success in building large paid subscriber bases, and consequential income. Substack’s business model at the moment is paid subscriptions: publishers can opt to “monetize” a publication such that readers must pay a small monthly charge, of which Substack gets a cut. Now that we’re using it in earnest I’m beginning to see that there might be some potential to use it to promote TiddlyWiki itself as well as the newsletter. I didn’t know much about it beyond the fact that it is popular across many communities. We use a service called to host the newsletter.

Congratulations to – and to the community for making all the interesting things that he can report on. After 5 days we have 158 subscribers to the TiddlyWiki Newsletter, and the numbers are growing steadily.

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