Re:Substack won't make you rich
by throwaway201606 on Monday January 22, 2024 @11:49AM
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On second thoughts, @moring, you are definitely on to something here!
It may be a product if one can find a way to effectively integrate content from across different platforms. Which means it has to be off any of the platforms.
Like, maybe, curated paid for lists of selected content via RSS, for my beloved, now dead but not forgotten, Google Reader
There is definitely something here.
The idea of doing a Patreon is interesting.
The real problem is that from a technology support perspective, this is not a real tech business, it is just a feature on any of the platforms. The moment they implement some type of "Magazines" on YouTube / Facebook / Tiktok, you gotta move from Patreon to their platform because of discovery.
The product is not the tech, it is the skill in curation.
As a curator, i could care less what the platform is as long as someone pays me as much as I can get out of the system. Happy to run it on multiple platforms, on email .. whatever mix pays me the most. But I realize right up front that I will have to be paid on the platform the content is on because that is where it will be easiest to get new sign ups.