klyburke

Congrats! Thanks for sharing your story. I was using Missive in my last job between 2018-2021. Thanks for always being responsive with customer support and adding features. My team was genuinely thrilled to read the "What’s new in Missive?" email.

So much effort to re-invent a tree.

One of the authors here. True, the main repo is a big boilerplate :) Thanks for the feedback.

Within the repo, we have a boilerplate folder with fewer features and APIs.

Medium had a beta for subscriptions + monetization tools last year for individual publishers. A few examples: http://www.poynter.org/2016/facing-shutdowns-and-stagnating-...

The advertising part of the model may have been removed, but I think there's still value in enabling publishers with tools to sell their content directly to readers.

Sounds like they want to be a curator. I agree on the idea to create a subscription feature and take a cut. Medium has such a big audience that I think publishers would gladly sell there for a % fee. If they can't do that, then they'll stick with selling exclusively on their websites.

I think this could turn away a big majority of writers who have great content but aren't well known. Kinda like Spotify dollars are all going to the top pop singers but not many of the indie bands that people really love. And if Medium was really going to pay all the writers, how much would they end up with? Couldn't be more than pennies. As a writer, I'd rather have the ability to sell my own subscription on Medium, and get paid by my loyal readers.

There are services for people to do online research for you (e.g. https://wonderlib.com/), so I think it's fair to pay for a search engine that directly gives you highly relevant (and as you suggest, human-curated) results.

Really nice design. It invites people to read.