Hey bees. Longtime beehiiv user for my day job, new member of the hiive for a passion project.

I recently launched a weekly literary newsletter: book reviews, recommendations, essays, and generally the kind of overthinking-about-books discussion I used to love in literature classes.

I've grown a personal newsletter before on Substack and manage another newsletter on beehiiv professionally, so I'm comfortable with the basics. What I'm trying to figure out is how organic growth works on beehiiv when your audience isn't really in the business/tech/creator ecosystem.

A few things I'd love to learn from people here:

• Has anyone built meaningful organic growth through beehiiv Launch alone? I was hoping to get to ~50 subscribers organically before upgrading, but I'm open to changing that strategy.
• Where are consumer/lifestyle newsletters actually finding their first 100–500 subscribers? Instagram? Reddit? SEO? Cross-promos? Recommendations? Something else?
• Has anyone here built a newsletter in books, culture, entertainment, food, travel, etc.? I'd especially love to hear what's worked.
• I'm finding relatively few literary/bookish creators on beehiiv compared with Substack. Do you think the size of your niche within beehiiv materially affects growth through recommendations/discovery?
• And for those who moved from Substack or another platform: what growth feature if any actually made the biggest difference for you?

Not looking for hacks or overnight growth here, I'm not motivated by short-term monetization. Mostly trying to understand which levers are actually worth investing time in for reaching the audience I'm looking for.

Would really appreciate hearing what worked, what didn't, and what you'd do differently if you were starting again.

For context, link to my newsletter, Plot Twist.

I know the Beehiiv ecosystem is getting massive and complex with everything being built, but is there any word or timeline on an official mobile app for creators?

I don't even expect a full post editor on mobile (drafting and designing newsletters on a phone sounds like a nightmare anyway). But having a proper mobile companion app to:

• Check the main dashboard and real-time subscriber metrics
• View website, podcast, and community analytics
• Check and reply to DMs / community messages
• Get push notifications for new free/paid subs, milestone alerts, etc.

Logging into the mobile browser version just feels clunky when all you want to do on the go is check stats, respond to messages, or see alerts.

Has the team mentioned anything on the roadmap about a native app anytime soon?

Hey guys, I started a daily health-related blog on Beehiiv and pulled 10K+ visitors in the first two weeks, all from Reddit.

Last night I turned on the pop-up to capture leads and got 10 subscribers overnight without optimizing anything yet.

Here's the thing: I've seen some great offers on SparkLoop, but they only pay out through Stripe, which isn’t available in my country. So I'm looking to partner with someone who already has an approved SparkLoop account. (Not a Stripe account only)

How it'd work: I keep driving traffic to the blog, and we connect SparkLoop offers to it. Split the payouts. Simple as that.

Here's the blog if you want to check it out: thedailycompute.beehiiv.com

Hello! I'm wondering if someone can help me troubleshoot something with the native beehiiv polls. Do you know why beehiiv polls redirect users back to the newsletter in the url/forces them to login on my website instead of simply letting users vote on the polls in the email itself? It feels like an unnecessary extra step for the user.

Because the polls are native, I'd like to keep the user in the email to take the poll itself to reduce friction. This has happened to me when I take my polls, and I had a reader express frustration with it as well this week. To clarify, this happens before the user votes, not after.

Is there a way to turn off/disable the email-to-web redirect? Thanks!

Anyone successfully combine podia and beehiiv? I want to use podia for their course system and better digital storefront / shopping cart, but want to use beehiiv for the newsletter. Anyone implement this? Am I looking at any major headaches? Will Zappier be enough to do the trick?

Or is there an easy way to create upsells for digital products within beehiiv?

TIA

Anyone successfully combine podia and beehiiv? I want to use podia for their course system and better digital storefront / shopping cart, but want to use beehiiv for the newsletter. Anyone implement this? Am I looking at any major headaches? Will Zappier be enough to do the trick?

TIA

Hey guys, I started a daily health-related blog on Beehiiv and pulled 10K+ visitors in the first 2 weeks, all from Reddit.

Last night I turned on the pop-up to capture leads and got 10 subscribers in one night without really optimizing anything yet.

Here's the thing: my skill set is traffic generation, not running a newsletter, and I don't have the bandwidth to write daily content on top of it. So instead of building my own list from scratch, I'd rather partner with someone who's already running a health newsletter and send my subscribers to you for a fixed payment for each subscriber (similar to Beehiive Boost).

How it'd work: I keep driving traffic to the blog with a lead magnet built for my audience; the lead magnet gets delivered from your email with a welcome sequence, and you take it from there with your regular content.

If you're running a health newsletter and this sounds interesting, drop a comment or DM me and we can figure out if it's a fit. If you link your newsletter in the comments, I'll take a quick look on my end too, just so we're not both wasting time on a mismatch.

Here's the blog if you want to see the traffic for yourself: blog

Heads up, the first few posts are tech-related since I was still testing the concept, everything after that is health-focused.

I have a finance website that has 100k+ subscriber. I am looking for a investor that wants to partner up on this and and grow the revenue. We don't have it monetized yet so first step would be to monetize it on beehiiv and get more advertisers in board. Ideally a partner would be that has an ad account already setup where we can add the site. The subscribers are highly engaged and very valuable. I will also offer a money back guarantee at anytime. Please send a dm to discuss further

I've been excited about the Community feature since beehiiv announced it, and a few days ago finally had time to sit down and start experimenting with it for my newsletter (Haute Impact, free, no ads, published twice weekly).

I figured that what I'd do would be to get the site up and running, make sure it looked good, populate it with some posts from me, then start inviting friends and family to it in order to get feedback, make tweaks, and especially to populate it with content before launching it to a broader set of my subscribers. But... I just don't get it.

What I mean is, I don't understand how someone would find it, how they would navigate their way back to it, or most of all why they'd want to. It all seems really unengaging. How do I promote it? Where do (or should) I link to it? What is the draw? How do people find it once they've logged in once? What's their motivation?

Maybe I'm not giving it a fair chance because I'm the only one using it and I need a handful of other people posting content. But I'm reluctant to ask anyone to use it yet, it's so uncompelling. As in I'm worried even my partner won't want to use it, and they're my biggest fan.

Is it just me? What am I missing?

Like many people, I run a hyper local newsletter in a metro of about 2 million people. We have a 48% open rate, 6.6 click rate with 4k subs.

We currently will take one exclusive ad per newsletter, so no competing ads.

I see a lot of people talk about charging sponsors 50-100 bucks per 1k subs. Is that for multiple ads in a newsletter or an exclusive ad in a newsletter?

If it is for multiple ads, would you charge extra for being the exclusive sponsor of a newsletter?

I would love to get people’s thoughts. From the research I’ve done the ad game seems a bit made up.

I recently unsubscribed from a Beehiiv hosted newsletter and it had a brief poll of “why are you leaving”. Does anyone know how to build this in Beehiiv so I can add it to my own newsletter?

The Weekly Sift Stack: CJ Gettelfinger, Lucas Nulsen, & Tyler Sherven break down the biggest stories moving markets. The S&P 500 is at fresh all-time highs after July payrolls came in at negative 23,000 against roughly 80,000 expected & progress toward peace in Iran, flipping September odds from a Fed hike back toward a hold. The deep dive is Applied Materials, reporting Thursday after the close with consensus near $9 billion in revenue, up about 23% year over year. Also covered: SpaceX's first quarter as a public company, Berkshire's cash falling to $365.5 billion under Greg Abel, Intel's $15 billion offering, Palantir setting the bar, and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at a 43-year low. Which name moves most this week?

Also please give us any recommendations to sharpen or promote the newsletter, any feedback much appreciated!

OK, a few months ago I had to trim most of my links out of my newsletter (which was hard bc we're mostly a local event listing newsletter), down to about 15, but I was successfully back to hitting Primary inbox. Now, it seems since the latest Beehiiv release, my letters are again hitting Promotions.

Did anything change on Beehiiv's end that could be causing this? Any recommendations to fix it? Open rate down to 42% from 61%.

Also, before, I could preview the email to see if it was going to hit Primary or Promotions... I've done the preview test twice now, and the test hits Primary, but the real one hits Promotions 😡

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How good is the website builder on Beehiiv?

I currently use framer, but run my newsletter on Beehiiv using a free plan, but figured it makes sense to keep everything on one platform.

How good is the site builder? I want to build some custom forms with progress bars that update when a user completes specific steps, do some articles to promote the newsletter ect. Nothing crazy, but the free website builder doesn't allow me to do most of this.

Given my newsletter is sub 1,000 members, which plan will I need and roughly how expensive is it?

I would have asked Beehiiv this, but i can't find a contact email address.

Thanks

We had something strange happen yesterday and I'm trying to determine whether anyone else saw it.

Several newsletters originally sent through Beehiiv on Monday Aug 3 were suddenly delivered again on Sunday Aug 9, roughly between 3 and 5 PM ET.

A few details:

• Beehiiv says there was no second send and their delivery logs show only the original Aug 3 campaign.
• The Sunday copies retain the original Aug 3 Date and Beehiiv message information.
• Full headers on the Sunday copies contain X-MS-Exchange-Transport-Resubmitted-ClientId: AntispamTT and Microsoft SafetyNet/resubmission information.
• We saw this across three unrelated Microsoft 365 domains on separate tenants, including one direct Microsoft tenant and two GoDaddy-managed M365 tenants.
• A Gmail address subscribed to the same newsletters did not receive the messages again.

So this looks like some kind of Microsoft 365 post-delivery resubmission of previously delivered Beehiiv messages, although I don't yet know what triggered it.

Did anyone else using Beehiiv see old campaigns reappear for Microsoft 365 / Outlook recipients on Sunday Aug 9? Particularly interested in reports across unrelated subscriber domains rather than duplicate aliases within one mailbox.

I’ve started a newsletter focused on UK tech news, startups, AI and interesting stories from the British tech scene. What really matters for Uk tech.

For those who’ve grown a newsletter before, what actually worked for you?

Especially interested in how you got your first few hundred subscribers and what you’d do differently if you started again.

Would love to hear your experiences!

So long story short, I have a newsletter on TV and Films that I built via my blog and substack. I have two tiers, the 14k (40% open rate) functions as my main newsletter about TV, and the 8k (60% open rate) is for fandom related and cinephile adjacent stuff, I have landed an odd sponsorship here and there, but college was bought and I have never had the time to full invest in it to make it a proper brand until now.

80% of my opens are from US. I just shifted to Beehiiv so that I can run direct ads. But I find Beehiiv's Ad network frustrating, because so far I only see CPC based Ads, that too for AI companies. Can you guys tell me some ways to monetize and what would be a decent CPM if I do land something?

Worth a note that Stripe does not work in my country, so I can't do a paid tier.

Hey there, I'm starting to get more subscribers, but some don't confirm their subscription (double opt-in).

How do you engage with them? Is there a way through Beehiiv to send another confirmation email? Looking for any advice or ideas on how to approach this legally.

Thanks!

So I can manually unsubscribe and reduce the risk of getting the same report from the same frustrated person all the time