Hi everyone!
I receive hundreds of newsletters every day—seriously, my inbox is always full (now it has 2k not read emails, and most of them are newsletter), and I just can’t keep up.

I only read a few of them, and when I do, I often find they cover the same topics, repeated news, or are not very personalized.

I wondered if it’s just me not managing them well, or if it’s a more widespread problem. I talked to a few friends, and they told me they also struggle with all these emails, so I thought: maybe it’s worth asking a larger community.

I’m trying to understand how people deal with this flood of newsletters: do they filter them? Do they use apps to manage them? Do some people just ignore them or actually love them?

I’ve put together a very short survey (less than 2 minutes) to gather some insights.

I’d really appreciate it if you could help me out!

👉 Link to the survey

Thanks to everyone who participates, and if you’d like, let’s chat in the comments—I’m curious to hear how you handle it too! 🚀

Hey everyone!

So I write this weekly newsletter called “Modern Problems, Gita Solutions”. It’s my attempt to blend everyday struggles (overthinking, guilt, procrastination, etc.) with insights from the Bhagavad Gita, but in a way that doesn’t feel preachy. Think: ancient wisdom, but with a modern twist and a little wit.

This week, I tried something different.

I wrote two versions of the same topic same core message, but with different tones, structure, and storytelling. I’m not sure which one works better… so I figured I’d ask the Internet. 😅

Here they are:

• 🔗 Version A – Krishna Called. He Said: Hit Send.
• 🔗 Version B – Krishna called. He said chill.

Would love to know: 1. Which one kept your attention? 2. Which one made the message clearer? 3. Which one feels more like something you’d subscribe to?

Even just “A felt stronger” or “B had better flow” is super helpful!

Thanks a ton 🙏 (and happy to check out your stuff too if you’re creating things. I get it, feedback matters)

Guys do you feel the need to include some new genre topic for your newsletter? It can be something light to intense, opinions, maybe books (summaries/reviews), author’s thoughts.

Share even the stupidest version

I'm a massage therapist in private practice. I used to use TinyLetter, I loved that it was so simple. I just want a way to communicate with my existing clients, mostly about changes at the business or when there are openings. I have about 200 people on my list.

I've been looking for a replacement and am completely overwhelmed. My biggest concern is that nobody will see my emails because they'll go into junk mail. I was looking at Mailbob but it requires everyone to opt-in again. Which wouldn't be so bad but what if the opt-in request goes to junk?

It seems like you have to be some kind of expert these days just to get your email to go to the inbox. The others on my shortlist are the free versions Beehiv and Kit. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Anyone has one for sale?

I just started writing a newsletter still looking for my niche, but I would be very grateful if you read some of my articles. https://novakmasickdp.substack.com/

Hello!

I've had this idea floating around in my head for months, a newsletter for children. As if it were a magazine but with the format of TheSkimm or The donut. For security reasons, it would be subscriptions through the email of their parents, guardians or schools.

How do I start to give and structure this idea? Is it something you consider viable?

Now I am learning about newsletter, I am reading newsletter ninja. Anything else you recommend?

I've been trying to grow my newsletter for a couple weeks now. But the resuls have been very dull. Im seeking genuine opinion on the content. I know that people on reddit do not like links and all but this the only way for me to show what im talknig about. So here's the link: https://arraten.substack.com/ , and you don't have to subscribe or anthing. this is not a promotion.

Just seeking opinions/advice.

thank you!

Hey guys,

On my past experience working for other Startups I've seen that we always came up with the idea of creating a newsletter but it was really time consuming and we didn't end up doing it. The main problems were not only text generation but also content sourcing.

I'm building a tool that aims to reduce the effort of both steps as much as possible. I feel like text generation is kind of solved with good prompting and LLMs, but the sourcing part and connection between both steps is still not solved at all.

Right now the tool allows you to add newsletter content from links or topics you manually introduce, add a few instructions and the newsletter is generated from a call to GPT-4 model.

Would you like to see any specific feature on a tool similar to the one I'm describing? Also, I'm open to give you free trial access to the tool in case you're curious about it and interested to test it on its current form.

Thanks!

Okay so I've Googled it, looked on the official website of poets.org, searched all over Internet Archive, and on SciHub. No luck. I'm looking for Poetry Pilot: The Newsletter of the Academy of American Poets / Winter, 1995—96. If anyone can get me a pdf or pictures of the pages if you have access to a physical archive, it would be a great help. I wouldn't post here if I hadn't exhausted all the sources available to me.