Substack looks great, particularly with the new Notes feature/Twitter clone. But it falls short for me in a couple of ways.

• It’s yet to see whether Notes will actually be really boring. It has to tickle the neurons in all sorts of ways to be a successful social platform.
  • I may also want to subscribe to someone’s Notes but not their newsletter
  • It retains Twitter’s issues of being a global town square.
• I like to write in Notion, and for what I write to be published straight away. Substack needs me to do an awkward copy/paste.
• I don’t want to write every month. I want to publish when I want to, and get paid when that happens. Substack is monthly or yearly only.
• Substack doesn’t have beehiiv’s referral rewards program.

A combo of Notion + Super + my own Stripe integration+ Beehiiv (though I’ll have to copy/paste in here) is probably better than Substack.

Or there are some new Notion → Email newsletter options.

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/create-and-send-beautiful-newsletters-with-notion-ff9a0815ff

https://www.nocodeletters.com

https://www.notionmailer.com/?source=indiehackers (waitlist)

Other good writers have their own platforms too. Stratechery & Every. Note they have both expanded from one to many writers.