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Started 188 days ago. At 1801 subs.

Started my newsletter 188 days ago. Just passed 1800 subs.

https://i.imgur.com/GzvA1RO.png

Biggest traffic sources are Substack network, Twitter and Reddit.

I got recommended by a few bigger newsletters that led to more growth.

I want to start posting my articles to my own domain since Substack seems to struggle to rank in Google results.

Newsletter is https://mythicalai.com/

on April 27, 2023
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    Damnn congrats!!! That's huge. Any advice for posting your work to Reddit? Having a hard time there -- certain subcommunities seem brutal on self promoters (which is fair enough). Did you have a preexisting following on Twitter? How are you engaging with the Substack network and what did you find worked best?

    My own project still has less than 100 subscribers -- I'm an AI research scientist covering Internet culture, AI, and tech. Check it out here https://posttruth.substack.com/about if you feel so inclined and subscribe!

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      Any advice for posting your work to Reddit?

      Did you have a preexisting following on Twitter?

      • I have 2k followers on Twitter but didn't have a huge overlap between followers and people interested in AI. I don't tweet about it constantly, mostly reply to others to add value to their conversations.

      How are you engaging with the Substack network and what did you find worked best?

      • Didn't really? People find me and found value and started recommending my newsletter?

      A bit of feedback for your Substack - I looked at the homepage and couldn't really tell what you are about. Are you doing a podcast? Are you recapping other interviews?

      There was no articles that made me stop and want to click. So maybe work on the headlines to entice readers?

      Good luck!

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      Hi, would you be open to do some cross promotion ?

      My newsletter is www.kuration.substack.com

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        I looked at Kuration seems like you are doing daily tech news?

        I don't know if there is a huge overlap between our audiences. I only write one a week and it is deep dive. I could be wrong however.

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          I dont mind cross promotion on one issue. We can try.