I will say: I'm probably in the minority, but I read all my substacks via their RSS feeds and I have the emails switched off. So I personally would appreciate it if whichever alternative you're going for also has RSS support.
Trying to figure out the same thing for myself. At this point, based on the number of paid and free subscribers I have, there isn't any similar platform that I can move to and not lose money.
This week I'm in the process of installing a self-hosted ghost instance + mailgun. You can apparently get away with the cost of the CDN (unless you actually need it). mailgun's cost is hard to work around, though I'm trying to migrate to their 'hidden' flex pay-as-you-go plan
This post really highlights why Substack captures all of the small to middle to kinda big audience. Only once you can pay for engineers does doing anything really feel that easy. Good luck!
I will say: I'm probably in the minority, but I read all my substacks via their RSS feeds and I have the emails switched off. So I personally would appreciate it if whichever alternative you're going for also has RSS support.
Yup, I forgot to mention it but most things I'm looking at seem to support RSS by default and it's one of the selection criteria
Trying to figure out the same thing for myself. At this point, based on the number of paid and free subscribers I have, there isn't any similar platform that I can move to and not lose money.
This week I'm in the process of installing a self-hosted ghost instance + mailgun. You can apparently get away with the cost of the CDN (unless you actually need it). mailgun's cost is hard to work around, though I'm trying to migrate to their 'hidden' flex pay-as-you-go plan
This post really highlights why Substack captures all of the small to middle to kinda big audience. Only once you can pay for engineers does doing anything really feel that easy. Good luck!
Which gamedev conference are you hosting?
I've been running this one: https://vnconf.com,
recordings: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQtQMEIQkh3ajtx_BMemvIA