I've never understood why Substack added the pledge function, or why some newsletters use the function. Either turn on payments or not. The ambiguity of the pledge is not a business model. By the time you decide to pick a random date to switch to a paid option, some of the 3 percent will have changed their minds, it's not a forecast.
I’d been waiting for you to paywall something before I bought a subscription, but that’s admittedly pretty mercenary. :)
Looking forward to the print edition, and keep up the truly great work you’re doing here. This is an exciting and already successful experiment - you’ve taken Substack to the next level. Thanks for this!
"Out of our 22,000 subscribers, less than 3% — yes, you read that right — are making paid pledges."
I never doubted that I read that right, because I easily surmised that (as with me) you subscribed them to something they never asked for. I feel like the guy with the broken Colt 45 bottle is demanding that I pay for it.
22,000 subscribers is super impressive
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I've never understood why Substack added the pledge function, or why some newsletters use the function. Either turn on payments or not. The ambiguity of the pledge is not a business model. By the time you decide to pick a random date to switch to a paid option, some of the 3 percent will have changed their minds, it's not a forecast.
I’d been waiting for you to paywall something before I bought a subscription, but that’s admittedly pretty mercenary. :)
Looking forward to the print edition, and keep up the truly great work you’re doing here. This is an exciting and already successful experiment - you’ve taken Substack to the next level. Thanks for this!
Very exciting and happy for y'all! Any room for creative nonfiction? (Depends on how capacious your definition of "essays" is, I suppose.)
"Out of our 22,000 subscribers, less than 3% — yes, you read that right — are making paid pledges."
I never doubted that I read that right, because I easily surmised that (as with me) you subscribed them to something they never asked for. I feel like the guy with the broken Colt 45 bottle is demanding that I pay for it.
It's not possible for people to receive newsletters without actively signing up.