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Show HN: Inside – The network of email newsletters

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42 pointsawwstn15 comments

3rd time's a charm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12531079

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12533650

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=inside.com shows that this is actually the 11th time that awwstn has submitted inside.com as a "Show HN".

As far as I know, they started allowing duplicate URLs to encourage people to give it another shot – but maybe I tried too many times.

I'm sorry to have offended you.

This looks cool. You may want to include the 'about' link in the header (not just footer) since you have essentially infinite scroll, and as a first-time visitor I want some more context.

Good feedback !

Jason, I've been a big fan of your work ever since Mahalo days. Love what you and Lon are doing with Inside.com. Ping me if you ever want to discuss tech strategy, I think your format is uniquely well-suited to a machine learning approach with a couple modifications.

As others have mentioned, getting to the footer links with infinite scrolling is less than ideal.

More generally, I disagree with "Email provides an excellent channel to re-align those incentives. If we can convince you to subscribe to one of our newsletters, we have the chance to deliver something great to you on a regular basis." Email has never been a good way to consume news. I assume that providing RSS feeds would break your business model, but it would result in a much more consumer-friendly product.

Also, unlike many "Show HN"s, it should probably be noted that this is not some random side project - the CEO is Jason Calacanis

I'm responsible for 5% of the new inside -- our team did heavy lifting!

I am interested in people's feedback of course!

Really like these. Been subscriber to Inside since it started and it's a fantastic summary of the daily news.

I've started reading Inside Security and it's a good overview of news for someone not in the security industry.

Same here. I think I started with the first public issue and it has become a habit I enjoy having. Seconding Inside Security as very good.

Infinite scroll. A Footer. Choose one.

This is great in terms of discovery, but I can't find the unsubscribe option? Maybe i'm overlooking something - would appreciate anyone point it out. Unsubscribing is probably a big of a pain point as discovery when it comes to newsletters for me.

Yeah, they put all the unsubscribe options inside the actual emails. It seems like they're using all the best-practices stuff for that. It's probably just growth hacking/simplicity. The unsubscribe is available, but they want you to do it from inside the email after you've had a chance to look at one first.

(Disclosure: I have no relationship to Inside.com. I'm just a subscriber that is moderately pleased with their concept. The emails are useful. I'm trying to break my "check Reddit/HN every 5 minutes" habit.)

I like the concept. Waiting until a tipping point (subscriber count or sponsorship) before launching a new newsletter is a good idea. Also thought the simple touch of consistently noting the frequency of each newsletter was good.

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