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18 pointsgjusaityte10 comments

Thanks for sharing this, and great work on the website. It seems extremely polished and well made. I've submitted my newsletter as well <https://hellouniverse.substack.com>, hope you'll be able to feature it. Just one input - the categories when submitting are a bit limiting - could you add a category of creative writing as well? Would be relevant for writers like me.

Hi Punit, thank you so much for such a positive feedback, it means a lot! It's so cool that you've submitted your own newsletter, I will definitely check it out :)

It's a good suggestion, I will see what I can do about it :) As there are so many topics out there, I was trying to condense them and work on additional characteristics to provide relevant suggestions when you browse.

You're missing tags for science and space, among others.

Very cool, although with goodreads being a bit of a disaster I am not sure I would pitch it that way :)

Maybe, HN but for newsletters :)

Good point, HN for newsletters does sound great! Though it did catch your attention :))

Hah true :), but goodreads is my competition so i was extra curious!

I've checked Shepherd and love the idea! Did you interview all of those authors? :o

Thanks :), yep although a bit streamlined in the sense I've got a Word doc they fill out as its more a recommendation bit, but pretty labor intensive!

btw, have you thought of doing podcasts too?

I've played with the idea as it is hard sometimes to find great ones, both newsletters and podcats in niches, it is something I've thought about with Shepherd (but don't have time for a while).

Docs are the best! :D

Yes, actually, I did! I love podcasts and I think that this format would be a perfect fit.

Though I was hoping to explore this idea after readsom will get enough traction - so it would be worth it:)

Nice, you need a way to get people to link to you and drive traffic, got any ideas?

You could do a feature of every newsletter author to try to get publicity with each one.

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