Comment by duck
2 years ago
I started Hacker Newsletter [1] almost 14 years ago and sent out the 647th issue today [2] to 58k folks. It took over a year to break 1k subscribers and a few more years to get to that type of revenue. I could do a lot more with it and plan to one day, but really only focus on it a couple hours each week when I build the issue and talk to sponsors.
1: https://hackernewsletter.com 2: https://mailchi.mp/hackernewsletter/647
I'm a happy subscriber! Funny thing is, I ignore it most weeks because I'm checking HN a lot anyway; but if I have so much as a long weekend offline then your newsletter is the answer to my FOMO.
I love the simplicity and I don't mind the ads.
I don't have HN open all day so I love this newsletter. I'm also in Australia so sometimes I miss posts as they slide away during US work hours. Love your work
Thanks Dan, glad to hear it is useful. Mudmap looks very cool!
Hmmm... all the stories on the 647 sample issue are ones I had already read here on HN. So you are just curating the HN feed?
Yeah, all links come from HN (I use the API to pull them into my tool). I'm not just grabbing the highest voted items though, but rather a mix. Basically I'm taking the ~1500 posts that got at least 5 votes and picking ~70 for each issue. If you saw all 70 of those then you're on HN all the time and it probably isn't much use to you.
What's the current MRR out of curiosity? I think about it every time I get it in my inbox :)
I love it. I read it while having coffee on Saturday mornings.
Your newsletter is the best part of my Friday mornings. Thank you.
Thanks for starting it and keeping it going.
It is one of the few newsletters I look forward to so I can “catch up” with topics that were popular during the course of a week on HN.
Thanks for doing it. Love receiving this.
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