My Weekly Newsletter is on Product Hunt!
Hello, Hackers & Makers!
In this age of information overload it's really hard to find good articles to read, and even when we find one, we don't get the time required to read it without skimming, so we bookmark and never read it again. Think about the number of articles, videos, tweets that you've "saved for later."
My goal with Shortbound is to help people learn more for less (of their time.) The idea is to curate great articles/essays on topics ranging from entrepreneurship to design and condense them into bite-sized stories and present them in a format that's modern and something that people are used to.
Do check it out on Product Hunt and leave a comment or two. Thanks!
Cool idea, but... I think something is missing. It would be much better and more convincing if you explained on what criteria you select cool articles.
If it's just hype articles, I don't have a need to check inbox for them, I see tons of hype article across my social media. But if you find for me something really valuable and insightful and explain why it can matter for me - I have more reasons for subscribing on your newsletters.
Hi Katerina,
Right now we manually curate proven articles that have helped people in different ways ranging from entrepreneurship to personal improvement but really long to read. Once curated, we condense into < 5 min reads while making sure that its original value is not lost.
While we are not perfect, we are learning every day from subscriber feedbacks and improving both how we choose topics and how the newsletter is formatted.
For example, we recently added a TL;DR section to the top of every story for those who'd just like to glance at the main takeaways before reading the whole story.
Thanks for asking. :)
I'm fully okay and I am, as a person, don't have any concerns about articles, I just explained you my way of thinking as a potential consumer of your product... because I see for some reason your idea didn't have huge success on PH. Probably my suggestion could help.
Yeah, I definitely need to update the overall messaging and copywriting of the newsletter. Thanks a lot for your suggestions! 😊