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A list of newsletters, is this useful?

Is this useful, should I keep going?

https://www.notion.so/rosieland/090c527e386d4cef9ad6ad12b6248b4a?v=c7912c2a61304991aedbd0ecaac1d798

In time, I can and want to take this further over time for books, articles, tools and plenty more things.

on May 4, 2020
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    Because it's you, I'd like to know why you love those newsletters. 1 may be a general.. "I Like this voice" but others might be "oh I found this great article, here it is...."

    As deeply personal as you can get, the better. I think these lists are important not because of the curation aspect but because YOU curated it.

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      It's not so much why I love them, it's more focused on what indie hackers love (or recommend). I don't go searching outside of IH for recommendations. And there is no way I read/subscribe to all of these.

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        I am recommending to make one about those you love and why. Much much stronger than a list. a personal list and why. also you have hustle on there twice.

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          I agree with @AndrewKamphey on this. This was the whole idea behind creating my side project Product Disrupt – my list of resources to learn product design.

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    just saw my little project https://tldrmarketing.com made it onto that list !!!! Thanks :)

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      Here is yours, Saijo George, https://newsletterest.com/newsletter/2231/tl%3BdrMarketing
      Beautiful layout and great content.
      Thanks for your suggestion.

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    Nice list! If you like, here's one focused on understanding systems (unintended consequences) of our actions https://unintendedconsequenc.es/

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    I think it's a great collection of newsletters. Keep going!

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    Nice!! Thanks #StaySafe

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    Great list, I will import them to Newsletterest :)
    Publishers, please share your newsletter here: https://newsletterest.com/suggest
    Thanks!

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    Great curation! Can you also add Product Disrupt Newsletter?

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        Thank you @rosiesherry :)

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    Yes definitely! Please can you add my newsletter growthlessons.co?

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    Good to see that we are in the same arena!

    I did the same list in a google sheet :)

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    Nice one Rosie, definitely helpful!

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    I just have one question, how can my newsletter make it to your list? 🤔 😅

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      Let me know here in the comments :)

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        Thanks :)

        1. Name: Benas Digital
        2. Description: I am here to document my journey to creating a business that generates $300,000/year. Sounds impossible? Yeah, it does, but who is going to stop me from trying? You will see all the behind these scenes, real-time challenges and experiments, no BS attached.
        3. Link: https://benasdigital.com/
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    This is really helpful! Maybe it can become something like the IMDB for newsletters?

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    It would be cool to get a list of newsletters where one can contribute to, like with HARO (https://www.helpareporter.com/)

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    My newsletter is missing :)

    https://helloclouders.com

    Type: Technology, Tech, Cloud
    Website : https://helloclouders.com
    Overview : The easiest way to learn AWS with bite-sized content and questions

    Hope you can add it to the list

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    I love this, and I think it's super useful.

    I have a separate Gmail account that I use to subscribe to a myriad of companies, products, blogs, etc. that I want to follow.

    Just added a bunch more subscriptions based on your list, thanks!

    If the list gets larger, it would be nice to see view them by category. But given the current size, it works for me.

    Thanks again!

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      Have you tried something like Stoop to silo newsletters into their own place?

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        Just installed the app. Looks pretty good so far. I like the ability to subscribe to YouTube channels as well. Thanks again for the recommendation!

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          Glad you found it useful! I love using it as a dedicated reading/newsletter app.

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        Hadn’t heard of it before. I’ll check it out, thanks for the recommendation!

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      I have been tagging them, so if you type in one of the tags into the search then you come up with a filtered list. I'm still learning all there is to Notion, there may be an easier way to filter results.

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        Perfect. Didn't know I could do that. That works for me, thanks!

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    i like the categorization.

    but, it's unlikely that i'd just sign up for one right off of this page...

    newsletters feel personal to me and if i'm not introduced to it via a friend or trusted colleague... i'm not sure i'll subscribe.

    newsletters are becoming ubiquitous and all of the (network) challenges are going to crop up as more folks come online...

    curation, aggregation, search and discovery systems... ... maybe that's what this can be the start of...?!

    oh, that's kind of neat.

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      I am currently subscribed to only 1 newsletter.

      My fear is: my inbox is already a mess. Actually 2 inboxes. I have made one account with the purpose of signing on to websites and getting all the spam there, but my second address also starts to look messy.

      This got me thinking - is there an email client geared towards newsletters? I would subscribe more if there was a client that would allow me to keep all those newsletters organized and tidy. And having a dedicated address for newsletters would be kind of neat.

      And btw that's why I am extremely ethical with email on my website. I require a person to very consciously subscribe to my newsletter and I give them an option to create an account on my website with an option to avoid getting emails entirely.

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        Take a look at https://stoopinbox.com/

        It’s an app for managing newsletter subscriptions (and it gives you an email address to use to subscribe to them). It’s not perfect but i like it. Keeps all the newsletters out of my email client apart from a select few.

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        i love that you care about ethics + email!

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        I started subscribing to newsletters via RSS. If you look, many newsletters offer this they just aren't vocal about it.

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          Thanks. I will check it out!

          I literally never used RSS in my life!

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            feedly is my jam. been a customer for... a long time. since 2013!

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      I've spent months on IH before discovering something that is apparently popular/useful/wish-I-had-known-about.

      The idea is that this could save people time and help guide people to what is out there, what they could be learning, etc.

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        +1 on this!

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    It’s useless without my newsletters 😄

    But, seriously, what would be the endgame with this? Is there a criteria for what newsletters are included?

    There are other sites with lists of newsletters eg inboxreads.co But probably trying to cover everything so not curated.

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      I see things other people don’t see 😂

      By that I mean recurring questions for things like newsletters, or design tools, or landing page builders, or books, etc.

      And because it’s part of my job to read/process IH forum posts I thought it might be useful to curate what indie hackers recommend...and hopefully save people some time.

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        I was thinking about something similar (directory of builders, tools etc.) Those kind of websites would be handy. Right now I'm just bookmarking them :)

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        Yep, there’s a lot of good recommendations for all those things buried away in these posts.

        Good idea to consolidate the ones that keep coming up.