Hey launches Hey World. A Substack competitor?

The one thing they don't have (and probably won't?) is a paid newsletter option.

Looks like @joshuaanderton is working on that with Meeps!

https://meeps.app

Looks super nice and clean.

…Although I think we're about to enter a new era where the big social networks (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) all offer more-or-less the same thing, but with distribution to your followers built in. That's a very hard sell to ignore if you want people to actually read your content. For most IHers, I imagine Twitter will be the best option.

And of course, you can already use Ghost to whip up something like this super quickly

So although it looks niec, I'm not seeing what makes it exciting except that it's new.

Isn't this just email..? What is the substack newsletter component?

Oh, that's super cool.

I don't have a Hey email, but having that might actually convert me. 👀

When I write a certain kind of email — aka a blog post — why do I have to address it to someone? Why can't I just address my thoughts to the world? Direct to the web for anyone and everyone? Rather than define the recipients, I just write and let the recipients find me.

This post you're reading right now is the world's first HEY World post. And I published it by simply emailing this text directly to world@hey.com from my jason@hey.com account. That was it.