I built this list of newsletters, is this interesting?
Hey all,
I've been working on a project I want to share with you.
Thanks for Subscribing (https://thanksforsubscribing.app) lists 150+ newsletters in various categories, you can click through to the latest edition or archive and of course subscribe to it.
I try to not only show the obvious titles but want to look for the "smaller" titles with a great niche, an excellent and unique voice. Titles that try to stay away from only what's latest in tech now.
I'd love to get feedback on this site. Is it fun to browse through? Does it surprise you with what's offered? What would you expect more on a site like this? I have plans for interviews with makers of newsletters. Talking about their newsletter stack, way of working, inspiration. Is this something worth considering?
Anyway, take a look at the site let me know what you think and don't be afraid to signup for the most meta newsletter of newsletters, the Thanks for Subscribing Newsletter. Every week I send a newsletter with new additions to the newsletter-directory. It's a newsletter of newsletters. How Kramer.
Awesome resource. I just submitted my newsletter as well.
The footer of the website seems a bit messed up? Maybe you can take a look at that.
Thanks for the feedback! Can you give me some more details what's messed up? Did you see the site on mobile or desktop? Browser? I will look into this, thanks.
I saw the site on Laptop (Chrome). This image can help. Just my personal feedback :)
This is really cool @frankmeeuwsen. Thanks for doing all the hard work 😄
It would be cool to see scale when browsing. Even some broad ranges of subscribers would be nice to see (0–100 subs, 100–500 subs, 500–1k subs etc). It would mean more work for you, unfortunately! But I think seeing popularity helps when browsing lists.
You're welcome Dan! I try to automate most of it and I like to discover new titles. From what I understand you would need some metric to describe popularity. Would that be popularity in general or in your specific interest-group? For instance, a newsletter on Bitcoin might be extremely popular, but not in my interest. But a smaller newsletter on craftbeer is very interesting to me. So this metric can help, but I'd have to think about some extra data-points to make it interesting to you.
I think just a simple subscriber count would be a great addition. It wouldn't need to e any more complicated. Personally, it doesn't matter if a newsletter has a large or small following, if the content is good. It's just nice to see that one newsletter has 20k subscribers and another has <500.
This is cool! I especially like the "See an example first" feature. It would be interesting to also have a layout where I could be looking at a particular category and then sort by newsletter frequency. Great work!
Ah that's interesting, multiple filters. This goes on the list of ideas, thanks!