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Just launched my Newsletter - How do I grow it fast?

Hello Fellow Builders!

We launched The Builder OS Newsletter - a newsletter on everything around building products on the Internet. I run a micro products studio and have built over 10 products in the last 12 months. I have started this newsletter to share my learnings around building, growing and selling products.

Link: https://thebuilderos.beehiiv.com/

I'd appreciate any ideas on how to grow the newsletter fast!

on May 1, 2024
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    I'm big on recommendations. I started SaaS Watch a couple of months ago. I tried reddit, which worked really well for my other newsletter, but the results weren't great on this one. So I reached out to other newsletter creators and swapped recommendations. Since then, it has grown steadily (500+) with almost zero marketing effort on my part.

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    Share bits and pieces of your newsletters on your socials, and then drop a link to your subscribe form at the end.

    This is how I grow my newsletter, an example:

    I got quite a few subs from that.

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