Need a little help from the awesome IH community.
I started my first newsletter today on Substack
My day job is as an engineer and I am a complete newsletter noob.
It would be so so helpful if you could look and point out the mistakes that I have made.
Here I took a crack at rewriting this for you:
into this:
Absolutely love this copy suggestion. Great how it gets to the core benefit of "staying ahead".
Going to try it put on landing page
Here's the copy I'm reading (in case you're revising it):
I'm intrigued! (Well, I'd genuinely be intrigued if I were a JS developer.) Puzzles are fun.
I would add some more emphasis to the overall benefit, "stay[ing] ahead."
You know how devs in Agile shops have to write their tickets?
My advice would be to focus on that last line. So that I can...?
Stay on the bleeding edge of JS?
Get more well-rounded as a JS developer?
Advance my skills while having fun and land better jobs with more money?
Optional extra benefit: Is there a very short (1-2 sentences) method to give a more specific picture of what your reader would do? Perhaps an example case? Is there a way to let the reader imagine themselves having fun taking on the challenge? If you're a patio11 follower, perhaps there was some benefit offered to Starfighter players that could serve as inspiration.
Thanks. The feedback about overall benefit is great. Easy to forget to focus on benefits when you are the maker of something because the benefits are obvious in your own head.
I am putting together a 30 second video of me running through an example challenge from start to finish. Going to use that in a few places to real give people an immediate sense of a challenge. I have also update some imagery on Substack with a screenshot of a challenge sandbox.
Hi James , don't only talk about what you do but tell them what value you will bring:
new insights ? discover new tools or libs in an interactive way ?
good luck
Filip
Thanks for feedback. Really useful. I'm reworking some of the copy now so will talk more about value the challenges will bring.