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published >= 24 articles about food tech on Hackernoon

Time flies and during last few years i was able to build cool collection of articles. While I didn't finish and I have much more to say, probably I'll try to use more systematic approach for building articles. instead of doing some long piece that exploring a few different things inside - I'll prepare a quick version and publish it. It makes me happy and motivated to move forward. I think I still have a content for another 10 articles that can be published without killing myself.

If you interested to explore this topic, here is a list:

on May 1, 2022
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    Thinking about starting newsletter?

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      I'm already building tools for email marketing :) I started newsletter production for my employer 2 years ago. and at some point, we stuck with scaling. And automation was the only way to do that. do you have a newsletter?

      Github organization if you are interested take a look: https://github.com/LLazyEmail

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        I am thinking vaguely about a newsletter, I guess if you produce niche content consistently it is a good way to go. Thanks for the link.
        I like this story.
        They wrote about the agro-tech for a couple of years, got a solid following and know-how, and build a seed fund later.

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    Super intriguing. I love the symbiosis with food and tech! You've found quite a nice balance as well. Good job!

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          we can also collaborate ;)

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            Sounds good :) Shoot me an email 📧.

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      Thank you! There still a lot of things that I didn't touch yet.

      Like how drones with image recognition can help to grow better crops.
      or how robots used to pick grapes(which are very sensitive)
      and many more!

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    Love this! Thanks for sharing, Arthur. I've read a few now and enjoy what I've seen.

    How has this content been received? Is it popular with readers?

    I'm interested in starting a substack or other newsletter on food technology/sustainability. I find the topic fascinating. Humanity needs to improve a lot as the effects from migration and environmental challenges compound.

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      How has this content been received?

      well, most Hackernoon readers are technies, so they find it quite useful.

      at the same point, I don't invest a lot of time promoting my articles. Only recently I start to learn how to use SEO in my advance.

      Most articles get at least 200 views because of the Hackernoon distribution machine, but I have some hits. An article that I did in one day - https://hackernoon.com/machine-learning-food-datasets-collection-fz5i130w0 get a lot of shares and I scored 24 414 views(equal to full 15 days of reading)

      < Is it popular with readers?

      I'm still using writing articles mostly for my own pleasure. I'm reading and exploring a lot of things related to food and I want to share it with others.

      < I'm interested in starting a substack or other newsletter on food

      we can try to collaborate. I'm setting up an email server right now on Amazon SES.
      while substack might look easier to start - I still want to be able to "owe" my content. because all projects have rules and policies. At some point, Mailchimp decide to ban the newsletter that my company was producing. it was hacker's attack on us. And we have promises to our clients(in pandemic times...) And after a month of struggling - we moved away from Mailchimp. When we stop paying them - they deleted all design assets from their servers! so all archives/images/logos were gone.
      only because of my paranoia - we saved copies of our HTML, so content was saved. But images have gone (even while we paid them on monthly basis)

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        Love this. Thanks for sharing, Arthur. That's a good point about owning the content. As far as I understood, on substack you still own your content and list but perhaps I'm mistaken there?

        Thanks again man!

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          While you still owe your content on substack, you are still limited by their platform.

          1. by publishing your content there - you improving their own SEO, not yours
          2. you cant change the layout of pages (for example, your archives get a lot of traffic and you decide to put some https://www.carbonads.net/ into the sidebar to get additional monetization)
          3. other ways of monetization are limited too.
          4. there was a situation when Patreon decided to ban some accounts because of a violation of some rules. I think Jordan Peterson was affected too. another example: you can grow your FB page, but when you get banned - you will lose everything related to that page. Instead, if you have a subscription list on your USB drive - even if something happens, you can pass that USB drive to your children as an asset.
          5. last but not least. you cant control the flow of subscription forms.
          6. if you decide to exit and sell your newsletter - I don't think it would be possible to see the Substack account. here is a marketplace for selling newsletters, if you are interested
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            for some reason link to the marketplace gets deleted, google "duuce"

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            this list can be easily extended :)

            affiliate marketing is hard, harder to organize content production for big teams, hard to verify that links that you put into your newsletters aren't in spam blacklists, etc.

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            Thank you so much, this is amazing, Arthur! Really appreciate this great info. I'll make sure to check out Duuce.

            Gives me a lot to think about. Is there a service that you'd recommend instead of Substack to avoid these issues?

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              as a developer - i'm building such kind of service myself :)
              right now I'm configurating a new server in Germany for our needs. later it will be connected with Amazon SES and ready to send some emails.

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      we'll have a huge issue related to food because of russia invasion to Ukraine. hopefully technology will help to cope with it a little bit