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Substack or Twitter's Revue?

by Arpit Mathur

I am looking to start a newsletter around building software in general and the ideas and technology behind my app Jax, a chatbot that teaches programming, in particular. I subscribe to many Substack based newsletters but was curious if anyone has any experience with Twitter's Revue.

As a heavy Twitter user, I was tempted to give Revue a try but was curious if people had any thoughts on it.

Arpit Mathur's avatarArpit Mathur
on March 11, 2021
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    I've been using Revue for over a year and I like it. But the platform still has the major, longstanding issues @karngyan mentioned. Revue said they'll work on https support but there are no updates.

    PaoloAmoroso's avatar PaoloAmoroso
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    6 years ago
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    Here's my 2 cents on Revue.

    I have been using revue for the past month. (https://email.karngyan.email)

    Pros.

    • They have killed it on the UI.
    • The editor is easy to use.
    • The analytics is useful.
    • GDPR ✅
    • Paid Newsletters(Stripe) - I have not yet enabled, but this should be good as well.

    Cons.

    • What they lack in right now is email deliverability, which is again fine till you have not enabled a custom domain. Problems start right here. If you're not planning on adding a custom domain. Just go with it.
      • For email deliverability, you can add SPF Records, DKIM passes as well. But DMARC Alignment is not possible as of now on their app, which affects the email deliverability which in turn means you lose subscribers. Most of the times my confirmation email lands in spam.
      • SSL/HTTPS is not supported out of the box. I had to move my name servers to Cloudfare in order to do that.

    I guess they're working on these.

    karngyan's avatar karngyan
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    6 years ago
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      Erm if DKIM and SPF are set-up and pass, then DMARC would be aligned.

      Do you mean you just can't set-up DMARC inside of Substack?

      td_evans's avatar td_evans
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      6 years ago
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    I have been using Revue for the past 6 weeks for running my newsletter.

    I evaluated all the top names and I chose Revue mainly because of it's clipper feature that easily allows me to curate for each week. It was so much easier to build a system around it.

    I tried Substack too, it felt more like a blog and it seemed redundant to the blog I already have.

    Hkr195's avatar Hkr195
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    6 years ago
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    I’ve published 2 issues on Revue and have decided I’ll have moved up to something more custom probably before I’ve published 10. It’s quick and easy to get started, but the editing and reading experience feel so subpar to me. Can’t really compare to Substack because I haven’t tried it, but as a reader I feel a bit bored with so many Substack newsletters looking exactly the same.

    Another thing to consider is that you have a Twitter audience. Now that Twitter owns Revue, you can bet they’ll be working on some interesting integrations.

    alexanderg's avatar alexanderg
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      so, I guess the limitation that you're concerned about is visual design? In that case, have you looked at Ghost?

      dory_ng's avatar dory_ng
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      6 years ago
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        I think that's the direction I'm going in, here's some more context: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-our-customer-migrated-from-substack-to-wordpress-and-10x-ed-his-audience-5677352884?commentId=-MVSI0mRiLUOE-0OvDe1

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