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Switched to Substack... and I'm LOVING IT 😍

Yesterday, I was looking around IH a saw so many people with Substack newsletters. I thought to myself, what is so great about Substack?

The problem before... πŸ˜₯

At the time I was using ConvertKit for buildfaster.co's newsletter. It did the job, but IMO it had a bad UI and not very friendly for my subscribers to use.

How did it go?

So after an hour or two I added all my posts, transferred subscribers, and published it on: buildfaster.substack.com

And boy is it great! It has a much neater UI and great "blog" features. I feel like this is gonna to great for my newsletter and help me get more readers.

What do you think about it?

If you have a Substack newsletter or have seen some in the past, I'd like to hear your thoughts on it and how I can improve mine.

Thanks for your advice!

on July 28, 2020
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    I also have been using Substack. Super easy to use and looks nice.

    However, I'd love to see some improvement on the formatatting tools, as well as options for polls/surveys inside de newsletter, for getting NPS and general satisfaction.

    Great tool, though. Highly recommend it.

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      Same here. Embedded forms would be pretty cool! πŸ‘

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    Substack is a great platform to quickly get started with newsletter. Your newsletter looks great on substack! I don't think there is anything as such you need to improve.

    I am currently working on mine (it's called Psych) and just need some work to finish things up.

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      Cool! Hey I have a question. How do you add your name to your newsletter. On the sign up page you put in your comment, it says β€œA Substack newsletter by Viabhav”

      Mine just says β€œA Substack Newsletter”

      How did you get yours to do that?

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        You can do that in the settings. Take a look at the section called "Publication Details".

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          Thanks, I see that section but can't find which one to edit. None of them worked.

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            Edit the Email Sender Name Property.

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              Yeah, I just changed it to "Brayden W" and the homepage still looks like this:

              Screenshot

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                Well, That's strange. At this point, I would suggest you to get in touch with their support. Maybe they know why is that happening πŸ˜•

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                  Okay. Thanks for your help @vd!

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    Welcome aboard to Substack. It looks great.

    The best way to improve, imho, is to just keep writing.

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      Thanks! I’m releasing the 5th Update this Friday πŸ˜„