300 Subscribers

About a week ago, I hit 300 subscribers. Growth has been pretty steady, boosted by a couple of widely-shared blogs on Reddit and Facebook. 300 subscribers feels like a solid milestone, and I've used it to make some behind-the-scenes changes. These include:

1. Switched hosting to Ghost(Pro). I can spend hours dealing with server glitches and upgrades and so on, but I'd rather write. This has been a good move, and has freed me up to think about the project more broadly, rather than focussing on technical fire-fighting.
2. Removed welcome emails. Yes, indeed. I realised I don't like welcome emails (and even less do I like welcome email sequences). So why subject my users to the?. Instead, new sign-ups are redirected to a friendly welcome page. This has also removed the need to use MailerLite, so Ghost now does all the work.
3. General rethinking of strategy for the project. Some of my plans are waiting on Ghost's new "custom plans" feature, which will allow me to have membership tiers, and do some other interesting things.