Rad Letters

A directory of interesting and informative newsletters

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Rad Letters exists for you to find interesting newsletters!

June 8, 2020 Published the first few blog posts

Asked a few newsletter writers/curators/makers if they wanted to be interviewed a few weeks ago and started building the blog. Finally felt comfortable enough with the blog feature to start publishing the interviews so I finished up the proofreading/editing of the interviews in progress and published them!

May 28, 2020 200 newsletters added!

After posting to Indie Hackers, Hacker News, various subreddits, and two Facebook groups, Rad Letters has finally reached 200 newsletters. I know there’s plenty more newsletters to add and I’m looking forward to finding those and creating one of the largest directories of email newsletters.

May 9, 2020 Ready for the first launch

radletters.com finally came out of the "pendingDelete" status yesterday and I was able to buy it. Added some finishing touches to the app, set it up on Heroku, and now I'm ready to get it out there and get some feedback on it! Next up is figuring out what direction to take with it.

May 3, 2020 Built the MVP

Built a working prototype where I can upload a CSV that contains a list of newsletters, links to the subscribe page, links to images, and tags for topic categories. And of course built the page where users and view and filter the newsletters by topic. Still waiting on the domain name to be available (sometime this week hopefully) and then I'll do a soft launch while I add a few extras.

April 26, 2020 Changed the name and tech stack

Gave it some thought and concluded that I'd rather spend less time building this project than learning more of Elixir / Phoenix. Switched to Rails since it'll help me build it quicker and hassle-free, and I don't need all of the benefits that Elixir provides. Also switched the name from "Newsledders" to "Rad Letters".

April 22, 2019 Started working on the idea

I wanted to find more newsletters to sign up for that I might be interested in. I didn't see any one place to find a list of newsletters that might be relevant to me or that other people recommended. I decided I was ready to start a new project and figured I'd try this out to see how it goes. Came up with a goofy name that I could buy a .com domain for, created a list of newsletters that I'm subscribed to, started a new Elixir / Phoenix app, and here we are!

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