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Ernie Smith
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Just tried self-hosting this. Pretty painless—looks like it has a lot of potential. And given that not many things support Bluesky right now, that support is clutch. Great work thus far!
Postiz
Your ultimate AI social media scheduling tool
Ernie Smith
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I wish you best of luck here, but it doesn’t feel there for me yet.
There are a lot of tools in the curated email space that are much more mature than this, including Curated (https://curated.co) and Goodbits (https://goodbits.io). Both of these tools have been around for a decade or longer. While they cost money, the experience on both of these tools clearly earns your money.
I think that...
CuratedLetters
Build your newsletter in minutes
Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add "udm=14" to the search URL.
&udm=14
A quick way to get an AI free search without any extra work
Ernie Smith
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Not going to lie: I have zero regrets about using a profanity in the tagline, which ties into the bigger issues with the “enshittification” of products by large companies. (It says “disenshittification” upon the suggestion of Cory Doctorow, coiner of the term, BTW.) I did concede to people who may not want to share that line with their parents or their coworkers and created a safe-for-work...
&udm=14
A quick way to get an AI free search without any extra work
Ernie Smith
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Hey there, I recently did a pretty decent intro to self-hosted tools on my website Tedium (Read More
Ernie Smith
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Hey there, I recently did a pretty decent intro to self-hosted tools on my website Tedium (https://tedium.co/2023/03/04/sel...), and of the tools I tried, ActivePieces was easily one of the best.
I also found that when I ran into issues, they were one of the most responsive when it came to support. They reached out for clarification on my issue and were able to offer useful advice.
At a time...
Activepieces
No-code business automation with more privacy
Ernie Smith
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I’ve been using this on my two newsletters for a while now and I’ve particularly found it a great way to give my secondary newsletter, MidRange, a boost. That has only 530ish subscribers these days and is intended as a low-stakes affair. For that audience it has given me a great way to monetize a smaller, but super passionate audience for my writing.
I also use this on Tedium, which has around...
Plug & Play by Swapstack
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Ernie Smith
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I’ve been using the Paved Ad Network for a couple of years; I was able to integrate it into my custom template setup easily, and even before they got the recent ad-designer tool, it was awesome to have a template that matched my custom design. The team is really doing something great. (And now they have @kampheyapproved on board, who is also pretty great as well.)
Paved Ad Network
Put your newsletter advertising on autopilot
Ernie Smith
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Swapstack rocks! They’re innovating in some important ways in the newsletter space, and this is just one of them. Looking forward to giving this a try!
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This long-form newsletter, active since 2015, takes on the questions that nobody thought to ask and makes them interesting and compelling, uncovering fascinating stories along the way. The design of the website has been refreshed for the first time since 2019.
Tedium
A newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail
Ernie Smith
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Hey all, this has perhaps been a long time coming, but I’ve been very active in the newsletter space for many years and have many hundreds of issues of Tedium to my name. This has been a deep-dive focus of mine for nearly 7 years, and I hope to keep it going a lot longer.
Tedium relies on sponsorships to keep going, as well as advertising (our partner is BuySellAds), and we sort of treat the...
Tedium
A newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail
Ernie Smith
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Hi all, I’ve been a frequent user of EmailOctopus (I use them with my newsletter Tedium, located at https://tedium.co/, which has more than 12,000 subscribers) and have been regularly working with them since late 2016—when it was literally just two people on the team.
I figured out early that their value proposition was significantly better than MailChimp. It’s been impressive to see them...
EmailOctopus
Email marketing made easy
Ernie Smith
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I’ve taken part in one of these and found the process interesting. They’re also super-responsive. Really hope it catches on.
Pairagraph
Clubhouse for the written word
Ernie Smith
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As the editor of Tedium (https://tedium.co) I’ve been using Swapstack for a little while and I have found the Jakes to be incredibly easy to work with, and their work is such a great alternative to the subscription model, which doesn’t necessarily fit with everyone’s needs. This is the right model for the creator economy and I look forward to seeing where they take it next.
Swapstack
A marketplace connecting newsletters & brands
Ernie Smith
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As a journalist, if you use this product to send me a message, I will throw your message in the spam folder and possibly tweet about it.
PR Sequences
Automagically email journalists when they mention keywords
Ernie Smith
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This product should not exist. These guys make email worse.
Bitbounce
Email paywall
