@dshan Hey Derek! Early subscribers all came from Twitter and word of mouth. I've been doing this for four months and we had around 900 subscribers from just that. I'm working on new ways of reaching people now that it has slowed but it's a hard one to crack since email isn't exactly public. I'm hoping to get other folks to write about the newsletter right now. Feedback has been really good; people love Charged and find the news far too hard to keep up with. One idea I'm kicking around is building a media company alongside Charged. Something like The Verge or The Next Web but with a real community twist when the users can control the content that appears on the homepage a lot more as well as actually contributing to the story. It's early days on this, but I want to help cut through the noise for your everyday person. I have HEAPS of thoughts around top quality news while keeping it consumable by your every day person so this is something I'd really like to do. Sponsor was a trial that I ran with a local company for a month; they reached out after reading the newsletter and being fans. I've considered a few ways of monetising; sponsorships or really small monthly fees for subscribers (you know, something like $1-4) but right now that's not my primary aim. I think building something alongside the newsletter would be far better and could grow it significantly. I'm weird when it comes to consuming the news - I have everything in a feed reader but tend to get all my news from Twitter. It's far more real time!

@ZachSB Thanks a million, Zach!

@syswarren funny that's exactly how I do it! haha

@sleinadsanoj I like that this is a thing 😀

@ow @sleinadsanoj "Charged Newsletter better served with cereals"

@syswarren @ow maybe you should think about starting a "charged cereal" side-business, Owen. ("Charged Cereal" actually works really perfectly as a name as well...)

@sleinadsanoj @syswarren *runs off to get trademark*

@pjrvs 👊 Thanks Paul

@jedgar king of email

@webjoe I've totally thought about using it - Curated looks awesome! My concern was that it appears you can only use their templates right now which makes it slightly less unique. I think I'll check it out though :) Our open and click rates are pretty awesome right now. Around 70% of people open Charged every week.

@josephkerns Yeah, agree here. It's actually linked in the about page, but I'd surface it more readily. Once I saw it I was in.

@dshan @josephkerns Thanks! Totally - what I really need there is a more obvious screenshot and link. People certainly love the newsletter once they see it so this should be more obvious. I'm going to work on redesigning the landing page - I put it up as just a rough launch page so I could focus on actually writing the content :)