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Notocat — Fully-featured newsletter platform built on Notion
You are finally able to write your newsletter issues in Notion! You can then use Notocat to send these issues to your subscribers. Notocat comes jam-packed with features: issue customization, custom domains, branded subscribe forms, sending analytics, and more
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Hi @razvanilin - probably the most interesting product I landed on today. My team has like 3 newsletters, one being managed on a partner portal, one via intercom, and one on substrack. So I definitely get the value of the product. Few points of feedback - Home page (website) mentions analytics, would be good to show a screenshot of what type of analytics (for folks like me, who've moved away from a getrevue due to analytics - it's key before I'd setup). For newsletter communities like Substrack, the community feeds off each other, do you have such intentions with your product? And lastly - super cute pricing calculator slider! Congrats on the launch & all the best!
@neilroy91 Hey Neil! Your feedback is greatly appreciated and also many thanks for describing your use case. Super helpful 🙌
I'll make sure to add more details about the analytics part because that's something I'm actually super passionate about too. For now, we have the standard opens, bounce, complaints, link tracking, email clients used, and platforms where users come from. We will soon add a link click count for each individual link, subscribe form conversion rates and more details about unsubscribe stats to see where users drop from.
Regarding the community point of view, yes, we plan to work towards this! The next big item on the list is to offer the option for users to create their publication sites, the same as Substack does. Once that's in place, the next step will be to try and drive as much traffic to all the publications on our platform so it becomes a space for exploration for visitors.
Lots of exciting things ahead 🚀
Let me know if I can provide any specific info about other parts of the platform ✌️
Beautifully designed and simple to use! I'm a big fan of Notion tools for SaaS products, and now I can send my newsletters in Notion! The best part is that it's super easy to get another team member to write the content because Notion is so simple to use. Great work Raz, can't wait to see this product evolve!
@dinkydani21 Thanks Danielle! 😻 Eagerly waiting for your feedback after you send your first newsletters 💌
Great product, well executed by @razvanilin ! The UI is super clean, I just love those gorgeous cat icons 😍
Notocat certainly seems impressive. At present, I'm utilizing Substack. Could you elaborate on how Notocat stands out when compared to Substack?
@andrew_laurentiu Thanks Andrew! There are a few differences at the moment between the two platforms. The most notable one is that Notocat lets you use Notion to write newsletter issues. Notocat is more aimed to SaaS business and it offers an API for automatic subscriber syncing. The good thing about Substack is that they let viewers see your previous issues and that's something we're still working on at Notocat. Also, Substack allows newsletter monetization, which is not something we offer with Notocat.
Hope this answers your question, but please let me know if I can clarify any specific points ✌️
Congrats on the launch and thanks!! I've been running my newsletter on a few platforms earlier and they were either lacking customisation or required copying for each edition + uploading images and adding new content was a pain for each edition, and I kept my content in Notion... Excited to try!
@maxslch Thanks Max 😻 Glad to hear we struck a chord there with Notion. Let me know when give it a try and I'll happily help with the setup if needed 🙌
Hey guys! This looks cool. I'm using Substack right now though. What would you say are the benefits of Notocat vis-a-vis Substack or perhaps Beehiiv? And how easy/hard would the migration and learning curve be? Only asking because as a solo-founder, I really need to be able to optimize my time and switching costs are *real*!! But it definitely does look cool and i'm bookmarking it to when I start a new newsletter or am ready to move :) 👏 @razvanilin @kotchanipha_pk 👏
@kotchanipha_pk @robinsinghvi Hey Robin, thanks for dropping by 👋 Notocat is indeed in the same space as Substack and Beehiiv. I'd say the biggest advantage of Notocat at the moment is the ability to keep and write the newsletter issues in Notion. One other aspect that I built as part of the platform is to easily plug in multiple newsletters in the same account. Perfect for SaaS owners with multiple businesses. Also, unlike Substack, Notocat has an open API that can be used to automate things like users signing up for your product and want to add them automatically to a newsletter.
On the disadvantages side, Notocat does not yet have a publication site where viewers can browse past issues. This is something we are currently working on and will be available soon though.
We will also create guides for migrations very soon. It will be possible to export subscribers as a CSV from the other services and then upload this to Notocat (not available just yet)
If you have some features that are valuable for your business, please let me know. I'm still at the exploration stage so would like to hear how I can make the platform more valuable for users ✌️
Absolutely love this product. I am a huge Notion fan and now can finally send my emails from there as well 💪 Great job. Thank you so much for building this.
@sobedominik Thank you Dominik!! 🙏 Your help and feedback along the way was super helpful to get to this stage with the product ✌️
Congratulations on the launch, Raz! 🎉
Notocat sounds like a game-changer, particularly for those already invested in the Notion ecosystem. The seamless integration and the ability to track reader interactions stand out.
Kudos on your dedication and effort! Keep up the great work! 👍💫
This is actually pretty cool - I was looking for a tool recently that let me create newsletters in notion and send them and found some options, but nothing i particularly loved. This looks promising! Congrats on the launch!
@britt_joiner Thank you Brittany! 😻 Let me know if you give it a try and if I can help with anything ✌️
Similar to many individuals, I also hold an affinity for Notion. Furthermore, I am an avid proponent of constructing products atop platforms for various compelling reasons. Allow me to extend my congratulations on the recent launch, and I wish you fruitful endeavors in your pursuits.
Hi @razvanilin
Such a cool idea! I am a fan of notion myself, so I would definitely try this out. Will Notocat also add expand to new features supporting notion? Or is this limited to publication and newsletter?
Congratulations of the launch! 🎉🎉
@warda_bukhari1 Hey Warda 👋 We plan to expand the support for Notion for sure. The first thing on the list now is to allow email scheduling through a calendar view from the template. Open to new ideas, though, so if you give it a try please let us know what integration feature would work best for your use-case 😁
@alexstyl Thanks for all your feedback along the way and for pushing me to launch, Alex! 😻
@fryingneurons Thanks Nick! Notocat will now help with the conversion rates for Notion haha
@fiona_qin1 Thanks Fiona! Really hoping that the platform will help as many people as possible 😁
I had no idea I wanted to run my mailing list out of Notion until today! Very cool idea. Definitely feels valuable to add a tool for a team to use inside of a tool they're already using every day. Excited to test this out!
@timmort Thanks Tim! Glad to hear this is something that could be valuable to you 😻
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