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by cerbasict12 3657 days ago
Is the money from advertising on the website or the newsletter, or the cost for people to get the newsletter?
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khuknows 3657 days ago
99% of the money comes from the newsletter sponsorships. Newsletter sponsorships generally can earn wayyyy more than website ads. Incase you're interested in more details, the newsletter has ~10,000 subscribers (~50% daily, ~50% weekly) and the site gets about 30k uniques a month.
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khuknows 3657 days ago
Also if anyone is wondering why the costs are so high, the main expenses are CloudFront (huge HUGE gifs) and Mailchimp. I'm sure I could reduce the costs to $50-100ish a month, but laziness.
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cerbasict12 3657 days ago
Great work! I was wondering if you earn more by charing a buck for the daily post. I wonder how it would work?
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