[neural_thing]

(obligatory shilling)

If we are missing a feature you want, come help us build it!

https://substack.com/jobs

[xtlyths]

I've heard people reference this platform before, but I have no idea what it is. I just looked at the substack.com, and I feel like I still don't understand it.

Is it a blogging platform mixed with a newsletter tool?

Either I missed it entirely, or the landing page assumes I know what it is before I get there.

Even the about page is buried in "link soup" at the bottom of the page and just leads to hand waving and eventually a short story about something in 1833.

I don't know what needs to be built, but I do know that I don't know what this is.

[netizen-936824]

From the first paragraph on the linked jobs page:

>We make it simple for writers to publish to an email list that they own, get discovered on the web, and charge for subscriptions.

Sounds to me like a blogging and newsletter platform with subscription fees paid to writers

[samglover97]

I get the impression that the SEO on substack needs working on - sometimes when I google someone (e.g. 'Scott Alexander' or 'Matt Yglesias') their old pages with their old writing will come up before their substack page.

[neural_thing]

Yeah we for sure need to improve in that department