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102 sats \ 5 replies \ @supratic 9 Jul \ on: SubStacker News - Territories as newsletters meta
SubStacker sound awful... let's keep the sub for the subTerritories!
I think the biggest mistake on this idea is to drive and promote SN as a unidirectional publishers' platform (like substack). I still seeing it as a valid alternative for Reddit more than substack... where anyone can contribute to a community. Or even better, just give the option to the territory founder to decide if guests posts are welcome or not. Selecting publishers for closed territories could be another option.
SN is a community hub, is a social space for everyone to be heard, it offers bidirectional conversations.
The newsletter could be a great tool for territory founders to drive insights in the inbox of people that don't have the time to come and visit so often. Receiving updates via email is a user retention tool for territory funders, but not a toll that you market or monetize on specifically.
Custom domains are already in the make, is a nice option to have, but not indispensable. I'd rather focus on providing a white label option, where territory funders can change logo and theme to reflect their brand would probably be appreciated.
SN is a community hub, is a social space for everyone to be heard, it offers bidirectional conversations.
This is a really good point.
I sometimes wonder how much we can separate the community of stacker news from the platform. The community of people here is unique: weirdos from around the world who are excited by paying to post and getting zapped.
The platform is maybe more versatile. People have been hunting for an easy way to bring micro transactions into the internet for decades. SN is one of the smoothest implementations of this that I've ever seen.
It excels at bidirectional conversations, but could be effective with something that looks more like a broadcast, too.
I take your point, though, that territories may not be the best way to do this.
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that territories may not be the best way to do this.
Not at all, they are if you provide the options. With SubStacker approach, looks' like you aimed to change what SN has been build for. A communities' hub. This does not mean that, provided with the right options, a territory funder could manage a territory as substack like, where the founder is the only one posting and sending our newsletters to the territory subscribers (that have an email attached t the account).
I'd not underevaluate the option to allow stackers t create new subterritories, or contribute to existing territories;
This newsletter option should be available in the same way to other territories managed as community and provide them the same option to its subscribers.
It's about priorities, and I'd always prioritize the community. Yes SN is a business and need ways to bring more users first, then monetize if the aims to remain sustainable and relevant for the long run. Play well and it will happen.
Summarized: territories could have the options to:
- Enable subterritories creation1
- Allow posting to --> select
@stacker(s)/everyone/justMe - Send Newsletter via Email2 -->
Weekly/biweekly/Montly/Custom(ie. 21 days)
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I know how to automate it with AI, but, it'd be one or two weeks work because you'd want NLP combined with inverse chatbot and then work the word distance math, not chatbot spitting out bs. I'm not ready to spend that kind of time on the process yet.
Right now, I yolo'd a script to parse text from the index (where I just c&p the index entries I like), then I look up the post ID and i throw it all in a spreadsheet. Because of this manual process I get to read/bookmark every SN post I like other than the AI ones too, because I look at every title of every post of the entire week right now. So I get personal added value from doing it manually; besides that it keeps me sane to have something to not automate.
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