Archive
September 2023
July 2023
June 2023
May 2023
- Exploring Reddit essays
- Complaining about Substack for fun and profit
- Try out the Yakread pre-release
- How Yakread's RSS recommendation algorithm works
- How to deal with short-form posts?
April 2023
- What if I started a nonprofit?
- On the mehness of Yakread's acquisition funnel
- RSS is great for recommendations
- Be indulgent
March 2023
- My home-grown product analytics dashboard
- The world's finest onboarding flow
- Into the shell I go
- Stuff I read that maybe you'd like too
February 2023
- Help me sponsor your newsletter
- How to beat social media's network effects
- (Re)introducing Yakread: a smart newsletter reading app
- In defense of recommendation
January 2023
- I'm going to delete most of Yakread's features
- Funding software innovation
- TikTok for reading
- You can help unbundle social media
- Replies and referrals
December 2022
- Advertise your newsletter in Yakread
- Cross-platform RSS recommendations on Yakread
- How to rebuild social media on top of RSS
- Discord is a decent place for forums
November 2022
- What's better, chronological or algorithmic timelines?
- Designing the perfect timeline
- Substack can fix their lock-in if they want to
- Healthy, low-prep information meals
- Introducing Yakread: a simple reader app for the unbundled web
October 2022
- Discord could almost replace Twitter
- Join the tools-for-online-speech community
- It's Working [Anakin emoji]
- Cross-platform recommendations
- Queuey queues for chewy chewing
September 2022
- Moar Discovery
- Merging Findka Essays
- The Sample algorithm update; upcoming Yakread features
- What's your favorite email provider?
- Sharing and notifications in Yakread
August 2022
- Read your tweets and books in Yakread
- Yakread is live
- The time of Yakread is at hand
- Flexible themes in Platypub
- Newsletter directories, subscriber import integrations, and you
July 2022
- Some publisher console updates
- Demo: submitting a newsletter to The Sample (silent movie)
- Onboarding flow
- Reader app, automation, more about Substack recommendations
- I can't believe I'm about to build another dumb web app
- Tech and democracy
- Announcements for 4 July 2022
June 2022
- Substack recommendations, paid acquisition, consulting
- The Sample updates for 20 June 2022
- Just published "We need better tools for online speech"
- We need better tools for online speech
- Publisher report for 7 June 2022
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