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If you don't count the time to learn and the time to set it up, how do you get to $100-$150 a month to self-host for a tiny website like that? I mean 25,000 people or 20,000 members is literally nothing for a text only website like a blog unless they all arrive in the same few minutes.
It's not a website, it's spam services that stay legit enough to not be blocked by email hosts.
I've never known anyone who has wanted an emailed newsletter. They're always hidden in signups and online purchases. They hang around because people are too lazy to look for the 2 point font that says "unsubscribe".
Her website is a website though
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
The blog software she uses allows sending newsletters
https://ghost.org/docs/newsletters/
Said newsletters are recaps
I agree that 99.9% of newsletters are just spam, but in this very specific instance she’s discussing the pricing of using publishing/newsletter services vs self hosting. Pretty much no spammer will go through the effort of self hosting
We want Spammers to stick with Substack, then.
Thinking about it, e-mails are useful for downloading and reading later, if one isn't consistently connected to the internet. The main reason I stopped with e-mail newsletters is that, eventually, most only gave previews of the content with links back to the website.
Same reason I don't use e-billing - the actual bill is basically NEVER in the e-mail in any useful form.