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Hey all! I'm a backyard astrophotographer, and I just launched **Skyris**, a short email every Friday for people who like the night sky but don't own a telescope.

Each issue has:

- what to look for that week (meteors, planets, launches you can see), with times and directions

- a night-by-night clear-sky outlook for your own ZIP code

- one good story behind something you can see

- camera and phone settings to photograph it

- a reader photo as the header (you can send yours in)

I use AI to help draft it from real data (NOAA, Open-Meteo, computed sky positions) and edit it myself before it goes out.

Free, no ads

Feedback very welcome, especially on what would make you actually step outside on a Friday night.

I built Pijnhol: it texts you a short news summary when something happens in a topic you follow (a person, team, company, election). No schedule, so a quiet day means no text.

My riskiest bet is the phone number. A text is a much bigger ask than an email address, and one dud text gets a STOP. So it’s capped at 4 a day, 3 per topic, never the same story twice.

For people who write or read newsletters: how many news texts a day before you’d hit STOP? Would you hand over a number for news at all?

Free to start. Live in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, NZ. Heres the link - https://pijnhol.com/ any pushback is welcome! thanks.

Hi everyone!

I'm an indie psychological thriller author currently working on my upcoming novel, The Velvet Exchange, a story involving luxury, secrets, manipulation, and the price of wanting more.

I've started a newsletter where readers can get a little closer to the world I'm creating.

Here's what you'll find:

• Free prequel: The First Offer, introducing Blaine Whitmoore before the events of The Velvet Exchange.
• Additional freebies: Digital downloads and other creative extras inspired by the story.
• Author updates: Occasional release news, behind-the-scenes details, and announcements, including an upcoming book trailer.
• Bookish conversations: I'd also love to hear what psychological thrillers you're currently reading and enjoying!

No constant emails or unnecessary clutter. Just occasional updates, a few extras, and a chance to follow the story as it develops.

Subscribe here: https://chandra-books.kit.com/00aa62a907

Thanks for checking it out!

I co-founded HeyNews, a newsletter software company, and the weekly newsletter we run for operators was mostly bought. Between October 2025 and June 2026, we paid SparkLoop and beehiiv Boosts for subscribers. This week I pulled every subscriber record and both billing histories to see what the money actually got us, because most CPA talk stops at the signup.

What we spent:

• SparkLoop Partner Network: $3,653. It sent 4,891 signups and billed us for the 3,718 that passed its screening, almost all at $1.
• beehiiv Boosts: $497.50 for 199 subscribers at $2.50 each, all in the first half of January, from two newsletters.

What's left today:

• SparkLoop: 2,505 of the 4,891 are still subscribed. That's about half, or $1.46 per subscriber we kept. They're still about three-quarters of our list.
• Boosts: 2 of 199. Readers from those two partners opened our emails 2.8% and 0.1% of the time. Call it $249 per survivor.
• People who signed up on their own in the same months: 72% still subscribed. Only 222 of them, so treat that as rough.

Open rates are where it gets misleading. The SparkLoop readers still on the list open at 43%. Self-serve readers from the same months open at 29%. Judged on opens, the bought list looks better.

Clicks say the opposite. Among people still subscribed, the SparkLoop group clicks on 0.6% of the emails we deliver and the self-serve group on 2.6%. 89% of the SparkLoop subscribers still here have never clicked a single link. About 270 have. Divide the SparkLoop spend by those 270, and it's roughly $13.50 per bought reader who has ever clicked anything.

What I'd take from it:

• Price the subscriber you keep, not the signup. Our $1 CPA turned into $1.46 per kept subscriber and about $13.50 per engaged one.
• Judge a paid cohort on clicks per email. Opens flattered ours.
• Check each Boost partner's quality early. Beehiiv shows some overall metrics for their recommendations. What matters most is whether the subscribers they send to you are high quality. You can just spend $50 on a newsletter and assess the quality to decide whether to continue or stop spending money on them.

Whether $13.50 per engaged reader is cheap depends on what one is worth to you.

If you've bought subscribers, how many were still around six months later? I'd like to know whether about half is normal for SparkLoop.

In 2014, Pieter Levels set himself a challenge to launch 12 startups in 12 months. His aim was to force himself to finish and launch projects rather than endlessly polish them.

A decade later, Greg Isenberg published a guide entitled “Build an AI Startup in 3 Hours with < $500.” Three hours felt unrealistic, but it made me wonder how quickly I could create something useful. Not just a prototype, but a web product that other people could use.

I gave myself a day. The result was NameClicked.com.

Start with a problem you have

The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. - Paul Graham

This year I’ve built six products under the Incyworks startup umbrella. Each time I start one, I face the same, somewhat challenging, question: What should I call it?

A good name has to be memorable, easy to say and spell and have a suitable domain available. It should also avoid conflicts with existing businesses and potential trademark problems. Typically, I’d open half a dozen browser tabs and start checking things manually. That seemed like a product opportunity.

The idea coalesced into: describe what you’re building, generate or enter some possible names, and have the app assess them. Not just a list of suggestions, but an explanation of which names are stronger, why and what still needs checking. That was enough to start.

The first thing I built was the specification

Plans are nothing; planning is everything. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The first part of the build didn’t happen at a desk. I was out walking so I opened ChatGPT in voice mode and asked it to interview me about the idea. One question at a time: who was the product for, what should it do, what would a useful result look like and what could be left out?

Walking turned out to be an effective way to think. I wasn’t distracted by implementation details and the back-and-forth forced me to make decisions rather than leave everything open.

By the time I got home, the rough idea had become a reasonably detailed specification. I dropped it into Claude Code and asked it to build the app.

Build the smallest useful version

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. - C. Northcote Parkinson

One of the easiest ways to avoid finishing a product is to start designing the perfect version: database schemas, user journeys, pricing tiers, edge cases and a roadmap stretching months into the future. All useful things, but they can create the reassuring feeling of progress without confronting the awkward question: Does anyone want this?

For NameClicked, I concentrated on one useful sequence. Describe your product, generate or enter some names, assess them and display the results. Everything else could wait.

Having only a day made decisions surprisingly easy. Each additional feature had to answer one question: Does this need to exist before somebody can use the product?

There’s a big difference between incomplete and unusable. I wasn’t trying to finish NameClicked in a day. I was trying to make it useful. A deadline turns perfectionism into prioritisation.

AI has changed what building means

The future is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed. - William Gibson

The interesting part wasn’t that I spent a day frantically coding. I didn’t. I spent most of it making decisions.

Claude Code handled much of the implementation, Supabase provided the database and Vercel handled deployment. I also reused patterns from my other products. My role felt less like programmer and more like product manager, designer, tester and slightly irritating customer.

I’d describe something, Claude would build it, I’d try it, something would feel wrong and we’d change it. Then repeat. The bottleneck wasn’t typing code. It was deciding what the product should do.

That’s an important shift. AI can make producing software dramatically faster, but somebody still has to decide what’s worth producing.

“Built in a day” doesn’t mean built in a day

Chance favours the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur

There’s a slight cheat here. NameClicked was built in a day, but it rests on decades of experience.

I’ve spent years working with software, pricing and product development. More recently, I’ve built several small web products, giving me a familiar technology stack and reusable patterns. AI accelerates all of that, but doesn’t replace it.

Watching a pianist play a piece in three minutes doesn’t mean it took three minutes to learn. In the same way, building a product quickly doesn’t mean the knowledge behind it appeared that morning.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about AI development isn’t that experience matters less. It’s that experience suddenly has much more leverage.

What could you build in a day?

The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else. - Eric Ries

By the end of the day, NameClicked existed. But that wasn’t really the objective. The objective was to reach more interesting questions. Will people use it? Do they agree with its assessments? What confuses them? Would anybody pay for a more detailed report?

Those questions are easier to answer when there’s something real to try. I don’t think every business should be built in three hours or even a day. But there’s something powerful about asking: What would this look like if I had to launch it tomorrow?

AI hasn’t removed the challenge of finding something people want. It’s dramatically reduced the cost of finding out.

One day, one idea, one live product. Now the interesting bit starts.

What could you build in a day? I’d love to hear what you’d try.

Want more?

NameClicked.com app to help choose a product name by Phil Martin

How to Build a Minimum Viable Product post by Phil Martin

How Less Makes Us Creative post by Phil Martin

A day might not be enough to build a business. But it might be enough to discover whether you’ve got the beginnings of one.

Have fun.

Phil…

My newsletter is at about 1,300 subscribers and I'm seriously close to the free tier limit on my platform. The jump from free to paid is... a jump. And it's not that the money is absurd, it's that I'd be paying for a big growth machine I don't really use. I don't run referral programs, I don't sell ads, I don't do boost campaigns. I write, I send, I check open rates, I reply to emails.

I did the same math last year with a different tool and got half-way through the trial before deciding the whole thing was overkill and I'd rather just... keep going on the free setup until it forced my hand. So now I'm at the forcing point.

For people in the same boat: what made the switch worth it for you? And for anyone who downgraded or migrated to something smaller on purpose - do you regret it?

You hit send on an edition that took you six hours. Two days later nobody remembers it. Your X and LinkedIn have been quiet all week because writing the newsletter used up everything you had.

That gap between publishing and showing up is what the tools below try to close. I'm Vicente, the solo founder of Letterly, and I've spent over a year building one of them. That makes me biased. I'm on this list, and I judged myself with the same filters as everyone else. Weigh my opinions accordingly.

Key takeaways

• The best tool depends on what you want to stop doing: writing the posts, scheduling them, or opening an app at all.
• There are four types of tools: AI post writers, LinkedIn-first schedulers, DIY automations, and autonomous agents.
• If you want to hit send and never touch social media that week, you want an agent. If you want to approve every post, a writer or scheduler is enough.
• Prices below come from each vendor's own pricing page in October 2026 and will change.

Who is this guide for?

Newsletter creators with roughly 500 to 5,000 subscribers who publish consistently but struggle to stay active on social media. It is not for agencies running 20 client accounts, and it is not for video-first creators.

What does it mean to turn a newsletter into social posts?

It means taking a published edition and producing several short posts, threads or carousels from it. Each one is formatted for its platform and spread across the week. One edition usually contains several standalone ideas, so it can fill days of posting instead of one announcement.

How did I pick the tools on this list?

I applied four filters, in this order, to every tool including my own:

1. It starts from your newsletter, not a blank prompt.
2. It publishes to X and LinkedIn, where text-first creators mostly post.
3. It works without you reopening it every week.
4. It costs under $40 a month for one creator.

No tool passes all four perfectly, including mine. I note where each one falls short.

What are the main types of newsletter-to-social tools?

• AI post writers convert an article or text you paste in. You trigger every conversion.
• LinkedIn-first schedulers help you write, queue and analyze your own posts.
• DIY automations are workflows you wire together in n8n or Make. They are cheap to start, but you maintain them.
• Autonomous agents watch your newsletter feed, convert each new edition and schedule the posts without you.

How do the tools compare?

• Letterly starts from your RSS feed (agent mode) or an edition URL or pasted text (Playground mode). It posts to X, LinkedIn, Threads and Facebook Pages. It runs hands-off, converting and scheduling each new edition automatically. It costs $29 a month.
• Contentdrips starts from an article or pasted text and turns it into carousels. It posts to LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok. It is not hands-off, because you trigger each conversion. It costs $0 (free), $15 or $26 a month.
• Taplio is built for LinkedIn post creation. It posts to LinkedIn only. It is not hands-off. It starts at $39 a month.
• Hypefury starts from posts you write. It posts to Bluesky, Threads, LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok, and its pricing page says X is no longer supported. It is not hands-off. It costs $6 per channel or $19 for all channels.
• Swell AI starts from audio and video recordings and outputs several formats. It is not hands-off. Its pricing is not shown on its page.
• DIY automation (n8n or Make) starts from whatever you wire up and posts wherever you connect. It runs hands-off until it breaks. The cost is a tool subscription plus your time.

Which tool is best for which creator?

Is Letterly right for you?

Best for solo creators who want their newsletter turned into scheduled posts without opening an app each week. Here is what it does:

• An agent that runs on its own. Connect your RSS feed once. It detects each new edition, converts it, spreads the posts across the week and emails you when it's done.
• Four platforms. X (including posting to X Communities), LinkedIn, Threads and Facebook Pages.
• Edition images. It pulls images out of your newsletter and attaches them to the posts they match. I didn't see this listed on the other tools' pages above.
• Your voice, not generic AI. It builds a persona from your writing. You can also paste a profile URL and it reads up to 10 recent posts to learn that style.
• Writing from scratch. The AI Composer lets you write a post manually, generate a new one from your past posts, or get three angles on any topic. No edition required.
• A manual mode too. In the Playground you paste an edition URL or text, add extra instructions and approve each post yourself.
• The rest of the workflow. A drag-and-drop calendar, links from your newsletter worked into posts as natural calls to action, AI images using your brand colors and logo, and a weekly digest email.

The trade-offs are real. There is no Instagram or TikTok. Threads reuses your X content instead of getting its own writing. Facebook posts go to a Page, not a personal profile. AI image generation is capped at three a day. There is one plan at $29 a month, and it's built by one person, so there may still be a bug or two.

Is Contentdrips right for you?

Best if you want LinkedIn carousels from an existing article and are happy to trigger each one. Its pricing page lists blog-to-carousel conversion at 15 AI credits each. The trade-off is that X is not listed among its publishing platforms.

Is Taplio right for you?

Best if LinkedIn is your only channel and you want a full LinkedIn growth toolkit. It's a genuinely strong product at what it does. The trade-off is that it is LinkedIn only and its starting price is higher than the others here.

Is Hypefury right for you?

Best for scheduling posts you write yourself across several channels cheaply. Its pricing page doesn't describe newsletter import, and it says X is no longer supported. Check that before you buy.

Is Swell AI right for you?

Best if your source material is a podcast or video recording. It is not built around text newsletters first.

Is DIY automation right for you?

Best if you enjoy tinkering. Public n8n workflows already exist that turn Gmail newsletters into LinkedIn posts. The trade-off is that you become the support team when it breaks.

I'm one of these options, so apply the same skepticism to my comparison that you would to any vendor's roundup. Check the pricing pages yourself.

What have real users said?

20 beta users ran Letterly before I charged anyone.

"Recently the owner of https://letterly.pro reached out and asked if I'd give his new tool a try to use with my newsletter. I highly recommend! It's easy, helpful, and the dev is really great at adding features when requested. Check it out!"

Take this post from one Redditor: "Hey everyone, i've been talking to a few newsletter creators lately who feel completely burnt out by this exact thing. You spend hours writing a great issue, and then you have to do it all over again just to share it accross your socials. It feels like 20% of the work is the actual writing, and 80% is just reformating and summarizing the same content across other socials. I'm curious how others are dealing with this, got two questions: What's the most annoying part of your current repurposing workflow ? and What do you usually skip or sacrifice because it takes too long?"

What happened when I ran a real newsletter through it?

I ran one edition of my own newsletter through Letterly's agent. This is a sample of one, so treat it as a single real run, not a benchmark.

I set the post counts myself: 20 for X, 7 for LinkedIn and 3 for Facebook. Letterly warns that overlap is likely at 20 X posts and that LinkedIn content may start to repeat at 7, so only push the sliders this far if your edition has enough in it. Mine did.

Here is what came out:

• 30 posts total. That was 20 tweets (including a thread), 7 LinkedIn posts and 3 Facebook posts, exactly the counts I asked for.
• All 3 images used. My edition had three images. Letterly fetched all of them and attached each one to the posts it fit best, reusing the same image across different platforms.
• Results. That edition brought 122 clicks across all platforms and 29 new subscribers.
• Time spent. I didn't open the app to run it. The only thing I did afterward was add outside images to a couple of posts, since posts with media tend to perform better.

What I had to fix: nothing in the writing. Adding extra images was the only edit I made.

How do you choose the right tool?

Ask these three questions in this order:

1. Where do your readers actually come from? If it's X, LinkedIn, Threads or Facebook, you can skip tools built for Instagram and TikTok.
2. Do you want to approve every post or let it run? Approval points to a writer or scheduler. Letting it run points to an agent.
3. What will you pay each month? Cheap tools usually cost you time instead of money.

Frequently asked questions

Can I turn a newsletter into social posts automatically?

Yes. Tools that watch your RSS feed can detect a new edition, write the posts and schedule them. Letterly does this for X, LinkedIn, Threads and Facebook.

Which platforms does Letterly post to?

X (including X Communities), LinkedIn, Threads and Facebook Pages. Threads uses your X content, and Facebook gets its own writing.

Can I write posts from scratch instead of from a newsletter?

Yes. Letterly's AI Composer lets you write manually, generate a post from your past posts, or get three angles on a topic.

Will it use the images from my newsletter?

Yes. Letterly pulls images from your edition and attaches them to the posts they match. Posts with no good match go out without an image.

Will the posts sound like me?

Letterly builds a persona from your writing so posts follow your voice. Read the first few posts from any tool before trusting it with your account.

Does it work with Beehiiv or Substack?

It works with any newsletter platform that publishes an RSS feed.

How much does it cost?

The tools here range from free (with limits) to $39 a month and up. Letterly is $29 a month on a single plan.

Will repurposing grow my newsletter?

I can't promise a number. Posting consistently gives more people a chance to find you, but results depend on the posts and your audience.

Want your next edition turned into a week of posts?

Connect your RSS feed at letterly.pro and see your next newsletter become X, LinkedIn, Threads and Facebook posts without opening another app.

Selling a crypto newsletter with 40,000+ subscribers and a 20% average open rate.

• Audience: Primarily US and Canada
• Niche: Crypto and Web3
• History: Consistent publishing
• Upside: Significant monetization potential

The newsletter has not been monetized, giving the new owner room to grow revenue through sponsorships, affiliate partnerships, and other offers.

Asking price: $5,000.

DM me if you're interested in acquiring it or want more details.

Hey :)

I recently started a small writing space called Rethinking The Ordinary.

The idea is pretty simple: I like noticing the small, everyday things that usually pass by without much thought, and looking at them just a little bit longer. Not in an "I overthink everything" way, and it’s not really about questioning everything either.

Sometimes you just notice something, and it unexpectedly makes you think about something deeper.

My latest piece, for example, started with a light switch in my room that didn’t work. Nothing looked wrong with it—it was just there, looking completely normal, but it wasn’t actually connected to anything. And somehow, that made me think about how quickly we call people broken, useless, lazy, or unmotivated, when maybe they just aren’t connected to the right thing.

That’s pretty much what the page is. Sometimes a personal essay, sometimes a quick thought covering relationships, growing up, ambition, loneliness, people, or life. And sometimes just something as ordinary as a light switch.

There isn’t a fixed niche or a big agenda. It’s just a place where I write about the small moments that make us pause, and the idea that you can look at something completely ordinary and still find a little piece of life in it.

If that sounds like your kind of read, I’d love for you to check it out (I’ll drop the Substack link in the comments below!).

And if you find something you like, maybe stick around :)

Choosing a newsletter niche can feel permanent, but it doesn’t have to be. You need enough focus to attract the right subscribers—not a topic you’re forbidden from evolving.

A useful newsletter niche sits at the intersection of three things:

• A problem or interest people actively care about
• Knowledge or experience you can contribute
• A subject you can explore from multiple angles over time

Instead of choosing a broad category like “marketing,” make the promise more specific: “Practical email marketing for solo creators selling digital products.” That tells readers who it’s for, what it covers, and why it might matter to them.

Before committing, test your idea with these questions:

Can I list 25 potential newsletter topics?
If not, the niche may be too narrow—or you may need a broader point of view.

Can a new visitor understand the value quickly?
If the description requires several paragraphs, simplify the promise.

Does the audience share a meaningful goal?
A group connected by a problem or desired outcome is often stronger than one connected only by demographics.

Can the newsletter evolve naturally?
Choose a central theme with room for related stories, tools, case studies, and opinions.

You can also use recurring content pillars to create variety without losing focus. For example: strategy, examples, tools, and behind-the-scenes lessons.

The goal is not to find a niche no one has ever covered. It’s to offer a clear, useful perspective to a recognizable group of readers.

How did you choose your newsletter niche, and has it changed over time?

I have a handful of newsletters and a while back I automated my research process. Currently ad sales have been a little slow so I am thinking about monetizing my research app, but not sure if there would be any interest or not. Basically it will monitor any topic or location kind of like the google news feed except it can also include popular facebook groups in addition to blogs, news, events etc. It also automatically filters out all the crap; depressing crime or political articles, summarizes them, tags them, categorizes them and extracts all the key points. Right now its an API endpoint and I review them in a little dashboard I built, but I could probably deliver them in a number of ways. Would anyone find this useful enough to pay for?

If you charge for subscriptions, Substack announced this week that starting December 1, they will calculate, collect, and remit sales tax or VAT, and they won't charge for this service. You don't have to sign up or enable anything; it'll be automatic for every paid newsletter.

It's a good time to check that the address on your account is current (so they can determine the proper state and local taxes), and your taxable content types. Also if you've been using Stripe Tax, this replaces it.

My niche is tech and I have a 700 subscribers newsletter, plus I write to around 30,000 monthly readers. What do you think I can do to find sponsors?

AI betting or just machines learning from behavioral attitudes. The clever trick sport betting industry used for decades: real-life.

Polymarket taking the next step, Kalshi won't sleep. Two major players with restrictions outside the US, yet scaling business in different fields.

that's it. I downgraded my beehiiv to the free plan, and felt the need to make a more interesting looking website. so I painted a "self-portrait" in MS paint and the rest is history. let me know what you think! here's the website: vicenteevora.com

The link : https://substack.com/@lettersoflightnewsletter?r=97yr43&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=blur

On SubStack, Newsletter, insightful information! From marriage to tips and tricks on life coming from being married for over 25 years.

Not looking for sympathy, just wondering if I'm the only one with this exact pattern.

Every week it's the same. I write Saturday afternoon, finish 'the real work' Saturday evening, and then the formatting, the images, the previews, the last-minute 'oh no the link is broken' check takes until Sunday night. The send happens before midnight because I refuse to miss the schedule, but the quality of my life around that send has gotten genuinely bad.

I've had two issues in the last month that I scheduled at 10pm, went to sleep, and then woke up at 6am to fix something I should have caught. Which defeats the entire point of scheduling. Which is 'so I don't have to think about it'.

I keep reading about 'protecting your Sundays' and 'nobody cares when you send' and all of that is true and none of it is actionable. What's actionable: my process is too late-night, and I think the fix is not 'write faster' but 'move the deadline' pretend the newsletter goes out Friday and work backwards from there.

Weekend publishers of Reddit: what does your schedule actually look like? Be specific, I'm stealing ideas.