Why you should not start a Substack blog

There was a time when medium was a popular favorite on internet. It came as a good alternate to Wordpress and Blogger for online writing.

Then it fell into bloat and mess like most products. It added weird paywalls on readers and tried their best to fail it. ...and they succeeded.

It failed because medium was funded by investors. It had no business model in start and later they tried to make money in weird ways. When they monetized they betrayed their readers, and writers but tried to please investors. That is when things go south.

Substack is also funded by investors. It does have a better business model from start but we don't know if it can last. Substack will put investors above customers any day because the company owes to investors instead of customers.

Always pick a product/platform funded by customers. Those are the business that are playing the long game and can't betray customers. Substack like platforms can betray customers but won't betray investors.

Customer funded platforms like ghost and lykhari are reliable. They are built to last and the customer is the king because customer is the investor as well.

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