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ποΈ 15 February 2021
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0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? This is Cortland from NDHackers.com, and you're listening to the |
0:11.8 | NDHackers podcast. More people than ever are building cool stuff online and changing their |
0:16.6 | lives in the process. And on this show, I talked to these ND hackers to learn about the ideas, the opportunities, and the trends that they're taking advantage of so the rest of us can do the same. If you've been listening to the show and you want an easy way to give back, do me a favor, leave a quick review for us on Apple Podcasts. It helps other people find the show, and it makes me a happy podcaster. In today's episode, we're going to talk about how many hackers are making a living off the back of paid content. |
0:39.9 | Obviously, the big winner in 2020 when it comes to content was paid newsletters. |
0:44.1 | It seems like everybody's got one, and a lot of them are doing very well. |
0:47.6 | So check out episode number 161 with Sam Parr. |
0:50.5 | I talked to him about the hustle trends, a paid newsletter he started. |
0:53.6 | That's part of his newsletter |
0:54.2 | company that was recently acquired for something like $27 million. |
0:58.3 | Episode 164 was Scott Keyes of Scott's Cheap Flights, who's somehow making it through the pandemic |
1:03.2 | and the lower traveled with his paid newsletter. |
1:05.6 | And Drew Riley in episode 173, who started up a newsletter to help Andy hackers capitalize |
1:09.7 | on trends and is |
1:11.0 | doing pretty well for himself as well. And here with me to discuss this is Yaroslaw Bagri. He's part of the Indiehackers Podcast Network. Yari got your own podcast and paid community. It's called Newsletter Crew. Welcome to the show. Hey, Carl Lin, thank you for having me. Yeah, yeah, thanks for joining. So we're going to talk about how people are making a living by writing online. |
1:07.7 | But I think this is more than just about writing. |
1:09.8 | I think other indie hackers |
1:10.7 | are also sort of profiting from this trend where they're making apps and tools that cater to the newsletter ecosystem. So this is kind of why I think it's important to talk about. It's kind of why I keep bringing people on the show over and over again, because whenever you see people finding some new way to make money |
1:44.3 | to chart a new path, create a new career, it creates pretty much an entire ecosystem where you don't have to be the person writing a newsletter. You could be building a platform that they're going to write on. You could be building tools to help them write better. You could be putting out books and products to help them learn how to write better, or you can start your own newsletter. I wonder what your thoughts are on this. You talk to way more newsletter authors than I ever have. Do you think that this is just an opportunity for writers? Or do you think the real opportunity is for people creating tools and platforms and building software for these writers? Yeah, no, that's definitely good, you know, a good question. And, you know, I feel like every indie hacker should be paying attention to this trend. And I don't even want to call it a trend because I think it's here to stay. |
2:01.7 | But I mean, there's tons of people that are writing on this trend as well. Like, you know, Janelle from Newsletter OS, we got, I forget his name, Jacob Greenfield from Newsletter Spy. We got ConvertKit, which is also like an indie, you know, kind of homegrown indie hacker product. And then we got the big |
2:34.8 | kind of grill in the room, like substack, you know, ghost. But, you know, there's tons of other |
2:38.7 | examples as well, like, you know, actual indie hackers, you know, breaking into the space and, you know, making a decent living off of it. Tell me about some of these. What's a newsletter spy? Newsletter spy, yeah, so newsletter spy is, you know, it's actually an info product. |
2:34.0 | All it is is a landing page, an air table, and then basically it's behind a paywall. |
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