The comparison to Facebook's playbook is dead on. Start simple, get adoption, then bloat the product until it's unrecognizable. What bugs me most is that newsletters already had product-market fit, they solved a real problem. Adding video,podcasts, reels feels like solving for investor desires rather than user needs, which historically never ends well.
I think that adding video and podcast feeds is perfectly fine. A lot of writers also branch out into audio and video. But trying to push them a "must-use feature to get noticed" and a social media feed on top of all of that... Yeah, that reeks of VC-driven development.
I’m gonna regret the day this platform turns into a commercialized media blitz biased platform, I hope it doesn’t, I enjoy the content here where I find likeminded people and the content creators have control over who is on their Substack. For example if I have a certain opinion on a political issue that same Substack I subscribed too also share the same views and most of the time there is not a subscriber that is a bot that I am not aware of if they are? But at least I feel welcomed and not stressed out by some bot or another person depriving the comment section with spit!! I hope Substack does not look anything like Facebook or Tik tok or X
The comparison to Facebook's playbook is dead on. Start simple, get adoption, then bloat the product until it's unrecognizable. What bugs me most is that newsletters already had product-market fit, they solved a real problem. Adding video,podcasts, reels feels like solving for investor desires rather than user needs, which historically never ends well.
I think that adding video and podcast feeds is perfectly fine. A lot of writers also branch out into audio and video. But trying to push them a "must-use feature to get noticed" and a social media feed on top of all of that... Yeah, that reeks of VC-driven development.
I’m gonna regret the day this platform turns into a commercialized media blitz biased platform, I hope it doesn’t, I enjoy the content here where I find likeminded people and the content creators have control over who is on their Substack. For example if I have a certain opinion on a political issue that same Substack I subscribed too also share the same views and most of the time there is not a subscriber that is a bot that I am not aware of if they are? But at least I feel welcomed and not stressed out by some bot or another person depriving the comment section with spit!! I hope Substack does not look anything like Facebook or Tik tok or X