Short answer: Until you're sending ~100k emails/day, your tech stack doesn't really matter. Pick what looks easiest / most affordable and focus on publishing a kick-ASS newsletter.
MailChimp is most popular at that stage.
3) "How do I scale my audience?"
Short answer: Focus on growing trust, rather than growing your audience.
"I originally wasn't going to go paid at all, but I kept hearing from people saying that what I was offering was too valuable."
So, around 950 subscribers he "flipped the switch," charging $200/yr and offering a 50% discount for early sign ups.
On Pricing:
"I was gonna charge $100... Because everyone was charging $100/yr...
[But] if someone takes 1 idea from me and applies it to their business that's worth a lot more than $100. So literally, I think the day before I launched, I changed the 1 to a 2, and that was it."
@theSamParr and @TheHustle got access to #GPT3 from @OpenAI. I fed it the first few lines of Moby Dick, then let it rip. It wrote some beautiful prose about the freedom of life at sea, then went on an insane tangent about how whales are like Holland cheeses. Thread below.
First, a few lines of the intro written by the (human) author, Herman Melville, which I input into the system:
"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago...(1/5)
...never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation...(2/5)