Every creator thinks about a subscription (paid) vs. free product at some point.

Here's how we made the decision at Filter Coffee 👇👇 1) Firstly, paywalls suck.
 
Subscriptions where common people have to pay are really annoying. Taking out your credit card, pay, follow up, cancel... it's a mess.

Ruins the experience. Turns people off from trying things out. That would restrict our message.

Going from 0 to 1,000 users is excruciatingly hard, especially for first time builders 💪

Here's how I did it starting from scratch with Filter Coffee, and you can too... 1/

For the first week or so, I just wrote the email to myself. This helped me understand the process, polish writing, and figure out a basic layout.

It is easy to give up in these early days. This helped ensure I'll stick with the project.

Writing a newsletter EVERYDAY is intellectually rewarding.

But it's obviously exhausting, and you need a process to make work manageable. Here's how we do it everyday 👇 1/ 11:00 AM

We kick off by reading articles for the day.

Check headlines for important stuff over a few trusted free sources. By now we have a good hang of the leading sources for Indian news.