Hacker Newsletter (http://hackernewsletter.com) makes a few thousand a month from sponsors. It could easily make more if I were more of a salesperson, but I'm happy with it as is. Just to be clear though, it took some time to get to that. I'm actually about to hit the seven year mark and issue #357. Speaking of... I'm working on tomorrow's issue as I type this!
We do that for tech on Charged podcast, and phone people in the industry for comment (recent guests include Keen.io, CEO of DigitalOcean etc). Try it out? https://char.gd/podcast
The podcast appears to be hosts discussing their life in tech along with some current tech topics instead of focusing on summaries of specific content -- very reminiscent of TechZingLive. John definitely has a lot of connections in the valley!
Me too. Weekly. Preferably, by someone with British accent. I noticed that British in the US talk slower and their vocabulary tends to be more succinct, while using less slang and less "mmm, eee, oooh, etc."
There is a cultural difference that makes British speakers way more appealing to me I guess.
I tried "this week in tech" but it was too much "headlines" talk. Also I totally dislike the style compared BBC podcasts for example. I can listen to BBC podcasts while I work without getting tired or distracted.
Yeah, Upstart.me looks like a great resource. These days I don't have a problem finding sponsors (they'll reach out to you at a certain point), but by sales I meant maximizing everything and doing more with it.
I guess it just depends on the person, but I don't equate "votes" to always mean the best. For HNL I look for for a mix of these along along with the ones that don't make the front-page for long. The biggest value is that I send all of those to people's inbox -- they seem to like that part the most.
As a subscriber on the list, "more value" (to me) is provided in a couple of ways:
- I seem to like the weekly selection; the editorial choices on which articles are likely to be of interest of the group.
- Kale includes older posts, sometimes from months back, sometimes more obscure or funny, that are still interesting to read now.
- I get the top stories in a weekly email that I can process weekly. If I feel I've kept myself reasonably up to date with current news, that means a quick scan. But after a couple of weeks of vacation, processing just three issues of Hacker Newsletter is sufficient to catch up.
Thanks! It wasn't my first idea, but after another side-project failed due to not having enough time to work on it between a full-time job and kiddos, I wanted to start something smaller. I basically came up with the idea one weekend as I thought it would be a great way to keep up with the great reads on HN and more importantly, something that I could "finish" in the same weekend. Emailed some friends and went from there.
