Substack Is Dominating Newsletter Creation (But These 3 Features Could Make It Unstoppable)

And Substack knows every bit of it

I've run a newsletter on the Substack email newsletter platform for nearly 2 years now. It grew from zero to over 1,200 subscribers, largely thanks to Substack's powerful content discovery and recommendation engine.

"Substack's reader growth mechanism is unprecedented — it helps get your written works in front of interested eyeballs like nowhere else."

However, even the king of email newsletter platforms has room for improvement.

While Substack's sleek, minimalist writing-focused interface has won over many creators, it still lacks several critical features that would secure the #1 spot for any email marketing endeavor in 2024 and beyond.

With a few strategic additions, Substack could leapfrog stiff competition from marketing automation juggernauts like ConvertKit and Beehiiv through sheer simplicity, its free unlimited plan, and focus on writers.

#1 Auto pilot

As of now, composing and sending/scheduling email newsletters on Substack is fairly rudimentary — you write content and publish, or…