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Newsletter writer, $4k MRR
Content / media · Under $5k MRR · 18 h/wk
- Monthly
- $78/mo
- Annual
- $936/yr
- Tools
- 6
Three years writing a paid newsletter on infrastructure. 12k subscribers, 6 percent paid conversion. Beehiiv replaced Substack last year because the 10 percent take started to bite. Ghost was the alternative; I went with Beehiiv for the network effects in the discovery feed.
The stack
- BeehiivEmail
Newsletter platform built by ex-Morning Brew folks. Better publishing UX than ConvertKit, more monetisation than Substack, and a generous free tier.
“Growth tier”
$49/moTry it→ - NotionProductivity
A flexible workspace that doubles as a CRM, content planner, and lightweight project tracker, all from one tool.
$0/moTry it→ - TallyForms
Forms that should have always existed. Free, beautiful, embeds anywhere, and integrates with the rest of your stack without making you upgrade twice.
“Reader surveys”
$0/moTry it→ - PlausibleAnalytics
Privacy-first analytics that fits in a single line of HTML. No cookies, no consent banner, no GA-shaped sprawl. The dashboard shows what matters for a content-led business.
$9/moTry it→ - StripePayments
The default payments stack for solopreneurs: invoices, subscriptions, one-off charges, all of it. If you take money on the internet, you probably end up here.
$0/moTry it→ - ClaudeAI Tools
Anthropic's AI assistant. Strong on long-context reasoning, careful writing, and code review. The thoughtful sibling to ChatGPT.
“Editing partner, not writer”
$20/moTry it→
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