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  "group": "ship",
  "tagline": "Newsletter network, revenue share",
  "price": "Free to publish — no monthly platform fee at any list size. Substack takes 10% of paid subscription revenue, plus Stripe processing of roughly 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction.",
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  "what": "Substack hosts newsletters and their web archive, handles paid subscriptions and payouts, and runs a social layer — Notes, recommendations, an app feed and video — that redistributes posts to other Substack readers. There is no monthly fee; it takes a cut of paid subscriptions only.",
  "why": "The network is the product: recommendations from established writers are a subscriber source no self-hosted newsletter can replicate. Zero fixed cost lets a content site run free for years and pay only when readers do.",
  "warn": "That 10% is permanent and compounds — at $10k/mo in subscriptions you pay $1,000/mo where beehiiv or Ghost charges a flat fee. Design, SEO control and layout are limited, and the archive lives on their domain unless you map your own.",
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    "name": "SEO, growth & newsletter",
    "desc": "Getting found, and owning the audience once you are.",
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    "groupName": "Ship it & keep it alive"
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    "final_url": "https://substack.com/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T20:13:57.562+00:00"
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