👀 @oliverdarcy.bsky.social is on an absolute tear right now...

• went independent and launched Status 6 months ago
• has thousands of paying subscribers
• got a killer WSJ feature

and he just launched a beautiful new website and newsletter with @beehiiv.com's new toys...

putting some final touches on the all new @beehiiv.com website builder 🏗️

✅ newsletters
✅ websites
✅ growth tools
✅ monetization

there's never been a better time to create content

the future of media 🤝 the @beehiiv.com Media Collective

the roster is stacked with only a few spots remaining...

🩺 health insurance
💼 legal coverage
👑 VIP support
📈 growth budget
📸 Getty Images
📊 strategy sessions
🎟️ concierge onboarding
💻 additional software

it turns out I’ve significantly underestimated what's possible with the new website builder on @beehiiv.com

💾 new BDE website dropping soon
🎨 new beehiiv website builder dropping soon

How I Raised $50M Each round has a totally different story to tell.

I've raised nearly $50M for @beehiiv.com

in today's newsletter I shared the story behind each round and the key takeaways I wish I knew back then 👇

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2025 revenue goal for @beehiiv.com is $30M 🎯

will circle back on this in 12 months

Careers at beehiiv We're empowering creators to create, monetize, and grow by building the most powerful and robust newsletter platform, built by newsletter people. And we're only just getting started 🚀beehiiv is commit...

new year, new job?

@beehiiv.com is hiring for engineering, data, and customer success

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each month I passively earn $1,000+ and grow by 3,000+ subscribers

Careers at beehiiv We're empowering creators to create, monetize, and grow by building the most powerful and robust newsletter platform, built by newsletter people. And we're only just getting started 🚀beehiiv is commit...

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🌎 fully remote
💰 competitive salary
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🧘🏿‍♀️ monthly wellness day
📚 unlimited book budget
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I began 2024 sending my first ever newsletter to just a few hundred people

ending 2024 by sending my 52nd consecutive newsletter to nearly 75K people

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🧹 More on the boozeletter’s move On Tuesday, I migrated Fingers from Substack to Beehiiv, with an engineer from the latter platform kindly holding my hand throughout the ~90min process. The move included most of Fingers’ four-year publishing archive and most of its ~7,000 subscribers. As a blanket statement, if you have any problems—with your subscription, receiving the newsletter, logging into the website, figuring out why something is laid out weirdly when it never used to be, etc.—don’t hesitate to email me: dave@dinfontay.com. Some notes on the move: What this means for you: Hopefully nothing! Because Substack is a layer that sits atop of my payment-processing software (Stripe), all paid subscriptions should have transferred over as-is. Free and paid subscribers can log into Fingers on the web by clicking the link in the upper-righthand corner and enter the email at which you receive the boozeletter. More info on that process here. What this means for me: Hopefully something! I’m looking forward to growing Fingers on the Beehiiv platform, which has more customization options and some other tools Substack was lacking. From an operational standpoint, Beehiiv is a good deal cheaper than Substack, too, so I’ll be able to capture more margin: the former will set me back around $1,000 annually, compared to around $4,000 for the latter. That’s significant savings for a small, independent, one-man-band like your fearless Fingers editor.

Why I migrated “most,” not all, of Fingers’ archives: Like any transfer between content management systems, there was some breakage between Substack and Beehiiv. Most of this was cosmetic stuff, image galleries and so forth. The biggest genuine loss is the comments sections, which are locked into Substack’s platform. It was a tough call to leave those behind, but I believe it’s the right one for Fingers’ future. That said, thank you to everybody who made the comments sections so vibrant on the old platform; hope you’ll do likewise here! Why I migrated “most,” not all, of Fingers’ subscribers: We ported over all of the roughly 600 paid subscribers to the new platform, for the obvious reason that they fund my work and I would very much like to keep working. Pretty simple. Less simple was figuring out which of the ~6,500 free sign-ups were actually real, and which were defunct addresses, spambots, etc. Ultimately, we identified more than 2,000 addresses that had a) never paid Fingers a cent; b) landed on Fingers’ list via Substack’s recommendation engine; and c) hadn’t opened an email in the last six months. This more or less confirmed the suspicions I wrote about back in June about the quality of sign-ups Substack was sending my way. No wonder my open rates had been tanking.

Fingers isn’t a newsletter about newsletters (god forbid), so I’ll leave the operational review at that. Other publishers, feel free to reach out if you’re contemplating a similar move and want more details. On a more personal note, it’s very scary to move platforms when your livelihood depends on it. Thanks to all the paying Friends of Fingers and Fingers Founding Members who have supported this project, especially this year. For the rest of you, consider upgrading to support my reporting in 2025, here’s a discount: 25% off the first year Make sure you toggle to “annual” to take advantage of the deal. Hope to see you on the other side of the paywall.

For the curious (other publishers, readers, whomstever) I wrote up some quick bullet points about Fingers' Substack -> @beehiiv.com move.

New subscribers can score that 25%-off annual discount here: www.fingers.email/upgrade?offe...

and we're gonna hustle so damn hard to make you're a success over here 💪

today substack admitted to opening a backdoor and building extra capabilities for JUST their top user (and eventually only the top 1%)

@beehiiv.com is building powerful capabilities to empower ALL users equally

new website building coming soon 🤫

NEW: post library on beehiiv

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with gift subscriptions, your readers (or actually anyone) can purchase a subscription to your paid newsletter and send it to all their favorite people!

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Death by a thousand substacks If you’re not a breadwinner, you’re the yeast.

"If you’re not a breadwinner on Substack, you’re the yeast .. responsible for driving app downloads, granting access to their social graph, and funneling their readers towards the platform’s top earners."

@tylerdenk.bsky.social (channeling @anildash.com too)

mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/death-by-t...

your 2024 beehiiv rewind is here!

see your aggregated stats, top content, growth, and more✨

Echoes a lot of my thoughts on the direction Substack has been going in.

Newsletters are great because you own your audience and you're not tied to any platform. I'm weary of any one trying to change that.

Death by a thousand substacks If you’re not a breadwinner, you’re the yeast.

substack continues to pivot its strategy at the expense of its publishers

it's dark patterns for darker incentives all the way down

Careers at beehiiv We're empowering creators to create, monetize, and grow by building the most powerful and robust newsletter platform, built by newsletter people. And we're only just getting started 🚀beehiiv is commit...

we are now hiring @beehiiv.com for engineering, data, customer success, and customer support

🌎 fully remote
💰 competitive salary
📈 401(k) match
🩺 insurance
🧘🏿‍♀️ monthly wellness day
📚 unlimited book budget
🏃🏽‍♀️ tons of autonomy

careers.beehiiv.com

yo I heard he's the dopest

welcome aboard.. let me know if you need help with anything 🐝

📢 Some exciting news: after a very busy year of kicking the can down the road, I'm pleased to announce Fingers' award-winning independent journalism about drinking in America will soon be migrating to @beehiiv.com.

who are the best people to follow here 🦋