Keep the whole subscription
A ten percent platform fee on a paid newsletter is a rent you pay forever on a relationship you built. Running the software yourself removes the fee and the intermediary at the same time.
The maths changes immediately
Readers pay into your Stripe account and you keep everything Stripe does not charge you for. On a list of any real size that difference is the cost of running the thing several times over.
Move without asking permission
Import brings posts, free subscribers and active paid plans across together, keeping renewal dates intact so nobody is asked to enter a card again.
Paywall the pieces worth paying for
Free posts do the reaching, paid posts do the earning, and each one is a per-post decision rather than a plan you commit to up front.
More use cases
- Writers Publish essays to your own site, email them to your list, and promote each one across every network in one pass.
- Founders Post launches, changelogs and build notes to every network without doing it six times.
- Developer advocates Developers are split across Bluesky, X and Mastodon. Reach all of them without choosing a favourite.