<story><title>I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months</title><url>https://shadesofgreaves.substack.com/p/how-i-grew-my-substack-from-439-to</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matt_s</author><text>&amp;gt; So, considering that you’re likely going to fail, at least pick something you’re going to enjoy failing at!&lt;p&gt;This is the golden nugget that got me subscribed. I love satire (and am pumped Jon Stewart is back on TDS) and this is a good perspective to trying out side projects.</text></comment>
<story><title>I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months</title><url>https://shadesofgreaves.substack.com/p/how-i-grew-my-substack-from-439-to</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryukoposting</author><text>Darn, I&amp;#x27;ve been doing it all wrong! Guess I need to migrate my entire blog to Substack so that I can have a concept of &amp;quot;subscribers&amp;quot; and the necessary analytics to give me a dopamine rush any time the number gets bigger.</text></comment>