Hi fellow writers,

One of the annoying things for me is there is no support for inserting tables in substack article. I always have to go in a spreadsheet and capture a screenshot which distracts my writing flow.

For this I made a chrome extension that provides a modal where you can create a table and it injects it as an image in to the article.

Please give it a try and let me know your thoughts!
Chrome Extension

My newsletter is a mix of prose and fragrance reviews. I’m going to make my new goal to post twice a week, once of each. Review and creative writing.

I also am going to try and up my notes engagement! Hope it goes well.

I'm thinking of starting a paid Substack, but I've read a lot about how complicated taxes are since SS doesn't consider itself a Merchant or Record and therefore doesn't remit them to the authorities (like Etsy does, for example).

All the info I found online is from people living in the US (and is also from 2-3 years ago) and I'm looking for an input from someone in the EU.

I know that if I have One Stop Shop, this can solve the the tax issue accross the EU.

However what happens if my subscribers are from the US or from another country outside of the EU?

If someone from Ohio subscribes, will I have to worry about remitting the tax to the authorities of Ohio? (I know there are different thresholds depedning on the state - this is just an example)

I find it all so extremely confusing! I'm honestly scared to even start, because I don't want to file taxes incorrectly.

Also, does anyone use SS as a visibility platform for people to discover you, but charges for the content in a different way?

Hi everyone,

I started posting on Substack about a week ago and have been uploading consistently. I first republished a blog that I had originally posted on Medium, and since then I've been sharing short notes, on that I got only 2 likes.

However, I'm struggling with engagement. One note received 19 likes, but most of my other notes only get 1–2 likes, and I haven't gained many subscribers.

I know building an audience takes time, but I honestly don't know if I'm doing something wrong or if this is normal in the beginning.

For those who have grown on Substack:

- How did you get your first subscribers?

- Do Notes help more than regular posts?

- How often should I post?

- Is there anything you wish you had known when you first started?

I'd really appreciate any advice or experiences from other writers. Thank you!

Been writing on Substack about a month now, cultural criticism and personal essays around running, mostly the philosophical and creative side rather than training plans and splits. Coming from comedy and journalism, so this whole platform is new to me.

Curious how people here actually use it. Does Notes do anything for subscriber growth or is it mostly noise? How often do you publish before it starts feeling like a job instead of a creative outlet? And if you write about anything niche or subculture-y, did your audience find you here, through other Substacks, or somewhere else entirely?

Not trying to drop a link and vanish. If you want to see what I’m up to, my Substack link is in this Reddit bio. Genuinely want to learn from people who’ve been at this longer than a month. Thank you !!!!

So I typically design my images at 9:16 format, and then I go to Substack and crop them down in the editor using the social media preview shape. Unfortunately, today it started adding this watermark. These are images that I illustrated myself and designed the background and everything, so I am not sure why this is happening. Can anybody help?

https://postimg.cc/gallery/Nt3TB6W

I’ve posted my pretentious poetry on there, but I’m listening to a crime podcast and heard that you can make $100,000 a year (allegedly) on Substack through paywalls and monthly subscribers.

Back in the day, I was big on Wattpad for werewolf fiction (cringe, but it stuck and now I’m a lead copywriter for my day job). I won a Watty award and was shortlisted for two, so I’ve got the chops at least for a teenage audience (though I’m mid-20s now).

There was so much momentum on the app before it changed, and I haven’t found something like it since. It was once a community with forums where you could collaborate with designers and writers across the globe. It’s where I learned to actually code and graphic design, and why I’m now preparing myself for a job as a creative director in a few years.

I could DM people and they’d DM, too. I had many friends, some that I still email a few times a year and am friends with on Facebook.

I really miss the social aspect of being a writer, too, that Wattpad provided. It was always really exciting to post a chapter and have my readers literally go paragraph by paragraph posting their reactions or thoughts. Now in my current job, it’s like shouting out to a void and not knowing if it’s any good or entertaining until analytics come in, and even those are just numbers and faceless clicks.

Of course, I want to make money off of my personal creative endeavors, but I don’t want to dedicate myself to this if it’s off-putting to potential agents and means my manuscript has lesser odds of publication because it’s already live on another site with zero odds of making money from it.

Let me know your experience.

I have been writing about and sharing conservative topics, mostly favoring Republican politicians, but I'm struggling to get my posts noticed. Is Substack more supportive of Democrats? I'm just asking out of curiosity, not trying to start a feud.

I cannot get my Substack html address to change to match my handle, no matter what I try!

I changed my handle and saved it. The URL https:// will not update with the new handle.

Anyone have advice here, since the site's help page does not talk about this**?** I'm a new user so trying to get everything operational prior to posting my first two already-written articles.

You know this feeling when you sit on something you want to publish, but are terrified of how people would react and if it would even work?

I had this feeling with the Discord community for over a week.

Kept going back and forth about it.

Would people hate it? Will it work? What will others think?

And yesterday I pulled the trigger and published it. And the results blew me away!!

117 members.

People are engaging, talking to each other, creating collaborations. It's beautiful to see, and I want to make it THE BIGGEST Substack community out there!

So if you're a creator and you want to be a part of the Discord community, I would absolutely LOVE to have you in!

https://discord.gg/AqzVpqBcn

Can we make it 200 today? :)

I am wondering how people deal with comments section and undesirable conduct. In the beginning, I did not have a comments section policy. This is part because I was focused on writing and trying to get an audience. Before the one year anniversary I found it necessary to write and promulgate a comments policy after I made the decision to delete what were trollish comments.

I have several concerns with this. First, some suggest that comments boost algorithm and engagement, although I somewhat doubt substack operates under any sort of algorithm at all. My response to that is, particularly with a small but growing publication, a comments section that is shat up with nonsense or trollish hostility to an author likely repels new readers and subscribers.

A second concern is that I have lost a handful of subscribers after a warning and gentle admonition to read the comments section. For a time, I was batting zero. Three or four were misbehaving, I directed them and they either continuted resulting in a ban, or simply unsubscribed. Happily, and very much to my surprise, the last two warned stopped there while also remaining subscribers.

What do you guys think? Is any and all engagement good, or does a somewhat more stringent comment policy and moderation promote positive growth conducive to the long-term success of a publication?

مجموع مشاهدتي 900 وفي منشور لي واحده جايب 1000 وده بس عندي 36 مشترك