<p><b>Startup description</b></p><p>My project is a weekly AI newsletter focused on providing curated news for founders, engineers &amp; enthusiasts.</p><p><b>Key highlights:<b></b></b></p><p><b>Team</b></p><p>It's solo. I'm doing everything myself.</p><p><b>Tech Stack</b></p><p>Substack.</p><p><b>Marketing and growth</b></p><p>Reddit was my main channel for subscribers acquisition. In addition to being selected as featured posts in /r/artificial, the posts became popular many times in other AI related subreddits.</p><p><b>Revenue and profits</b></p><p><b></b>I don't have access to Stripe and PayPal in my country which limits monetization via ad networks as well as to most of the better affiliate programs.  Despite this major limitation, my newsletter generated $870+ in revenue, since October 2023, from direct ads (customers themselves reach out for ad placements).</p><p><b>Return on investment</b></p><p>Affiliate ads, participating in ad networks, reaching out to sponsors etc.</p><p><b>Startup assets<b></b></b></p><p><b>Summary</b></p><p>AI is continuing the explosive growth. Most of the people get overwhelmed by this, but want to stay updated. A weekly curated AI newsletter helps people and save time.</p><ul><li>Number of Subscribers: ~10K (9900+)</li><li>Open Rate: ~38%</li><li>More than 50% subscribers from US, UK, Canada and Germany</li><li>For several months, the weekly news from my newsletter got featured as a special pinned post on one of the largest subreddit on AI /r/artificial/</li><li>Domain Rating as per Ahref: 30</li><li>Email list with ~10k subscribers (9900+)</li><li>Domain Name</li></ul></br>✅ $659 in Annual Revenue✅ 9,900 subscribers✅ Business model: Sponsorship✅ Built with Substack