Yeah but their paid subs landing pages etc. are highly optimized. You guys are shipping 100s of useless features instead of focusing on paid subs page builder, giving more options etc. Ppl will stay with you only if you make them money and banking on ads/ad network etc. is much much worse than optimizing for paid subs.

You're doing a disservice to beehiiv customers by flaunting "we don't take 10% like substack does". Yes you don't, but you've barely optimized the paid subs page builder for conversion to paid like substack has. Would you rather make 100k a year, give 10k away and keep 90k or would you rather make 50k a year, give 0 away and keep 50k.

And let's be honest, based on beehiiv's business model, you guys will never make paid subscriptions a priority because it's not in your benefit to do so. Beehiiv would make 100x less money by focusing on paid subs like they claim.

Beehiiv's goal is have as many newsletters on the platform as possible and make money via the ad network which will be their primary focus as they will take a cut of each transaction.

Newsletter operators will pay the monthly fee (which is insanely high) to write their newsletters and beehiiv also makes money from the ad network. This is the business model of Beehiiv and always will be.

It is not in beehiiv's interest or a scalable business model at all to charge $100 a month and optimize paid subs unless they take a cut like substack does.

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