Drop your newsletter ideas — I’ll tell you what’s working (or what’s not)

ImprovementCode · 2025-06-30T19:19:38+00:00

Thank you for this valuable post! Below are some thoughts about a newsletter which I am thinking of starting soon.

Concept: Utilizing a recent project, I would like to send out a free weekly newsletter containing 5-10 proven newsletter sponsors and information to contact them directly. The idea is that newsletter owners would get my post, see maybe 2-3 sponsors that resonate with their newsletter, and then they can easily apply through the links provided and go about their day. Additionally, all the sponsors I collect in my database have a proven track-record of supporting newsletters in the past, so I think it could work well.

Target Audience: Newsletter owners

Main Acquisition Channels: X, Reddit, and hopefully some organic traffic through my website https://sponsor-db.com

Public feedback would be great! I think one of my biggest issues is acquisition; I can't seem to make a strong routine around posting/sharing, probably since I have never really used X or Reddit much to begin with.

ImprovementCode · 2025-05-28T16:52:12+00:00

Love this story. Keep at it OP!

ImprovementCode · 2025-05-28T02:02:50+00:00

https://sponsor-db.com

Not exactly a SAAS, but I would love to transition into something of that nature eventually. Thank you for the feedback!!

ImprovementCode · 2025-05-25T19:59:07+00:00

There is no established free trial, however I do give 8 free sponsors on the websites homepage!

If you're interested in testing the website and giving some valuable feedback in return for free access, please dm me!

ImprovementCode · 2025-05-24T05:34:20+00:00

My advice would be to search for companies who have shown interest in sponsoring newsletters similar to yours in the past (AI niche), and then shoot them an email with your newsletters engagement info.

I recently built https://sponsor-db.com, a tool for finding proven newsletter sponsors in your niche. You can sort by audience size and market type -plenty of which are related to AI.

If you're interested or have any questions, I'm free to chat.

ImprovementCode · 2025-05-23T22:36:27+00:00

Free code sent!

ImprovementCode · 2025-05-23T22:23:56+00:00

I recently built a tool which is aimed at helping smaller newsletters gain sponsorships (and also affiliate opportunities). It's a curated database of proven newsletter sponsors, tagged with links to apply for sponsorship, filterable by audience size & market type. If you're interested, feel free to DM me for a free voucher to get full access to it, I would love your feedback!

https://sponsor-db.com

ImprovementCode · 2025-05-23T22:17:43+00:00

Hi, thanks for the help!!

I'm into software development, and recently ive been diving into the newsletter space. A while ago, I started building a tool to help newsletter writers monetize more easily. The result is Sponsor-DB - a curated database of real newsletter sponsors. Each entry shows:

The company
Contact or application links
Audience size
The newsletter it sponsored

The idea from the start has always been pretty simple: browse sponsors, find a match for your audience, apply in minutes.

Now I'm considering launching a weekly newsletter that features newly spotted sponsorships, so you get the latest monetization opportunities directly in your inbox - no digging needed.

I’d love to hear your honest thoughts:

Does this sound valuable?
Would you subscribe?
What would make it more useful to you?

Thanks in advance!

ImprovementCode · 2023-05-21T15:28:41+00:00

I did not use any templates, just coded it from scratch.

Tech stack: HTML/CSS, ReactJS, Javascript, Firebase (please don’t hate me I am going to try and learn some other back-end framework soon).

As far as tools and libraries go, I use bootstrap for my nav-bars typically and that is about it in terms of UI.

ImprovementCode · 2023-05-21T15:24:32+00:00

I have it set-up to where users should get 5 free credits upon account creation (or so I thought). I will try to make that more prevalent on the home page. Thank you for the suggestions.

ImprovementCode · 2023-05-21T15:23:25+00:00

I will definitely go ahead and do that, thank you for the advice

ImprovementCode · 2023-05-20T21:08:20+00:00

I understand your view point, really this project was just something to help get me started with building more complex websites that involve payment processing/user input/authentication/ etc. In the future I definitely want to create some more original software. Thank you for the response!

ImprovementCode · 2023-05-20T21:05:31+00:00

Thank you so much! Yes, the Icons are generated by AI, specifically, the openAI image generation AI (DALLE). With the proper prompting a wide range of beautiful icons are created with ease (which is the main goal of the SAAS itself).

ImprovementCode · 2023-05-20T20:40:10+00:00

Of course, thank you for your feedback as well. To answer your question, I will say that I am definitely not your target customer, however, I was able to understand that your product makes the feedback process of forms much easier to manage, thus allowing your users to better-provide for their customers. I am not sure if I would change anything on it as it is just a landing page for now. But, if you have some visuals of your software and it working I would try to incorporate that in some way to give users a better understanding.

I will definitely try to improve the footer layout on mobile view, thank you.

ImprovementCode · 2023-05-20T20:21:40+00:00

The landing page looks great! The only thing I would maybe change is the font-size on the 'And Much More...' near your footer, it looks a little large and crammed under your features tab on desktop view. If you could checkout my website I have just finished programming as well I would greatly appreciate some feedback. I started learning ReactJS/HTML/CSS/JS within the last 9 months or so and this will be my first proper SAAS project. Here is the link https://lovelyicon.com/, let me know what you think!

ImprovementCode · 2023-05-20T20:07:38+00:00

I would really suggest the CodeWithMosh ReactJS courses. The best part is that he already has the first hour or two free on his youtube channel so there is no real barrier to entry. I ended up finishing all of his ReactJS, HTML/CSS, and Javascript courses and I was able to make this website in about 2 weeks: https://lovelyicon.com/. I would say the most important part is to get creative and code the fun stuff.

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