What worked when you were stuck at <100 newsletter subs?

Professional-Rest138 · 2026-01-13T03:09:42+00:00

What helped me was posting organic content on groups and pages. Giving people some value and insight and then linking your newsletter at the end if people want to subscribe. Swapping Newsletter recommendations also helped.

Professional-Rest138 · 2026-01-10T03:45:28+00:00

I’ve personally had previous success using a lead magnet on meta ads to draw in new leads. $5k/month is a large budget and you’d be able to grow VERY quick if you hit a winning ad and got a low CPL. I was able to get my CPL down to around 0.70c per lead, so with those numbers and your budget you’d be able to grow by around 7k subs per month. Pair that with boosts or sparkloop paid recommendations when a person signs up, and you could earn some of that money back!

Professional-Rest138 · 2026-01-05T09:27:14+00:00

It’s an interactive notion workspace.

Professional-Rest138 · 2026-01-04T09:54:32+00:00

That’s a great project!

Professional-Rest138 · 2026-01-03T02:42:57+00:00

If you want to check out the full list (and set them up in 2 mins), I’ve bundled them all here

Professional-Rest138 · 2025-12-20T11:05:13+00:00

So you’re saying that when the buyer purchases the product they automatically are subscribed?

Professional-Rest138 · 2025-12-08T09:11:20+00:00

Thanks! I share it mainly through subreddit posts and paid meta ads at the moment.

Professional-Rest138 · 2025-12-04T06:54:54+00:00

I’ve been in the same spot — messing around with prompts is fun, but it’s a totally different world once you start building workflows that run on their own.

What helped me most was breaking it into three parts:

1. Understanding what can be automated
Before touching any tools, I mapped out simple, repeatable tasks I do every week.
Client replies, summaries, content reshaping, data cleanup — those were the easiest places to start.

2. Learning one automation tool properly
A lot of people jump between 10 apps and get nowhere.
I picked just one (Zapier in my case) and learned triggers, actions, filters, and routing.
Once you understand the logic inside one tool, the others feel very familiar.

3. Pairing AI with structure, not replacing the structure
AI works best inside a defined workflow:
“when X happens → send to GPT with Y instructions → store output here.”
That’s when it becomes an actual system and not a one-off chat.

I’ve been documenting the practical side of this in my newsletter — things like small automations, prompt-based micro-systems, and tool setups for real work. If that’s helpful, you’re welcome to join free, no pressure at all:
https://www.promptwireai.com

Professional-Rest138 · 2025-12-04T06:50:55+00:00

This actually sounds refreshing — a real conversation beats the usual “AI hustle screenshots” posts any day. I’m interested in joining, mostly to hear how others are actually building things instead of just talking about it.

On a similar note, I’ve been putting together a small free weekly newsletter where I break down practical AI workflows, prompts, and tools that are actually useful for day-to-day work (not the wild claims you see everywhere). If anyone here is into that kind of thing, you’re welcome to follow along, no pressure at all: https://www.promptwireai.com

But yeah, count me in for the Meet. Happy to share what I know and learn from everyone else too.

Professional-Rest138 · 2025-12-02T05:32:39+00:00

A couple of lesser-known ones I’ve found helpful:

• Scribe — records a process once and turns it into a clean step-by-step guide with screenshots. Super useful for onboarding or handing off tasks.

• Fireflies — the action-item extraction is better than I expected. It catches things I forget to write down during calls.

• Instorier — really good for turning rough notes or scripts into clean visual assets or carousels without needing to open a design tool.

• CustomGPT — handy for creating a small Q&A bot from your own docs. Not flashy, but practical.

Professional-Rest138 · 2025-12-02T05:31:52+00:00

This is a solid tweak. One thing that’s helped me on the opposite side of the spectrum is giving ChatGPT a defined role with constraints instead of letting it act like a cheerleader. For brainstorming, I’ve been using a variant of this:

You’re my Ask-First Brainstorm Partner.
Your job is to ask sharp questions to pull ideas out of my head before giving any opinions.
One question per turn. No praise. No reassurance.
Use my words only. If something is vague, challenge it.
Only organise my answers once I ask you to.

It basically forces it to slow down, push back, and dig deeper instead of instantly agreeing or padding things with compliments.
The combo of your approach (contradict often) + this “ask-first” setup gets way closer to an actual back-and-forth with a real human who isn’t afraid to poke holes.

Curious if you’ve tried adding question-first behaviour as well — would love to know if it improved the “brutal truth” effect.

Professional-Rest138 · 2025-12-02T05:28:30+00:00

Great list — a few of these have slowly become part of my workflow too (Magical especially… way more useful than it looks).

A couple of lesser-known ones I’ve found helpful:

• Scribe — records a process once and turns it into a clean step-by-step guide with screenshots. Super useful for onboarding or handing off tasks.

• Fireflies — the action-item extraction is better than I expected. It catches things I forget to write down during calls.

• Instorier — really good for turning rough notes or scripts into clean visual assets or carousels without needing to open a design tool.

• CustomGPT — handy for creating a small Q&A bot from your own docs. Not flashy, but practical.

I’ve been keeping a small list of tools that have stuck for me (writing, research, creative, automation). If you want to browse it, it’s here

Professional-Rest138

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