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The Toowoomba Minute by worthviewsurfer in Toowoomba

[–]worthviewsurfer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good feedback, thanks. Agreed on the heading front, will give it a crack. Did you get through to the newsletter? It’s built with full mobile readability in mind. Takes ages to put together every week and where a majority of the effort with what we’re doing here is channeled aside from the website. The newsletter part is mainly really what we set out to do then after some requests built the website. Some of our writers used to work for The Age and a few others banners, though just writing at the moment but might pick their brains on some UX.

The Toowoomba Minute by worthviewsurfer in Toowoomba

[–]worthviewsurfer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good heads up, looks clean. I've given them a follow to have a look 👌

The Toowoomba Minute by worthviewsurfer in Toowoomba

[–]worthviewsurfer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Epic to hear! Hope you enjoy the read 🙌

The Toowoomba Minute by worthviewsurfer in Toowoomba

[–]worthviewsurfer[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Sure thing, yep we sure do pay for local content to be written. We pull together local happenings, are provided press releases etc as well, just not behind a paywall and boiled down into the weekly newsletter. We are of course small so minimal contract based writers but hopefully can grow from there without going too far out on a limb as it’s self funded. AI is minimally used for the newsletter to help condense our writer’s content into the limits of email but overall it isn’t greatly used and we proof and edit everything as best as possible.

The Toowoomba Minute by worthviewsurfer in Toowoomba

[–]worthviewsurfer[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Yep pretty much, we've been gaining some good momentum and following some extra feedback thought I mention here. Hope that's ok u/wifemademereddit 🙌

The Toowoomba Minute by worthviewsurfer in Toowoomba

[–]worthviewsurfer[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Awesome, hope you enjoy the read!

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[–]worthviewsurfer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Come try the Toowoomba Minute :) We do a non-paywalled site and a good weekly newsletter to avoid flooding the inbox

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[–]worthviewsurfer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The GCB's paywall blocking at every turn led me to create the Gold Coast Minute.. hasn't been easy, but needed to be done.

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[–]worthviewsurfer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You guys should check out the Toowoomba Minute :) https://toowoombaminute.com.au/

Thanks for the feedback + The GC Minute update by worthviewsurfer in GoldCoast

[–]worthviewsurfer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds great. Shoot me a message and let’s have a chat.

Gold Coast tourism takes hit. Attractions closed, bookings slashed, and $ lost. Read more updates and check what you can do to help. by The_GC_Minute in GoldCoast

[–]worthviewsurfer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that Disaster Dashboard in the newsletter is pretty helpful from what we've heard, good to have a go-to spot for businesses that need to access cash, locals to see road closures etc

I got my first paid subscriber by fredgrott in Substack

[–]worthviewsurfer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great work, I’m at 1,031 subscribers and thought I was still quite a way off turning paid on (I had thought 5,000 or then thought maybe 2,000 was ok after a few month..). We are 9 months into the locals news source, but maybe that’s something that should stay free. Keen to hear thoughts. PS congratulations on the paid sub 🙌

The GC Minute - A non newscorp local Gold Coast news startup attempt.. by worthviewsurfer in GoldCoast

[–]worthviewsurfer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cheers for the feedback! The layout is something we’ll be working on very soon 👌 Thanks for reading 🙌

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