Comment by rorygibson

Substack is cool - but it's kinda expensive.

I wrote a short blog a few months ago about how to get most of the benefits it offers with way less cost (and without being tied to a single platform) - plugging together Mailchimp and Trolley with a static website and a l'il bit of Zapier.

https://trolley.link/2019/03/03/paid-email-newsletter.html

(Disclosure: https://trolley.link , which I've used for the payment elements in this example, is my product)