How would you setup a blog with paid membership? And it needs to also deliver every post via email, because most people have no idea what an RSS reader is.
Self-hosting anything with a billing mechanism, even using something like Stripe, is decidedly non-trivial for most people.
Substack is by far the easiest option for that I've seen.
Self-hosting anything with a billing mechanism, even using something like Stripe, is decidedly non-trivial for most people.
Substack is by far the easiest option for that I've seen.