I’ve noticed a major gap with the Substack platform: there isn’t an easy way to discover what other successful writers are doing. Substack itself doesn’t provide a clear overview or data about the best practices, trends, or even the most successful publications in various niches.
To fill this gap, I decided to try to scrape all of Substack. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been crawling the web to build a directory of every Substack publication I could find. The result is the Sidestack Directory — a new site designed to help you discover, analyze, and learn from the top Substacks in each category.
To fill this gap, I decided to try to scrape all of Substack. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been crawling the web to build a directory of every Substack publication I could find. The result is the Sidestack Directory — a new site designed to help you discover, analyze, and learn from the top Substacks in each category.