Ask HN: Market for a blogging/newsletter product?
Hey HN,<p>I&#x27;ve spent years working on my personal blogging site. The blog is optimized for SEO and has automated Twitter&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;email integrations so that you can just worry about writing those articles.<p>Today it also includes a newsletter builder that&#x27;s focused around sharing links to interesting stuff I find about a particular topic. The newsletter is then shared on a weekly basis.<p>The system houses an invoicing feature as well, where you can quickly hash out an invoice for services rendered that need to get paid.<p>These days the site generates a decent chunk of revenue, mostly from newsletter sponsorships, but also from on-site advertisement.<p>I&#x27;m thinking of turning it into a product. It would work by hosting a simple page somewhere like superhost.com and then people can request instances of what used to be my personal blogging site. They then get lucas.superhost.com, or whatever subdomain they want.<p>I could charge on a few different vectors, when they want a custom domain, or e.g a fixed monthly fee, or subscriber segments, a mix of the former, etc. I&#x27;m fundamentally interested to learn whether this is a product that could do well, or if you think it&#x27;s too broad of a focus. I think today most products are hyperfocused and a &quot;one-stop shop&quot; for everything a freelancer or small company needs to market themselves can be valuable to non-technical and lazy people alike.<p>Would love your insight