The conclusion of my stream of consciousness in #1096292816969281556 : I'm probably going to rework yakread to give you a default algorithmic/discovery feed right away instead of trying to push people to add their own subscriptions immediately. That will vastly compress the onboarding funnel and will hopefully make marketing/growing yakread much more feasible. biggest changes I have in mind: 1. I'll probably get rid of the "curated"/"recent"/"discover" tabs--I think better just have the one algorithmic feed for simplicity. The daily digest will still have the "recent" section. That matches how I use yakread anyway. probably will keep it how it is for current users, at least for a while. that's actually how the feed was before. 2. I'll make the app usable without logging in. instead of seeing a landing page, you'll immediately get a feed of articles. If you try to subscribe to something then you'll get prompted to create an account. and on the backend, a bunch of algorithm work (especially on discover recommendations). Other than that stuff, I think the app will stay pretty much the same as it is now. Subscribing to newsletters / feeds won't be pushed during onboarding like it is now, but the subscriptions page will still be there and stuff. I may or may not actually focus on HN. probably will try out paid newsletter ads some more and see if they look feasible this time around. if not then I'll focus on HN and make the discover recommendations pull from HN or something. monetization can probably stay the same--leave it as pay-per-click ads.

One channel is to add your site to https://alternativeto.net I added mine and I see some referrers in server logs from there: https://alternativeto.net/software/linklonk/

oh that's interesting! I didn't even realize you could submit stuff there