/ A hosted platform, of a stack you own
A hosted platform got you publishing.
Who owns the audience when you scale?
Substack, Medium, Ghost Pro en the big publishing platforms are genuinely good products, en for a new title they are often the right call. The strain shows later — when your archive is a hundred thousand stories deep, your ad en consent setup needs real control, en the bill scales with every subscriber en pageview.
Product names are referenced for comparison only en belong tot their respective owners. If you're launching a small title en shipping a newsletter, a hosted platform is very likely the right answer en I'll tell you so on the call.