today was the biggest day in @beehiiv history we launched Community — joining your newsletter, podcast, website, products, ads, and subscriptions no algorithms no platform fees no gatekeepers just one platform to power your entire content business everything we announced 🧵

absolutely monster product update today @beehiiv.. > group subscriptions 🎉 > new paid subscription dashboards > Spotify Open Access (for podcasts) > more MCP capabilities > AI crawl control oh, and 0% fees (unlike most of the other platforms)

read access: "who are my highest intent subscribers?" write access: "great, now build an automation to promote my upcoming event" introducing the feature you asked for most: write access now available w/ the beehiiv MCP ✍️

introducing the @beehiiv MCP v2 🤖 now with access to: > automations > segments > podcasts > products > surveys > polls > &more now available to everyone (on all plans)

creators are trapped. this excerpt was from an article yesterday in Digiday. read carefully — Ryan Broderick couldn't leave patreon even if he wanted to. what if patreon increases their take rate to 20%? what if patreon stops innovating while the market moves on? what if patreon is actually limiting the growth of its creators? what can creators do then? the answer is simple — nothing. because they are stuck in a closed ecosystem that prioritized platform lock-in over giving creators optionality and choice. the same can be said for substack but it doesn't have to be this way.. the future of the creator economy must be open, interoperable, and creator-owned

yeah, but substack *is* another social media app it's another algorithmic feed that users don't control it's another social platform that promotes ragebait, like your #1 bestseller andrew tate (great get btw) it's another "creator-first" platform with a predatory take rate on their earnings the moment users upload their audience to substack, they are prompted to download your app (repeatedly) that's not their audience anymore, that's *your* user. that you collect data on. that you send push notifications to. that you are trying to monetize. without being able to export followers, and pushing people to use apple's in-app purchase ... these creators actually can't leave the substack ecosystem. so who are they really at the whims of?

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quick roundup of some of the biggest launches this week on @beehiiv... Joanna Stern is teaming up with NBC News and launching New Things Tom Sietsema, the legendary Washington Post food critic, is launching a newsletter L.A. Material is the latest Los Angeles-based media company, launching a daily newsletter, podcasts, and events who’d I miss?