“Some of Substack’s largest publishers earn well over $1M annually; stuck paying Substack hundreds of thousands of dollars for what amounts to a simple API call to Stripe (something any junior developer could build in just a few hours).
Building within a walled garden has its limitations. Besides the lack of ownership, brand identity, audience data, and control of distribution… you’re locked into a closed ecosystem.
Substack doesn’t offer an API, webhooks, or integrations with any third party platform. That’s right — all of the incredible tools and platforms that make up the modern creator ecosystem are entirely shut off to those on Substack”
https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/death-by-thousand-substacks