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Finn'sights

Finn Tropy

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You Are Not Posting Too Little. You Are Learning Too Slowly.

What should I do next?

I spent 18 months trying to understand Medium.

Then I spent 23 months trying to understand Substack.

Not as a theorist. As a person opening the editor before work, after work, between support messages, between pro...

8 days ago
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Your Feed Is Lying About Your Notes

Posting Notes is like throwing darts at midnight

The Substack feed shows hits. It does not show attempts.

That distortion makes “one viral Note” feel closer than it is.

The truth is simpler: outcomes on social media are heavy-tailed. A f...

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Why Paying $60/Month for AI Tools Is a Trap (And What to Use Instead)

Pi + Ollama + Qwen: a newsletter stack that stops the subscription tax

I was spending $60/month on AI tools for a newsletter with 47 subscribers, mostly to draft Notes. The tools worked; the monthly line item didn’t - at that scale, it nev...

25 days ago
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The $1 Billion Feedback Loop You Can Now Build for $49

Same loop. One of these cost $1 billion to build. The other costs $49.

Netflix runs thousands of A/B tests simultaneously across 325 million subscribers.

Their personalization system — built on that constant stream of experiments — saves...

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22 Months. $26,752 Revenue. 721 Customers. The Tool I Almost Killed Twice.

4 am. Dashboard open. Kill-product doc one tab over. This is where this post started.

22 months of building tools.

$26,752 in net revenue — every dollar one-time, no subscriptions, no recurring billing tricks.

721 paying customers across...

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    I study creator growth the way engineers study systems—with experiments, dashboards, and curiosity. I build tools, test ideas on myself, and share what truly moves the needle for busy Substack creators. My tools store is https://finntropy.gumroad.com

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