
Side income strategies for the 45+ crowd who spent decades building someone else's dream. Now it's your turn.
| Platform | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly | |
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| Issues | 13 | Founded | 3 months ago | Last Issue | 14 days ago |
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Part 3 of the Your First Side Income, Started series
By day 30 of building my publication (The Side Door), I had published 4 posts, written around 30 notes (some of them were about showcasing other creators I liked), I had great conversati...
How the new audience-specific content feature works, and what to do with it
Substack introduced something last week that the great majority of people will use once, for one thing, and then ignore.
Part 2 of the Your First Side Income, Started series
Two publications, one marriage, zero chill. This is what I learned.
The Side Door started as a document of someone else’s project. My husband lost his job, and it wasn’t a romantic “ful...
A collab post by Yuvika Iyer (Quiet Creator) and Gabby Gazdag (The Side Door).
We started Substack in our 40s with zero audience… Yuvika’s and Gabby’s journey as beginners.
If you’re starting again in your forties or fifties, you already...
A few weeks ago, posted a note about building an AI writing system. He’d been working on it for months, and he wanted to find out: what frustration drove him to build this?
He didn’t have an answer. Despite months of building it, he could...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
I spent decades building other people's dreams. Now I'm building my own, and documenting every step so you can do the same. If you're 45+ and ready to finally make your move, you're in the right place.
restarting on substack in your 40s, 50s or 60s? me too...i explain the substack stuff that no one does, and publish my own numbers (including the wince-y ones) follow along \ud83d\udc47
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