... Many of us slowly build small but valuable audiences over time: newsletters about startups or AI niche blogs or dev communities SaaS products with engaged users waitlists or early adopter communities founder-focused X / Twitter audiences At some point sponsorships start to make sense. But there's a practical problem I rarely see discussed: How do you actually price your audience? For example: a dev newsletter with ~3k subscribers a SaaS product with 5k 10k active users a niche founder ... ... community a blog with ~20k monthly readers How do you translate that into a sponsorship

... commissions, don't prioritize smaller creators, pawn off deals to bigger creators, are human-bound, and most importantly, commoditize the very people creating the value. I can go on. We built Snippet to give creators an AI-powered alternative helping them find relevant brand deals, manage outreach, and handle sponsorship

... list links, but showed traction . So, I built Makers Page . The Demo What makes it different? Verified Revenue: Connect Stripe to show real MRR badges (Proof of skin in the game). Live Sparklines: Automatic charts showing your project growth. Sponsorship Bids: A marketplace built-in where brands can bid to be on your page. Built for Speed: Designed to look like a high-end tech portfolio, not a social media profile. I m currently moving from the UI phase into ... ... backend (Drizzle + NeonDB!) and I d love to get some feedback from this sub: What metric do you value most? (MRR, GitHub stars, or simple User count?) Would you use the "Sponsorship

... goal stays the same: help anyone earn directly from their posts through peer-to-peer sponsorships, no ads, no follower limits, no subscriptions required. With Phase 2.0, we re adding: Multi-platform post support for Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. A Smart Match system so sponsors can discover posts by engagement or topic. Email notifications for sponsors and creators. XCent aims to make the creator economy accessible for everyone, not just the verified few. See it live: https://xcent.site Comment ...

... step and monetise, I looked into Beehiiv . At that time, however, I wasn t in the mood to pay the costs without yet earning any revenue in my opinion, Beehiiv has the best monetisation model (subscriptions, ad revenue sharing, sponsorships, etc.). Considering costs... ... I went with a backup plan Substack . They offered fewer email formatting options, but at the same time allowed newsletters/articles to be publicly accessible. Since then, they ve added subscriptions and email testing ... ... Deleted Comment from Prithvi Damera(@damera_prithvi): I ve tried a few newsletter platforms, and for me it comes down to UX, monetisation flexibility, and analytics: Beehiiv great for growing with monetisation in mind, clean UI, and built-in sponsorship/ad

... trying to improve my sales when it comes to promoting my sponsored weekly newsletter. The current thing I want to focus on is to sell more spots. If you have a product based on sponsorships, what proved you as the best practice for "attracting" them? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @toni_pm Those 2 sponsors were from DMs? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @toni_pm did you have any results? What worked the best? Comment from Toni(@toni ... ... Curious to hear some tactics for The Product Courier too. Besides promoting the sponsorship

... working on a product that allows companies to sponsor open source projects. It's different from GitHub sponsors, Patreon, etc in that the developer: 1. Puts a link in their readme 2. Approves sponsors messages 3. The sponsorship message shows up to users (sponsors pay based on CPM) In short, it's an extremely curated ad network that still gives the open-source developer full control over who and what is displayed on their readme, but allows them to monetize ...