What features could Substack introduce to signal and reward high-quality, anti-slop ideas?
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Co-founder & CEO at Substack
Niche: Technology
Revenue: Not Publicly Disclosed /month
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Started: 2017
Substack could build tools that highlight concepts and themes that are driving meaningful, high-context conversations. Highlighting these spiky, high-variance ideas acts as the opposite of slop detection, showing readers that original thought is valued here.
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