How I made Substack my job (accidentally)

Happy first birthday to The Hyphen plus a Q&A <3

me checking the comments and loving the chats <3

On 2nd March this year, it marked one full year since I pressed ‘publish’ on this Substack page. I imported around 8k previous subscribers from an old newsletter and now, in just one short year on Substack, I’ve reached almost 20k free subscribers and 1k paying subscribers! Meanwhile, my Instagram has stay…