New AI Newsletters were easily one of the biggest trends on Substack in the past 18 months. Oddly it’s gone a bit unrecognized by this platform and its leadership.

If AI had its own category it would benefit readers, writers and technology news publications around emerging tech and innovation broadly.

It would also enable people like me to perhaps have more hope that monetization is possible for people really into this niche.

In my little corner of the internet (for which I write several blogs a day and curate news), whether Substack does this or doesn’t probably determines my ability to continue for an extended period of time my coverage.

Technology is too broad a category and Substack needs to not just be about culture and politics but embrace a wider audience, otherwise its TAM becomes limited by its brand reputation even as the geographical and political base of its readers narrows.

Most readers and writers aren’t aware but there has been a considerable exodus of talent and writers in Technology, Finance, Business, Crypto, Investing and related topics. This is partially due to Substack not serving those audiences, niches and writers well.

If Substack wants to thrive it needs to adapt, adopting an AI category in my view, would be a necessary catalyst for improving the reader experience to a wider audience.

You cannot create a free market of writers and readers if you don’t treat all writers the same, allowing them to have a home. Having a leaderboard category is an important mechanism of discovery and ownership in the Substack ecosystem (always has been).

Whether you are a poet (e.g. a Poetry Category) or an AI writer you are as much deserving as having a category as say something as obscure as Cooking, Philosophy, or Comics! 😈🤹🏼‍♀️🔐 Unfortunately the people working at Substack don’t seem to agree!