Introducing the new Refactoring! 📱

Today we are making some of the biggest announcements in the history of Refactoring!

We are introducing a brand new community platform, available both on the web and as a native mobile app on iPhone and Android 🎉

It takes everything we do at Refactoring and brings it together in a single place:

1. 💬 Community — it hosts all community conversations, events, and DMs.

2. 🏛️ Library — it stores all the Refactoring articles, interviews, videos, and resources, in a form that is easy to consume, search, and filter.

3. 🤖 AI Learning — it uses AI to help you go through all-things-Refactoring. A new chatbot is trained on all articles and community threads, and native AI summaries are available for all spaces and topics.

This is the result of several months of work, and I couldn’t be prouder!

When I started Refactoring in 2020, newsletters were extremely niche, and Substack was a small, obscure platform. Fast forward to today, there exist thousands of tech newsletters. There’s an explosion of content online, and uber-powerful AI everywhere to which you can ask anything.

So, why should you subscribe to a newsletter in 2025? Let alone pay for it? This is the question we work hard to answer every day.

Our goal with Refactoring is to help engineers and managers do their best work. We believe in doing so through great content and great community. These two work together:

1. We make people connect and exchange their respective experiences in the community, and

2. We synthesize such experience into stellar, timeless pieces of content for the newsletter.

This is a very human flywheel, and we are proud of it. We believe that community is indispensable in the age of AI, and we are doing our very best to support it.

For us, this is the best way to help engineers and managers inspire and support each other, grow professionally, and do outstanding work.

Let me know what you think!