The Substack Restack Exchange: Your New Community Growth Engine
The Official Substack Restack Exchange - a brand new home for Creators, Curators, and Community Builders on Substack.
If you feel like you’re struggling to get your writing noticed on Substack, or searching for a better way to connect with like-minded writers… your search ends here!
This newsletter is officially launching as The Substack Restack Exchange.
What is the Restack Exchange?
Think of this as a cross between a discovery engine, a networking hub, and a mutual growth engine. The concept is simple, powerful, and built entirely on the collaborative spirit of the Substack ecosystem - a dedicated place to find, share, and restack other people’s posts, and in return they will restack yours.
Growth on Substack doesn’t have to be a lonely uphill battle fought entirely through SEO or Recommendations.
True growth happens through community and it’s restacks - and putting that great work in front of fresh eyes.
That is precisely what we’re going to be building together!
Oh, and it will always be FREE to Subscribe
Why I Built This
Substack’s built-in recommendation and restack features are some of the most potent tools available for writers, but connecting with & finding people can be overwhelming.
So I created the Substack Restack Exchange to solve three major problems for writers:
Discovery Limitation of Notes: Posting on Notes only goes out to your own followers or subscribers - who already know you exist! But when someone else restacks your post, it goes out to all of their followers as well - which creates the compounding effect, and NEW visibility for that post!
The Visibility Gap: Great writing deserves a wider audience. By sharing and restacking each other’s work, we amplify individual voices to get them heard by people outside of our own neighborhood.
Isolated Growth: Building this audience is way easier and much more fun when you do it shoulder-to-shoulder with other creators who share your drive.
How It Works
Moving forward, every edition of this newsletter will serve as a launchpad for community connection. Here is what you can expect:
Featured Spotlights: Hand-picked posts from our community restack members that deserve a wider read.
The Comments Section: This will be a dedicated space where you can drop your best recent post, find fellow writers in your niche, and coordinate restacks.
Growth Insights: Actionable tips, tricks, and strategies on how to optimize your Substack, engage your subscribers, and make the most of the platform’s network features.
Let’s Build Together
The Substack Restack Exchange is only as powerful as the community inside it. Whether you’re a seasoned writer with thousands of subscribers or just published your very first post today, you have a home here.
Here’s what you can do right now to kick things off:
Leave a Comment on this post so others can see you - or post a link to the Article or Note you’d like to be restacked by others - then you restack one for them!
Subscribe so you never miss an edition or an opportunity to share your work
Hit the Restack button on this post to spread the word to your own subscribers and welcome other writers into this community.
Keep an eye on your inbox - every Tuesday I’ll be featuring a few of our most engaging restackers, to get their work in front of ALL our free members.
Let’s find, share, and grow together.
Come learn the Benefits of a Restack Swap - and why you’d want to use them!
Paul Arino
The Substack Restack Exchange
Want to learn more about how a Substack Restack works!
If anyone would like to do a Restack swap, either with myself or another person…
- Just simply hit Restack on this post, then I will know who to Restack back.
- If not, just leave a Comment here, so other users can see you and what you write about, then they can decide from there who they’d like to do a Restack swap with.
Thank you so much https://substack.com/@davidoaks - you are officially the 1st restack member - and I appreciate you.
Hopefully more to come soon!