Chris Best

And so if you're just trying to have like a...

a good podcast host for free.

Substack works for that.

And you still get the subscription feature.

So people can still come and give you their email and subscribe.

We also have the ability to pay well.

So you can do a paid subscription and then people can, if they're using their podcast app, they can add their private podcast feed and get the paid version.

Now that the app exists though, that those things work even better because you can, anybody who has the Substack app can go to the like listen tab and find the things that they're subscribed to that they want to read.

The app is definitely growing over time.

I would say, yeah, a lot of the most voracious readers are increasingly using the app.

Yeah, you can also, I mean, we have a read aloud thing.

So as the author, you can read aloud, you can create your own audio version of the post, which I actually love when people do that.

Or we have a really good AI one if you don't do that, or if you just want, if you're in the car, but you want to hear this post, you can do that.

The other thing I'm really excited about is, you know, we talked about for writers, the fact that you could come and type into this box,

And if the thing you type was great, everything else is taken care of.

We're working on a set of features that I think we'll be able to do that for video and audio conversations.

The current incarnation of this is Substack Live, where you can go live from the app.

And the thesis behind this is we're at the point with some of these new AI tools that if you...

can have a really interesting, you can have something that feels like a FaceTime conversation or a video call.

And if you can have the most interesting conversation in the world, we can make all of the other pieces sort of work automatically in a way that's sort of newly good.