How My Cybersecurity Newsletter Gained Over 1K Subscribers in 2023

Why Starting a Newsletter is worth it in 2024 !

At the end of 2023 I reached a major milestone which was hitting over a 1000 subscribers on my newsletter

My newsletter is called The Cloud Security Guy and it is mostly similar to what I write on Medium i.e. Cybersecurity career advice, Cloud Security, AI risks etc.

I initially started a Substack as a backup for my Medium articles but I REALLY started taking it seriously in 2023

The main reason .. the changes which Medium made to their algorithm in 2023

Suddenly tech writers were seeing huge decline in their views and earnings

August Was Brutal for Tech Writers on Medium

It really woke me up to the whole “own your audience” thing that everyone keeps going on about