Every newsletter platform wants to own your audience. Every podcast host wants you locked into their ecosystem. I got tired of it.
So I built giv1.com — a combined newsletter and podcast platform where you own your content and your subscriber list.
The Problem
If you're a creator running both a newsletter and a podcast, you're probably juggling:
- Substack or Mailchimp for emails
- Anchor or Buzzsprout for audio
- Some glue in between to cross-promote
That's 2-3 dashboards, 2-3 billing cycles, and zero portability if you decide to leave.
What giv1 Does Differently
- One dashboard for both newsletters and podcasts
- Export everything — subscriber lists, content, audio files. No hostage situations.
- RSS-first — your podcast feed is yours, point it wherever you want
- Simple pricing — no per-subscriber gotchas that punish you for growing
Who It's For
Indie creators, solo devs with side projects, small communities. If you've ever wanted to send updates to your users AND record the occasional audio deep-dive without duct-taping three services together — that's the use case.
Tech Stack
Built with Node.js, a pretty standard setup. The interesting bit is the audio processing pipeline — server-side transcoding so you can upload basically anything and it comes out as a properly formatted podcast episode.
Still early days, but it's live and I'm using it for my own projects. Would love feedback from other indie devs who run newsletters or podcasts.
Check it out: giv1.com
Building in public — one SaaS at a time. Happy to answer questions about the architecture or the business side.
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