I've been using this product for over 6 months now. They have created a great workflow for bookmarking links and curating a weekly newsletter. It powers my weekly SaaS newsletter, http:///hiten.com. I'm able to learn what people click on and make the newsletter better over time. This is a must have product for me.
I've long since been a fan of email-first startups (written a few years ago). That's actually how Product Hunt started.
Curated could be a useful tool for those looking to build an audience with far less hassle than manually-created newsletters.
@rrhoover I couldn't agree more :) The product grew out of my weekly round up of iOS developer news, iOS Dev Weekly (http://iosdevweekly.com]. I eventually got fed up with the manual work of getting it out every week and that's how Curated started ;)
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5 stars!! I love curated! Its made my weekly newsletter http://swiftdevweekly.co so easy and I am able to publish quickly.
We've launched our 'Curated'; https://startupfoundation.curate..., almost two months ago, and absolutely love how well it works. Actually over 50% of all the newsletters I personally receive, come from the Curated system. And now, anyone can start a publication on Curated with this friendly pricing structure :)
@daveverwer, I use Paper.li, I have also used scoop.it, Rebelmouse.
For enterprise level content marketing, I have explored TrapIt and Kapost too. I wonder how 'Curated' is any different from a long list of curation tools that we already have!
@vingar Great question. I guess the primary thing is that we're big fans of the human element in the curation process :) Many of those tools automate the curation process to a some extent whereas our focus in on automating everything that *doesn't* benefit being done by a human. We believe this is the best way to get our publishers to really concentrate on quality when publishing. Putting together an issue of content is still very simple, collect the links, curate and write about them, hit publish but we don't try and automate the content at all and encourage our curators to concentrate on adding their voice to it with the commentary under each link.
Other things? We're also really interested in different methods of distribution. The content is what's important here and we want your subscribers to be able to receive it in their preferred medium. If that's email, that's great but we also host a web site for you (on a custom domain if you choose), offer Safari Notifications, RSS, etc...
The workflow has also come directly from my experience in doing this for over three years with iOS Dev Weekly (http://iosdevweekly.com) so it's very well tested in terms of keeping on top of being able to keep up the commitment of pushing out quality curation every week.
Another 5 stars from me! We used Curated for our weekly curated FinTech newsletter, http://fintechfeed.com/
It's *incredibly* easy to set up and use, and comes with some pretty handy inbuilt GA integration and a great interface for managing content and sponsorships.
Thanks @daveverwer!
Agree with all that Curated is a great product and @daveverwer has been awesome to work with.
I use it at http://FullStackMarketer.com / http://GrowthShip.com and makes everything extremely easy. Bookmark your top posts each week and publish your newsletter in minutes.
Plus, a great community of people like @hnshah to learn from.
Most of the newsletters I get these days are being powered by Curated. Great work! Best wishes on the launch. I'll certainly be considering moving my own newsletter over.
Can you share any thoughts on the future of Curated (stuff you'd love to get in place next)? Would love to see a way to bring over my list from other sources (I may have missed that from my brief glance).
@xmcgraw You certainly can import lists, there's some advice here and instructions on how: http://support.curated.co/hc/en-...
As for future plans, we're not announcing anything else today but I would say that we're really committed to keeping the subscriber happy and one of the ways that we're planning to do that is to work on tools to help our publishers create the highest quality content they can. We also want to help our publisher's subscribers receive the content in the most convenient way for them. Right now that's email, web, rss, Safari notifications, etc... but we're already working on other distribution mechanisms as well.
@domydeal You can certainly see this information in the system, including opens and clicks for specific users. However, there's no export of that information just yet. It's something we would consider though, drop me an email at dave@curated.co with some information about where you'd like to import that data to. Thanks!
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