news.ycombinator.com• Jul 24, 2025• 1 min read
Ask HN: Substack for Product People?Hey everyone,I'm a co-founder of Roundups.aiJust wanted to gauge the temperature for a "Substack for Products." We initially launched as a content play for bloggers trying to stay relevant in the age of AI with high value content and easy monetization, but with Google killing SEO, unless you have an existing blog and audience, you would have a mountain to climb to realize value from Roundups.-- What does it do now? What could it do? ---AI analyzes products and generates guides that influence buying decisions. Creators generate revenue when an audience gains insight and makes purchases.So, our thinking is that if creators are embracing platforms like Substack and Behiiv where they can own their subscribers and remove SEO as a dependency for growth and engagement, there is market opportunity for a Substack for Product People.---Why?---Platforms like Mailchimp and Kit are for marketing funnels, and Substack and Beehiiv are for monetizing "prose" (people who want to monetize writing). Roun