Most people start a newsletter and immediately stress about growth, costs, and how long it’ll take before the list actually makes money. But if you’re using Beehiiv, you can flip that entire equation on its head. Beehiiv has a built-in monetization system called Boosts—and once you understand how Boosts work, you can literally get paid to grow your list. Not in six months, not after sponsors, not after building massive traffic. Day one. Here’s how it works and why this model is exploding across the creator economy. When someone subscribes to your newsletter, Beehiiv can automatically trigger a pop-up showing other newsletters they can subscribe to with one click. If that new subscriber opts into any of those newsletters, Beehiiv pays you. Simple. In practice, the payouts average around $1–$2 per subscriber, depending on the niche and how many newsletters they choose to join. Some people subscribe to one. Some subscribe to three. It averages out nicely. So imagine this: You drive 1,000 people from social media to your opt-in page. They join your list. A percentage of them join recommended newsletters afterward. You walk away with $1,000–$2,000 instantly—before you’ve even emailed them once. No sponsors. No product required. No friction. Just instant list monetization. Here’s where it gets crazy. If you’re decent at ads, you can get newsletter subscribers for $0.70–$1.00 on Meta or TikTok. Sometimes cheaper. Now combine that with Beehiiv Boost payouts: Pay $0.80 to acquire a subscriber Earn $1.00+ from Boosts when they opt into other newsletters Profit $0.20 and get a subscriber for negative cost This is how you build a 50,000-person email list… for free. Your competitors are paying thousands a month to grow their list. You’re getting paid to grow yours. And it gets even better. Once someone joins your list, they automatically get shown Boosts. But after that?

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I just want to ask who is celebrating Easter this weekend. In Austria we are celebrating it with eating boiled painted eggs and some nice family time. How do you celebrate easter?

Most builders ship apps with zero security. They focus on features, design, and shipping fast. Security feels like homework. It's boring. It's not sexy. It doesn't get quote-tweets. Then they hit 10 users and the app starts breaking. Or worse, someone opens the browser console and realizes they can see the entire database. This is the exact 30-minute security checklist I run before every MVP launch. It's not exhaustive. It's not paranoid. It's the minimum viable security layer that protects you from the most common attacks and keeps your app from leaking data or racking up surprise bills. If you're shipping AI tools, SaaS, or any app with user data, bookmark this and run through it before you publish. 1. Row Level Security in Supabase This is the number one thing people skip and it's deadly. Without Row Level Security, anyone can read your entire database by opening the browser console and running a query. They don't need to hack anything. They don't need special tools. They just open DevTools and type a command. I've seen apps with thousands of users ship without RLS enabled. The database is wide open. User emails, passwords (hopefully hashed), payment data, everything. Here's how you check: Go to your Supabase dashboard. Click Authentication, then Policies. If you see zero policies, your app is completely exposed. The fix is simple. You need to add policies that restrict who can read, insert, update, or delete rows based on the authenticated user. If you're using Lovable, just ask it to enable RLS and write policies for your tables. It'll generate the SQL and apply it automatically. If you're doing it manually, here's the basic structure: Create a policy that says "users can only read rows where the user_id matches their own ID." Do this for every table that stores user-specific data. This takes 5 minutes and it's the difference between a secure app and a data breach waiting to happen. Don't skip this. Ever. 2. Test every single auth flow Signup, login, password reset, email verification.

This is not a question. More of a statement. Since @Eliya Elmakis has changed his frame I am fully hooked. I was feeling like an outlier my whole life. I disrupted everything I found. Sports, nutrition, relationships and even how you can convey a message that people really understand. But it is not about me. It is about us. Did you see the foundation course? Did you download the manifest and the picture? I did both. The picture is my phone background so I can see it every fucking day and reminds me who I am. I also started to read the famous book of Malcolm Gladwell: The Outliers (which should be our holy grail by the way 😋) Success has nothing to do with having a lot of money. Success is when you feel happy, appreciated and heard. No matter what others say. Always remember this: Success is your secret weapon that lies in most of us. We just have to seed first and the we can harvest everything. Happy to be part of this community. Cheers Felix (aka Fex)