David Conelly Orellana

David Conelly Orellana

Rethinking newsletter mailing tools
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About

You can mute me on Twitter, ignore my DMs, but my emails? They will find you 😅

Work

Founder & Leadership

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Maker History

  • LetterBucket
    LetterBucket
    Newsletter Mailing to Grow and Monetize your audience
    Jun 2025
  • 🎉
    Joined Product HuntDecember 18th, 2024

Forums

Building a Newsletter in public: Here’s What We’ve Learned

We ve been building Idea TBD in public - a weekly drop where we share raw product ideas, highlight early-stage tools, and experiment with building a community around curiosity and creativity.

It s scrappy. It s messy. It s ours.

Here s what we ve learned so far

Substack Traction

What do you think of Bucket's new, markdown-inspired homepage?

We just launched a new bucket.co.

Inspired by Markdown, a plain text formatting syntax by @gruber, readable and consistent, we wanted to reflect on a vision making feature flagging as frictionless as possible.

Nika

2mo ago

What strategies do you usually use for growing your social media and newsletter when you stagnate?

A few weeks ago, I started to feel like I had hit a plateau on social media, especially with my Substack newsletter. I couldn t seem to get past a certain number of subscribers (stagnation).

In similar situations, I ve noticed that people often either:
run a giveaway
pay for ads

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