Ask HN: Recommendations for a self-hosted Substack alternative?

1 pinter69 4 7/15/2025, 3:55:34 PM

I'm looking to re-start my old newsletter, along with a new website. Every webpage will also be a newsletter email. Looking for a simple to use setup, where I will own the data and audience and will not be reliant on a platform to exist X years from now and continue serving me in a reasonable price

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noleary · 48m ago

It seems to lean more into transactional email than being a 1:1 Substack clone, but I have heard good things about Dittofeed [1]. It's pretty self-hosting friendly, all things considered. [2]

We went with Substack basically because it's really easy to newsletters live on as webpages, but if you're going through the trouble to self host and build a website anyway, Dittofeed might be a good fit.

[1] https://www.dittofeed.com/

[2] https://docs.dittofeed.com/deployment/self-hosted

toomuchtodo · 1h ago

https://ghost.org/

pinter69 · 53m ago

It doesn't look to be self hosted

Stoo · 50m ago

It is, but they don't make it obvious on the home page. They have self-hosted getting started docs here: https://ghost.org/docs/

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