The leaderboard for growing newsletters — the 500–50K subscriber range. Ranked by real reader engagement, not subscriber count or who paid the most.
Substack's own discovery tools overwhelmingly favor newsletters that are already massive. If you're building from zero — even with genuinely good content — there's almost no organic way for new readers to find you.
savd.site exists to fix that. Every ranking is based on what real readers actually do — save a newsletter, click through to subscribe, or like an update — not on subscriber count and not on who paid for a spot.
We're building this for the newsletters that are actually growing right now, not the ones that already won.
Newsletters are ranked by a combined engagement score — saves, link clicks, and likes from real visitors. The more genuine engagement a newsletter earns, the higher it ranks. Subscriber count plays no part in ranking.
Spotlight slots — the rotating cards on the sides of the homepage — are paid placements, clearly separate from the ranked leaderboard. Buying a spotlight does not move a newsletter up the leaderboard itself; it's a separate, additional placement.
Always free: listing your newsletter on the leaderboard, your public profile page, posting creator updates, saving and liking other newsletters, and being discovered by readers. No invite code is required to list — that field only appears for people who arrive through a personal invite link, and it's entirely optional even then.
Optional, paid upgrades: a $250/month featured spotlight slot for extra visibility on the homepage, and a $9 one-time unlock for adding 5 product links (a course, ebook, anything you sell) to your profile. Neither is required to be listed, ranked, or discovered.
Listing on savd.site is free and always will be. Your newsletter goes live immediately — no approval wait. We may unlist newsletters that are spam, abandoned, or violate our terms, but we don't gate listing behind manual review because we don't want creators waiting around.
Get discovered by readers actively looking for newsletters like yours. Free to list, forever.
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