Show Your Work. Beautifully.
A visual portfolio for your newsletter.
For my tourism industry contacts, this week’s post is about a tool I built for writers. Feel free to skip this week; normal programming resumes next Tuesday.
Somewhere on Substack right now, someone is publishing chapter twenty of a serialized novel. Someone else is on recipe number fifty. There are travel writers sharing photo essays and guides from interesting places around the world (hi). There are personal essayists with two years of writing that reads just as well today as the day they published it. The range of what's being built here is hard to overstate, and most of it is happening one person at a time. But once you've built that archive, how do you easily show it off?
The only tool built for this costs $999 a month (really), and it still has to be updated manually. Fine if you’re a major publication with a social media staff. The rest of us get a link-in-bio page, an ugly stack of text links that all look the same and say nothing about what you actually do. I wanted something better. So I built it.
It's called stack.pub — your publication, in a visual stack. Point it at your newsletter, and it builds a clean photo grid of everything you've published there. The design is intentional, setup takes under two minutes, and once it’s live, it just works. Publish a new story and your grid updates automatically. That’s it.
Turns out a clean visual grid of your writing is useful everywhere: social media bio link, portfolio, media kit, email signature —and every click goes straight back to your publication.
Set up yours in as little as 2 minutes.
Paste your URL and go. Your posts, cover images, and links pull in automatically from custom domains or your Substack URL.
One link for everything. Put stack.pub/yourname in your Instagram bio, email signature, or media kit.
Updates automatically. Publish a new story and your grid updates.
See where your readers come from. stack.pub traffic shows up attributed in your newsletter dashboard.
Every page includes a subscribe button that links directly to your publication.
Your content stays yours. stack.pub doesn't import, copy, or store your posts. We just display them.
Change the styles whenever you’d like. This is version one. There’s more coming!
Try it free with your own newsletter at stack.pub.
Here’s mine: stack.pub/scottmonaco
Before you go, I write mostly about travel and culture (with a little humor mixed in). If this is your first time here, please take a look. It would mean a lot to have you as a subscriber.