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Growth · April 6, 2014

Hover Post

Hey HN! Email marketing can be super intimidating for people that don't live and breathe it all day long. So even though there’s a growing desire among YouTubers to build an audience they own outside of the whims of the algorithm and email would is the perfect answer to that? They just don't. Or, even more common, they start and then abandon it a few weeks later. So I made a tool that makes email marketing as simple as adding a link to your descriptions, cards/end screens, and channel just like they already do for social, Amazon links, Patreon, etc. Early results are really promising…

Hover Post launched on April 6, 2014 with 68 votes, #405 of 1,174 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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What it does

Email marketing is powerful, but intimidating. So we made it as simple as adding a link to your episodes, videos, and channel. Viewers click, sign up, and automatically get an email alert every time you upload.

Build an audience you truly own and drive more engagement for every upload simply by adding a link in your show notes / descriptions. Your fans click, sign up, and automatically get an email alert every time you upload. Hoverpost is free. --> There's no catch, it really is free. Every year I build a new tool to practice new skills. Sometimes they are paid, sometimes they are free like this one. The success of my other projects (like SendView ) help cover the small cost of running this and my other free tools. No problem. You can create sign up links for as many channels or podcast feeds as you'd like from a single account. Each one will have their own separate sign up form, subscribers, and…from hoverpost.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN! Email marketing can be super intimidating for people that don't live and breathe it all day long. So even though there’s a growing desire among YouTubers to build an audience they own outside of the whims of the algorithm and email would is the perfect answer to that? They just don't. Or, even more common…

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