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Mataroa vs Substack
Pricing, founders, indie status and curated alternatives compared from our directory — all data points sourced from each tool's public site or press materials.
Mataroa
Naked, bare blogging and newsletters.
Freemium · $9/yr or pay what you wantBootstrappedOpen source
Substack
Publish a paid newsletter with the Substack social layer.
Newsletters & EmailFreemium · 10% of paid subscriptions
At a glanceMataroaSubstack
- Pricing
- $9/yr or pay what you want
- 10% of paid subscriptions
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Freemium
- Founded
- —
- 2017
- Location
- —
- San Francisco, USA
- Bootstrapped
- Yes
- —
- Open source
- Yes
- —
- Category
- —
- Newsletters & Email
- Indie alternatives
- 0
- 5
- Founders
- —
- Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, Jairaj Sethi
Key differences
Funding
Mataroa is bootstrapped / open source; Substack is venture-backed.
Open source
Mataroa is open source; Substack is closed source.
Indie alternatives
Mataroa has 0 curated indie alternatives in our directory; Substack has 5.
Differences are derived directly from the data on each tool's page. Empty fields mean we haven't verified a value yet — never that one tool lacks the capability.
Founder of Mataroa
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