How I Built One Page a Day

If you’ve been following my activity on Twitter you would have seen my latest project, One Page a Day, an email service that sends you one page from a new book every morning at 7 am.

In this article, I’m going to go through how exactly the whole service works.

Landing Page (Free)

I quickly coded a simple landing page and deployed it for free using Netlify. The landing page links to the newsletter service.

Revue ($5 per month)

This whole service wouldn’t be possible without Revue. Revue is an email newsletter service that allows you to build and send emails to a list of email subscribers.

Amazon Kindle Free Samples (Free)

In order to provide one page from a new book every day. I use the “Send a free sample” option to get the first few pages a popular book:

Then if you open it on the Kindle app you can select and copy the text straight out of the sample:

Note: Amazon limits the amount of text you can copy to stop plagiarism from ebooks.

Then all I do is paste it into Revue and correctly format any issues with the text:

Amazon Affiliate Links

In order to break even with running costs I add affiliate links at the bottom of every book I send out:

You can add these to your Revue emails by inserting the affiliate link at the bottom of the email:

Conclusion

Building an email newsletter startup has never been easier. I could have saved time by using a no-code website builder to make the landing page and outsourcing the book copy and pasting but all in all, it takes me around 1 hour a week to run One Page a Day.

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