Substack problems, and how to fix them

“I'm worried I'll build my audience on a platform I can't customise, integrate or leave easily.”

Fix with: Import converter

“I just want my latest Substack posts to show up on my website and in my other tools, without hacks.”

Fix with: Posts & Archive API

“Substack's new-subscriber email used to tell me who signed up; now it just says someone subscribed and my automation broke.”

Fix with: Subscriber analytics from your export

“My subscriber import was held for review, then denied, and Substack never told me why.”

Fix with: Website embeds & content webhooks

“Substack shows me opens and clicks, but not where my subscribers come from or which paid readers are going quiet.”

Fix with: Subscriber analytics from your export

“Substack suspended my account and now I can't even download my own subscriber list.”

Fix with: Automatic backups

“Moving my drafts from Obsidian or Markdown into Substack is the worst part of my week.”

Fix with: MCP server for AI agents

“Moving my archive or Markdown drafts to Substack means pasting every post by hand and fixing the formatting.”

Fix with: Import converter

“If my Substack account were suspended tomorrow, I would lose my posts, my images and the subscriber list I spent years building.”

Fix with: Automatic backups

“My readers subscribe on Substack, but my real marketing lives in Kit, and there is no easy way to get the list from one to the other.”

Fix with: Subscriber analytics from your export

“My company blog is on Substack, but I can't get the posts to show up on our own website.”

Fix with: Website embeds & content webhooks

“I want Claude to help with my Substack, but it can't see my posts or my stats.”

Fix with: MCP server for AI agents

“I get leads from ads and forms, but there's no way to get them into Substack without typing emails in by hand.”

Fix with: Website embeds & content webhooks

“Nothing syncs from Substack to my CRM or Kit, so I'm exporting CSVs by hand and still missing people.”

Fix with: Subscriber analytics from your export

“Substack has no webhooks, so nothing fires when someone subscribes or when I publish a post.”

Fix with: Website embeds & content webhooks

“I need trustworthy Substack numbers, but there's no public API and every roundup quotes different figures with no dates.”

Fix with: Subscriber analytics from your export

“I added my Meta pixel to Substack but I can't tell what it tracks or whether it's working.”

Fix with: Subscriber analytics from your export

“Substack doesn't integrate with Zapier, Make or my CRM, so I can't automate anything around my newsletter.”

Fix with: Posts & Archive API

“My Substack dashboard and my Stripe account never show the same revenue or paid subscriber numbers.”

Fix with: Subscriber analytics from your export

“I'm paying for Meta ads, but there's no way to get the leads into Substack without typing them in.”

Fix with: Website embeds & content webhooks

“My AI agent can't read my Substack unless I'm a Bestseller.”

Fix with: MCP server for AI agents

“My script calling Substack returns 403 no matter what cookies I send.”

Fix with: Posts & Archive API

“I need a newsletter platform whose API can add subscribers and send webhooks, and Substack's can't.”

Fix with: Posts & Archive API

“I want my AI agent to work across my newsletter tools, but every platform's MCP is different or missing.”

Fix with: MCP server for AI agents

“I need my Substack posts and stats in my own app, but Substack says there's no public API.”

Fix with: Posts & Archive API