Moving your entire newsletter — posts, audience, settings, and all — to a new platform is a big ask. We want to make it easy to experience the value of publishing on Paragraph without deciding to move platforms and go through an import flow.
That’s why we’re launching Auto-Crosspost, a new feature that lets you automatically publish your existing newsletter to Paragraph — no extra work, no switching platforms, no moving subscribers.
It’s a simple way to reach a new audience, get more visibility for your writing, spark more discussion around your ideas, and open up new ways for readers to support you.
All you need to do is create a Paragraph account and drop in your publication’s RSS feed, and we’ll take care of the rest.
Once you connect your RSS feed, every new post you publish will automatically:
Appear on your Paragraph publication
Be sent via email and wallet to any Paragraph subscribers
Be eligible for minting and other new monetization features
Reach new readers across Paragraph’s discovery surfaces
You can always edit, hide, or delete any crossposted post, and it's easy to turn off the connection at any time. This feature works with any publishing platform that supports RSS feeds, including Ghost, Medium, Substack, WordPress, Beehiiv, and more.
At launch, you’ll need to manually share crossposted posts to Farcaster to tap into its full benefits. Once shared, your posts will load instantly in the Paragraph mini app and be easy to read, discuss, subscribe to, and collect, all without leaving the social feed.
Soon, writers will be able to sign in with Farcaster and grant write permissions, allowing their crossposted posts to automatically publish to the Farcaster social feed. This is a key ingredient in getting more visibility, reader sharing, discussion, and earnings for your work.
In the coming weeks, we’ll also start sending a stats email after each crossposted post, highlighting the extra views, readers, and revenue you earned by publishing onchain.
We want to help writers get more out of their work without any extra effort. Auto-Crosspost is a first step toward making it easy to publish on Paragraph and tap into all the benefits that come with it.
Here's how to get started:
Head to paragraph.com and create an account.
In the publication settings, scroll to the Auto-Crosspost section.
Paste your publication's RSS feed and click connect.
Your next post (and every post after) will automatically publish to Paragraph, helping you grow your audience and earnings with zero extra lift.
Have questions or feedback? We’d love to hear from you — just drop us a note at hello@paragraph.com.
Colin Armstrong, Reid DeRamus and Meesh
Over 2.6k subscribers
It is a cool idea
YAAAS 🫰 Paragraph takeover is upon us! 💜
great idea
This is awesome. Can you crosspost from Kit?
Excited to introduce a new way to grow your audience and get more from your writing. Automatically crosspost from Medium, Substack, Ghost, and more to Paragraph — reach new readers, spark deeper discussion, and unlock new ways for people to support your work. https://paragraph.com/@blog/bringing-the-next-wave-of-writers-onchain
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Love this @colin and @reidtandy ! If I add my substack RSS to an existing paragraph account, I assume in addition to automatically publishing any new substacks to my paragraph publication, I can also go in and manually add paragraph-only posts in the same publication?
Yes!
nice! Paragraph just became my catch all. Had been publishing stand alone pieces on paragraph, and regular newsletter/journals on substack. Will continue to use paragraph for stand alone blogs, but now it will also have my newsletter content. New Description for my paragraph publication: A collection of essays and reflections spanning crypto, tech, entrepreneurship, parenting, wellness, spirituality, and travel—now featuring all posts from my substack newsletter, Some of the Things.
The future improvements paragraph is a little confusing "At launch, you’ll need to manually share crossposted posts to Farcaster to tap into its full benefits" Dont know what this means exactly. As long as my substack posts start getting auto published to paragraph, sounds like a great step towards eventual migration.
We want to eventually support a Paragraph to Farcaster auto publish flow. Eg, you could imagine you sign-in-with-Farcaster on Paragraph, and we can auto-cast (from your account) every time you publish. So, if you're auto-crossposting from Substack, it'd go from Substack -> Paragraph -> Farcaster, all automatically. This is in the future, though, and not 100% related to the Substack -> Paragraph crossposting flow!
gotcha! not a priority for me, btw, but sounds nice to have when its ready
Awesome feature
Vampire attac good
@gmo
does it work the other way round? paragraph to medium/substack etc
I wish! But sadly not at the moment, it's hard for us to control the flow in that direction.
great move So if I crosspost from substack, it automatically creates a mirrored paragraph account for that content? Just curious how it works exactly
Pretty much, yes, with the caveat that you need to set up an existing Paragraph account first - set up Paragraph publication - connect this publication to your Substack by dropping in your Substack URL - voila - any new time you publish on Substack, we mirror it to Paragraph
You would need to create a Paragraph account if you don't already have one & connect your Substack (or any RSS feed) to Paragraph, then you're good to go — any new post on Substack is automatically published to Paragraph w/ no extra action needed.
This is how I understood it
This is a very good one
awesome! Love this idea If someone has subscribed to substack and paragraph, does that mean that two emails would be sent out?
Yes, if someone subscribes to both, they'll get the email twice, but we think that'll be a very rare edge case. If it becomes an issue, I think it's solvable.
Got it! Just trying to gauge my next steps, since I had previously imported all of my substack email list to paragraph, so I have about 300 email overlap, but subsequently got 200 emails ish on paragraph alone Just wondering if there’s an easy way for me to continue using paragraph for emails and just not send out the substack portion as an email (keeping it as a post) 🤔 Might just have to do an excel comparison
Expand your reach effortlessly with Auto-Crosspost, a new feature allowing automatic publishing of your newsletter to Paragraph. Simply connect your RSS feed, and watch as each post gets wider visibility and support without the hassle. Start maximizing update visibility today! @paragraph