An Unexpected Encouragement from the Substack Community
I’ve been cross-posting my articles on Substack while primarily focusing on X.
Since I don’t engage much with the Substack community, I hadn’t checked my dashboard in a while.
Today, a notification led me back to find a significant spike in both subscribers and “Pledged Annualized Revenue” around late January.
It turns out the catalyst was my piece “HBF (High Bandwidth Flash) and Optics: The Missing Link in AI Infrastructure.”
https://substack.com/@photoncap/p-185864719
Monetizing my SNS wasn’t the plan, but seeing $192 in pledged revenue from only 79 subscribers caught my attention. I’m not certain if this is considered a high conversion rate, but it’s certainly encouraging.
It’s a powerful motivator to see that my insights are resonating and providing real value to the community.
Please add me (https://substack.com/@photoncap, https://x.com/PhotonCap) to your list.




