Weekly Prompts.02: Substack stats and the format for a wilderness survival guide

Learning about the Substack audience, developing a newsletter brand and a prompt for an interesting template.

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A focus on Substack research and brand development for my newsletter. Additionally, some random questions for side research and creativity. This week’s prompts include:

1. Research on demographics and behaviors of Substack users (Grade: D)

2. Pull taglines for list of Substack newsletters (B)

3. Suggest format for a wilderness survival guide (A)

4. Research best AI tool for creating a logo (A)

5. Find the five most watched tutorials on AutoGPT (C)

6. Research the best SPL Meters (for audio recording) (A)

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Prompt: Research on demographics and behaviors of Substack users

Please tell me everything you can about the audience who uses the publishing platform SubStack. I need to provide me information about: 

* audience demographics, in particular geography, age, professions, likes 

If you can find it, I would also like to know about: 

* active user counts (all-time, yearly, monthly, etc.) 
* Revenue achieved through substack subscriptions (I would prefer this data year over year) 
* User trends over time (are more people signing up or less?) 

Do you have any questions?

This one became a long back and forth thread and never really materialized into any empirical numbers. I thought Copilot’s internet access would handle that a little better.

Grade: D

Prompt: Pull taglines for list of Substack newsletters

Please provide me the taglines for all of the follow substacks. I have provided you a list of high-performing substacks below and want you to find the taglines. 

By substack, I am referring to the publishing threads on the platform Substack. 

-- Substack titles START -- 

Letters from an American 
The Pragmatic Engineer 
Lenny's Newsletter 
Bulwark+ 
The Fifth Column 
The Free Press 
Slow Boring 
Tipping Point Prophecy Update 
House Inhabit 
The Isolation Journals 
Parent Data 
Unreported Truths

-- Substack titles END --

This one worked maybe better than expected, as Copilot pulled all the taglines. It did require some finagling with the output. In retrospect, the output format is something I could have dictated during my initial prompt.

Grade: B

Prompt: Suggest format for a wilderness survival guide

What is the most basic format of a wilderness survival guide?

Answered in one-shot and gave me exactly what I needed: a starting point.

Grade: A