The Substack Field Guide: 2026 Edition
How Substack actually works in 2026, free. Read it before you build your whole thing there.
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Revenue Operations for Creators
The back office of a one-person business, on one page. The catalog's most-bought thing for a reason.
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The Simple-Fix PDF Engine
Turn what you already know into a PDF that sells while you sleep. The method behind half this shelf.
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The $0 Solo Creator Business Blueprint
Start the whole machine without spending a dollar. The on-ramp to everything else here.
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Simple-Fix PDF Field Manual
The longer companion to the PDF Engine. Every step, written down so you stop guessing.
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Creator Business & Ops33 items
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The Skills Pack
34 hand-built skills, each named for the job it finishes. Yours for good, or free with All-Access.
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Revenue Operations for Creators
The back office of a one-person business, on one page. The catalog's most-bought thing for a reason.
113+ sold
$4
Add to Cart
The Simple-Fix PDF Engine
Turn what you already know into a PDF that sells while you sleep. The method behind half this shelf.
59+ sold
$4
Add to Cart
The $0 Solo Creator Business Blueprint
Start the whole machine without spending a dollar. The on-ramp to everything else here.
57+ sold
$4
Add to Cart
Simple-Fix PDF Field Manual
The longer companion to the PDF Engine. Every step, written down so you stop guessing.
49+ sold
$5
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THIS GUIDE IS WORTH $400 A MONTH
Free, and it does what the title says if you run it. Read it before you buy anything else.
49+ sold
Free
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Niche of One Creator Business Bundle
The core operating system, bundled. Most of the business guides, one price, no decisions.
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The Gumroad Solution
Set up Gumroad the right way once so the selling part stops eating your week.
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Empire of One: The Solopreneur's Blueprint to Building Online
Build a real business as one person, online, without a team you can't afford.
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Niche of One Strategic Niche Selection
Pick the corner you can actually own before you waste a year in the wrong one.
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The Four Pillars
The four things a one-person business stands on. Get these right and the rest holds.
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Niche of One Content Creator GPT Kit
The prompts and setups that do the dull content work so you handle the thinking.
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The 7-Day Subscriber Surge
A week-long plan to add subscribers on purpose instead of waiting for luck.
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Posts to Products
The posts you already wrote are inventory. Here's how to turn them into things people buy.
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The 24-Hour MVP
Ship a sellable product in a day. Done and out beats perfect and unfinished.
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Niche of One Tool Cost Kill Sheet
Find the subscriptions quietly bleeding your business and cut them this afternoon.
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Building An Idea Engine
A small system that hands you something to make every day. Never stare at a blank page again.
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Digital Products That Don't Suck
What separates a product people finish from one they regret. Build the first kind.
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Niche of One MISSION Product Validation Manual
Find out if anyone wants it before you spend a month building it.
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Niche of One Project Management for Creators
Project management sized for one person, not a corporate floor full of them.
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SOPs You Will Actually Use
Write down how you do the work once so future you stops reinventing it.
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Building Simple Systems That Work For You [mini-course]
Set up the few systems that run your business so you stop holding it all in your head.
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Niche of One Creator Business Income Tracker
See what you actually made this month. The number, not the vibe.
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Niche of One Creator Business Timesheet
Track where your hours really go. Most of them aren't where you think.
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Your Content Goldmine
The archive you already built is worth money. Here's how to dig it back up.
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Niche of One Creator Ops Scorecard
One page that tells you if the business is healthy or just busy.
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Burn-Out Proof: Micro Strategies for Creators to Protect Energy and Stay Consistent
Small habits that keep you producing without running yourself into the ground.
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Niche of One: A Short Guide to the Long Game
The 20-minute on-ramp. What this whole thing is and why it works.
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Byte-Sized Brilliance
Create more with less. The minimalist creator's guide to higher output.
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Niche of One Side-Hustle Megasheet
One spreadsheet. Every side-hustle number that matters. Fill in the blanks.
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Living Minimal
Less stuff, more life. The minimalist operating system for your physical world.
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The Minimalist Creator: Mindset and Focus
The head game. How to focus when everything is trying to distract you.
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Hyperstitions
Fictions that make themselves true. A field guide to applied belief.
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Writing & Publishing8 items
The Substack Field Guide: 2026 Edition
How Substack actually works in 2026, free. Read it before you build your whole thing there.
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THE UNDERGROUND PUBLISHING SURVIVAL GUIDE
Publish outside the gatekeepers and keep the money. Field-tested, no permission required.
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The Digest Manifesto
Self-publishing as a working practice, not a dream. The argument and the method.
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The 300-Word Micro-Essay
Say the whole thing in 300 words. The format that gets read all the way through.
$4
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Minimalist Content Creation (Mini-Course)
Make good content with less. Fewer tools, fewer steps, more of it shipped.
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Permission to Think
Clear your head enough to have an actual thought worth writing down.
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The Minimalist Creator's Handbook
The whole creator practice stripped to what matters. Skip the rest.
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Worldbuilding in Military Science Fiction
Build a war that holds together. The logistics readers feel even when you don't show them.
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Thirty Bricks & Field Notes3 items
Thirty Bricks
Thirty short, load-bearing pieces. Read one a day and you've built something by month's end.
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Thirty Bricks Bundle
The full Thirty Bricks run, bundled. The whole wall instead of one brick at a time.
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The Unauthorized VA Claim Manual
How the VA claim game actually runs, free, from someone who fought it and won.
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Fiction6 items
Ellis Road
A noir short story. Free, because the fiction is how you find out if you trust the voice.
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Fimbulwinter
A cold open into the shared universe. Free to see if the world grabs you.
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Humboldt County: Day's Break
First light on a bad morning in Humboldt County. Free read, dark turn.
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Vesper - Crisis of Faith
Faith cracks under pressure and something else moves in. A short, heavy read.
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∞Mysteries 001 - 006
Six short mysteries from the deep end of the universe. Start anywhere.
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The First Frequency
Something is broadcasting and someone finally tunes in. The signal that starts it all.
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Mind & Magick3 items
You're Already Infected: A Survival Guide for the Memetic Warzone
A survival guide for the memetic warzone. How ideas use you, and how to use them back.
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YMMV: Proper Manifestation for People Who Want Results
Manifestation for people who want results, not vibes. Chaos magick with the fluff burned off.
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Babble-On 2020
A dollar's worth of glossolalia and noise from 2020. Cheap, strange, on purpose.
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Money & Everyday8 items
Apartment Urban Farming
Grow real food in a rented space with no yard and a landlord watching.
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Apartment Organization
Fit a whole life into limited square footage without the clutter winning.
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Dating Without Going Broke
Have a real dating life on a thin budget. The fun part doesn't have to cost much.
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Paycheck Power-Up
Get more out of the check you already earn before chasing a bigger one.
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Clean Your Place in 20-minutes
A 20-minute routine that keeps a place livable when you've got no time.
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No-Gym Fitness Starter
Get in shape with no gym, no gear, and no membership you'll forget to cancel.
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Apartment Living Bundle
The whole apartment series in one buy. Everything for making a rented space work.
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