For Substack writers and hybrid creators
The business backend for your Substack.
Substack handles your publishing. This handles your growth.
You are a writer, not a salesperson. But the collaborators, interview guests, and sponsors who will grow your publication are already in your contacts. Upload them, and Pod Green Room shows you exactly who to ask, with the warm note to send, so you never start from a blank page.
No account or card to try it. No connection to your Substack, we only read your public feed.
Priya Nair
Writes The Operator's Notebook
Her readers are your readers one step further along. A swap here reaches people already paying to read about this…
Your note
Priya, I write for people building small teams without a playbook, and your piece on onboarding docs…
The blank page is the problem. This removes it.
Upload your contacts
Your LinkedIn export or a CSV. The dormant professional network every writer has and almost none of them use.
See who to reach out to
Every contact ranked by audience fit and how well you actually know them. No more staring at a blank page deciding who to ask.
Send a warm note, not a cold pitch
Outreach written in your voice, grounded in how you know them. Follow-up nudges so a quiet inbox never kills a collaboration.
Paste your Substack URL. It does the homework.
Connect your publication and Pod Green Room reads your recent posts, what you write about, what you keep returning to, who has appeared in your work, and uses it to rank your network by who actually fits your readers. Not who is impressive. Who fits.
Public feed only, the same posts any reader can see. Nothing to authorize, and your subscriber data is never touched.
Paste any of these:
yourname.substack.com
open.substack.com/pub/yourname
yourcustomdomain.com
Run a podcast on Substack? Everything here works for you today: guest ranking, warm invites, prep pages, and a sponsor pitch built from your lineup.
Run your network freeYou do not need the Bestseller badge to get paid.
Substack’s Bestseller badge takes 100 paid subscribers. Direct sponsors need something different: a specific audience they cannot reach anywhere else, and a writer who can describe it honestly. That, plus a pitch and a follow-up, is a skill you can borrow.
Start with the templates below, free, no signup. When you are ready to track who you pitched and where every conversation stands, that is what the product is for.
Pitch a cross-promo
Propose the smallest swap: one mention each.
Copy the templatePropose a recommendation swap
Recommend them first. Then ask.
Copy the templateInvite a guest post
Name the one piece only they can write.
Copy the templatePitch a newsletter sponsor
Small list, real numbers, one clear placement.
Copy the templateAsk them to share the post
It is live. Hand them the link and the caption.
Copy the templateDecline a swap gracefully
Wrong fit. Say no without burning the bridge.
Copy the templateTry it on your real network, free.
Top 3 matches before an account or a card. Then 7 days of full access free, and $6/mo locked for life as a founding member if it earns its keep.
Common questions
Is Pod Green Room for newsletters or podcasts?
Both. It was built for solo podcast hosts, and everything a host uses works today: if you run a podcast on Substack, paste your publication URL and your feed, episodes, and guest history all work right now. If your publication is written, the core engine is the same: it ranks your real network by audience fit and warmth so you know exactly who to invite, feature, or pitch.
Do you connect to my Substack account?
No. There is no login connection and nothing to authorize. Pod Green Room reads your publication's public feed, the same recent posts any reader can see, to understand what you write about. Your subscriber numbers, revenue, and reader data stay yours and are never accessed.
What does it cost?
You can upload your contacts and see your top 3 matches free, before creating an account or entering a card. A 7-day free trial then unlocks the full ranked network. After that, founding members pay $6/mo locked for life. Cancel anytime.