Why I put my Substack essays on Hashnode

TLDR: this week I copied my four Oscar Labs essays from Substack to Hashnode, to see if developers read here. Substack stays the home. This post is the log so far, and a question at the end.

What I did

Four essays went up: where my tokens go, my Garmin stress data against my agent history, JEV judging my own work, and the final way of writing. An agent prepared the markdown, covers and images, and put them up. Each one keeps a canonical link back to Substack, so search engines treat Substack as the original and nothing competes with itself.

Why here

I write about building with coding agents. Substack is built for newsletters: subscribers, email, a home page that is mostly people I already know. Hashnode is built for developers who write. Same essays, different room. I wanted to know if the second room has people in it.

So far

The posts that show a count each say 1 view. Probably mine. That is the honest starting number.

What I don't know

Does anyone browse Hashnode to find things, or does it all come from search? Are developers still writing here, or did everyone move to their own blog, Medium, dev.to or back to X threads? Is cross posting useful, or just a second place to forget to update?

The question

Where do you actually read long posts about building with agents? Tell me in the comments, or on X. I will write up what people say.

Substack, the original home: morkeeth.substack.com