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Trustfnd powers collaborative growth for independent journalists. Create bundles of paid Ghost and Beehiiv publications, and free newsletter bundles across platforms. Trustfnd.com

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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 23/09/2026
Being independent doesn't have to mean doing everything alone. If you're in the U.S., team up with others to get discovered by people looking for good, independent journalism about the midterms. This is how 👇🏻
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 21/09/2026
Now you can easily spot who you can bundle paid publications with. Anyone on Ghost, Beehiiv, and Steady can offer time-limited access to a bundle of paid publications. Discover who's already there in our Collaborators tab, look out for the Bundle Pass compatible badge. Pay nothing unless you grow.
Creator profile card for @davejorgenson with a "Bundle Pass compatible" badge. Available for independent journalists on beehiiv, Ghost and Steady.
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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.myatproto.social · 21/09/2026
Just shipped a tiny new label that shows which other journalists use a platform that supports Bundle Passes, Ghost, Beehiiv, or Steady.
Card of @tubetalkmedia in the new Collaborators tab. It shows a small label that reads 'Bundle Pass compatible' with the icon of the publishing platform Beehiiv.
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 17/09/2026
[Mariah Carey voice] It's Ti-iiiiime! Next Thursday's Product Roundtable (10a NYC / 4p Berlin): gift options for Bundle Passes. We wanna make it super easy to gift a whole lot of journalism this season. Look at prototypes and think through the economics with us — DM if you want to join us.
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 14/09/2026
Not sure who to bundle with? Check out the Collaborators tab in Trustfnd to discover other independent journalists and connect with them right then and there.
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 14/09/2026
50 days to the midterms. Good time to create a Bundle Pass? Team up with other journalists to get discovered by people happy to pay for your journalism — even before they're ready to subscribe.
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Collaborative growth for independent journalists.
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 10/09/2026
We are offering a deal with @katz.theracket.news—$48 for a year's worth of BOTH newsletters, via @trustfnd.com!
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Trustfnd | Wars and Rackets Bundle
2 creators collaborating.
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 03/09/2026
NEW: The Collaborators tab is live on Trustfnd. See who's already there, what you have in common with them, and connect to get a bundle started. Independent journalist? Get verified for free: trustfnd.com
Headline "Connect. Bundle. Grow together." above three journalist profile cards fanned out. The center card shows @thelever (The Lever) with 3 collaborators, links to their website, Bluesky and Instagram, and a note "You are mutuals on Bluesky." A hand cursor is pressing a large red "Connect" button.
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 03/09/2026
This is great!!! Leave Substack and come use Trustfnd to grow!!!!
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 03/09/2026
Trustfnd is all about bundling the power of independent journalists across platforms, borders, and formats — and grow faster than ever together. If you haven’t launched a bundle yet or are thinking about your next one, the Collaborators tab is a great starting point.
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 03/09/2026
We also want to show you what you have in common with other journalists on Trustfnd. For example, we show you if you follow each other on Bluesky. If you haven’t already, add your handle to your profile.
Headline "Spot what you have in common" above a single profile card for @kattenbarge (Spitfire News) with 4 collaborators. Two highlighted commonality banners read "You are mutuals on Bluesky" and "You both cover politics and culture," with a "Connect" button below.
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 03/09/2026
When you connect with someone, we share your contact details with them. When they accept, you get theirs — and you take it from there over email or text, whatever works best for you.
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 03/09/2026
NEW: The Collaborators tab is live on Trustfnd. See who's already there, what you have in common with them, and connect to get a bundle started. Independent journalist? Get verified for free: trustfnd.com
Headline "Connect. Bundle. Grow together." above three journalist profile cards fanned out. The center card shows @thelever (The Lever) with 3 collaborators, links to their website, Bluesky and Instagram, and a note "You are mutuals on Bluesky." A hand cursor is pressing a large red "Connect" button.
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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.myatproto.social · 15/07/2026
One of our most requested features just dropped.
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 15/07/2026
Set it, then forget it: We’ll kick off an email series for everyone whose Pass is about to expire. We’ll keep track and let you know how many convert in your collaboration analytics. We hope you love it!
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 15/07/2026
Head to any bundle you’ve created, click ‘Manage,’ and add an offer. Journalists who’ve used Trustfnd tell us that annual subscriptions at a discount work great — but you’ll know best.
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 15/07/2026
NEW in Trustfnd: Upgrade offers email series 🥳 Bundle Passes are the best way for journalists to get discovered by people happy to pay for their journalism. Now you can more easily turn those people into recurring subscribers once their Pass expires. 🧵
Launch post showing the conversion of a Bundle Pass holder into a recurring subscriber. At the center, a phone displays an in-newsletter offer email headed "Keep access for a year at 30% off" from Autonomy News (autonomynews.co), with three checkmarked benefits above a black "Claim offer" button. 
A curved dotted arrow labels the reader as a "Bundle Pass holder" on the left transitioning to "recurring subscriber" on the right. Below, a timeline marks three email touchpoints across the pass lifecycle: "Expiring soon" (one email) and "Keep access" (three emails) during the active Bundle Pass period, and "Renew access" (two emails) after the pass has expired.
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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.myatproto.social · 07/07/2026
ICYMI: Seit letzter Woche können auch Journalist:innen auf Steady ihre Bezahl-Angebote bündeln. @trustfnd.com Bundle Passes funktionieren jetzt mit Beehiiv, Ghost & Steady — plus deutsche Checkout-Seiten und €uro-Preise. Eines der Bundles, die seither entstanden sind: das Nervenbündel.
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Trustfnd | Nervenbündel
3 Creator kollaborieren.
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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.myatproto.social · 02/07/2026
Help me find this person for @trustfnd.com — a person to help us - INSPIRE journalists about collaborative growth - SUPPORT them in building growth systems - BUILD our voice and community, including in the product If you *are* this person, hit me up. If you *know* this person, send them my way.
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 01/07/2026
Subscription bundling tool Trustfnd adds support for Steady (in addition to Ghost and beehiiv.) Bundle away Europe! I had never heard of Steady before today but it's an alt for Patreon and Stan Store if you're in the EU Here's Trustfnd's announcement
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 01/07/2026
We’re launching these new features with three of the best indie newsrooms in Germany. Think the cultural impact of Defector, but in Germany. Get @uebermedien.de, Good Impact, and @krautreporter.bsky.social at a 65% discount — for a full year. An incredible deal!
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Trustfnd | Der neue Medienpass
3 Creator kollaborieren.
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 01/07/2026
Also launched today: Features important for creators who have German speaking audiences and price their publications in €uros. If a user’s browser is set to German, they’ll see a localized checkout page and transactional emails. If you charge for your publication in €uros, we now honor that.
Trustfnd announcement graphic: 'Neue bundling powers for independent journalists!' highlighting two new features — German checkout pages and Pricing in Euro — shown alongside a phone mockup of a German-language Bundle Pass checkout screen for Übermedien, Good Impact, and Krautreporter.
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 01/07/2026
The addition of Steady is a big deal because Steady is built differently from Ghost or Beehiiv. Like Patreon or Substack, Steady doesn’t have an API we can access. Thanks for agreeing to partner and bring bundling powers to creators on your platform, @steady.page!
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 01/07/2026
*Just shipped:* Steady support for Bundle Passes. This means you can now bundle paid publications on Steady, one of Europe’s largest creator platforms, along with @ghost.org and @beehiiv.com. Tearing down those platform walls, brick by brick.
Trustfnd announcement graphic: 'Neue bundling powers for independent journalists!' introducing Steady integration alongside Ghost and Beehiiv logos, with the text 'Bundle paid publications across Ghost, Beehiiv, and now Steady.
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 29/06/2026
This week we'll be launching some new bundling powers for independent journalists: - in Europe - in Germany, specifically Turn notifications on so you don't miss it.
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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.myatproto.social · 16/06/2026
One stat I watch when journalists run @trustfnd.com bundles is the full bundle rate. That's the share of people who are new to *all* publications in a bundle. I love the high numbers here. They mean that you're not just sharing audience, you're actually growing it for everybody.
Six donut charts showing full bundle rates across Trustfnd bundles: 91%, 79%, 71%, 67%, 61%, and 46%. Each figure is the share of buyers who subscribed to every newsletter in that bundle.
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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.myatproto.social · 15/06/2026
It's pretty cool that the best feminist publications are using @trustfnd.com to offer their publications in a bundle. I've long admired @theflytrapmedia.com, @autonomynews.co, and am a @mothership.blog fan of the first hour. Push the button today, have your summer reading sorted.
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Trustfnd | Feminist Bundle
3 creators collaborating.
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Flipboard @flipboard.com · 15/06/2026
A great collab between our friends at @trustfnd.com and @theflytrapmedia.com, @mothership.blog and @autonomynews.co!
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 01/06/2026
Support more trans creators. This pride month and always. Happy pride month everyone.
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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.myatproto.social · 01/06/2026
Journalists have the reputation that they're shit at promotion. Not so. With @trustfnd.com they are showing that they're quite good at it — here are three types of promotion that we've seen working really well.
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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.myatproto.social · 26/05/2026
Loads to learn in here for anyone running a subscription business. Thanks for the detailed write-up, @lexroman.com!
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Marci McCue @marcimccue.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
If you're on beehiiv or Ghost, you too can bundle with other creators! Go to @trustfnd.com to start your discovery engine.
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Surf @surf.social · 21/05/2026
Want to support indie journalism? We teamed up with @trustfnd.com on a new bundle featuring @spitfirenews.com by @kattenbarge.bsky.social, @garbageday.email by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, and @lni.media by @davejorgenson.bsky.social. Check it out and subscribe. 👇🏻 surf.social/feed/surf%2F...
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Local Garbage Fire Feed by Trustfnd on Surf
Surf - 30-day Bundle Pass for all publications in this Feed. Save 50%. Get full access. Get Bundle Pass here: https://trustfnd.com/collaboration/local-garbage-fire--vSrCPBRkF8C4LhjLJbKo
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 19/05/2026
Hey who wants to go halfsies on a subscription
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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.myatproto.social · 19/05/2026
Let's make an interconnected and interoperable world of independent journalism happen. Indie journalists have institution-level attention, influence, and trust. Let's build infrastructure to help them build institution-level impact and power, too.
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Surf @surf.social · 19/05/2026
The @trustfnd.com Local Garbage Fire Surf feed, featuring posts from @davejorgenson.bsky.social, @kattenbarge.bsky.social and @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, is available on @bsky.app too 👇🏻 bsky.app/profile/trus...
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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.myatproto.social · 19/05/2026
🙌🏻 Trustfnd has partnered with @surf.social so every bundle you create can get a shared content feed, too. Check out the Local Garbage Fire Feed by @davejorgenson.bsky.social, @kattenbarge.bsky.social, and @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social. surf.social/feed/surf%2F...
Three circular profile photos of the Local Garbage Fire bundle creators — Ryan Broderick (left), Dave Jorgenson (center, with a green tint and googly eyes overlay), and Kat Tenbarge (right) — above the text "Local Garbage Fire Feed."
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The TCA @tvcritics.org · 18/05/2026
Experiment time! We're using @trustfnd.com to power a collaboration between more than two dozen TCA members, whose newsletters you can get with just one click here: trustfnd.com/realityblurr... Take a deeper dive into the newsletters here: www.tvcritics.org/tca-member-n...
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Trustfnd | TCA's TV critic newsletter bundle
14 creators collaborating.
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 18/05/2026
For everyone who joined early, we don’t take it for granted. You’ve bet on us without knowing where it’s *actually* going to go. Let’s keep going. Let’s bundle to multiply our reach. Let’s build institution-level power for independent journalism. Let’s go: trustfnd.com
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 18/05/2026
If you need inspiration what you can do with Trustfnd, do it like @davejorgenson.bsky.social, @kattenbarge.bsky.social, and @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social. They just launched their bundle today. Get 50% off all their publications with a 30-day Bundle Pass.
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Trustfnd | Local Garbage Fire
Three creators collaborating.
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 18/05/2026
We know that even these prices won’t be affordable to everyone. Startups and journalists serving underserved communities get Trustfnd for free. Apply here: trustfnd.com/pricing/disc...
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 18/05/2026
It’s free to join. Once you hit 25 sign-ups from bundles, a free trial starts. After that’s over (and you didn’t cancel), it’s $25 per month. That's the deal. But it wouldn't be a celebration without an even better deal: Get 50% off for a year if you join in our first month.
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 18/05/2026
Like you, Trustfnd is completely independent. No VCs, no platform money, just us. So we need to introduce a paid plan. But you pay nothing until you actually grow. Here's how our pricing works:
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 18/05/2026
If your publication isn’t on Ghost or Beehiiv, you can grow your free list in a bundle. Across platforms, all platforms, even Substack.
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 18/05/2026
Share this with all of Bluesky: Trustfnd is fresh out of beta! Now all independent journalists with Ghost and Beehiiv can team up and offer audiences limited-time access to their publications in a bundle. And grow faster than ever.
Trustfnd launch announcement card showing a "Local Garbage Fire" 30-day Bundle Pass featuring three collaborating publications — Local News International by @davejorgenson ($7.50), Spitfire News by @kattenbarge ($2.50), and Garbage Day by @garbageday ($2.50) — available for $12.50 total, saving 50%. Integrates with Ghost and Beehiiv.
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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.myatproto.social · 16/05/2026
Some incredible testimonials here
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 16/05/2026
On Monday, we start. That’s when we’re launching Trustfnd out of beta and let everyone on Ghost and Beehiiv offer time-limited access to their publications in a bundle. Leaving you the weekend to sign up and get a sweet surprise on Monday.
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 16/05/2026
“I gained more paying customers in a week than previously in an entire year.” — @katelynburns.com, Burns Notice
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 16/05/2026
“Since December 2025, The Xylom's newsletter audience has grown by 36%. More than a third of the new subscribers came via a Trustfnd collaboration. This has helped us bring in more donations, getting us back to profitability.” — @alexip718.com, The Xylom
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