Around the middle of 2021, Dan went on a big spree of sponsoring other newsletters. I found at least 5 different newsletters, and he has sponsored between 2 and 4 issues of each.
TLDR sponsorship on the bytes.dev newsletter
And those are just the ones I could find. I’m sure the number is probably closer to double that since some newsletters don’t have online versions or they quit publishing them.
I don’t have numbers to say whether or not these were successful. But, at that point, he already had a lot of subscribers, so I have to wonder if there wasn’t some overlap between their audiences and the one he already had.
You don’t see him sponsoring many other newsletters recently.