Commune + Beehiiv
Beehiiv sends it. Commune gets it found.
Connect your Beehiiv newsletter and every issue gets a public page, a conversation, and a spot in front of people who read newsletters like yours. Anyone who subscribes on Commune lands straight in your Beehiiv list.
Free. About two minutes. Your list stays in Beehiiv.
How it works
Keep writing in Beehiiv. Commune does the rest.
Step 1
Paste your API key
Create an API key in Beehiiv and paste it in. If your account has more than one publication, Commune connects the first one Beehiiv lists.
Step 2
Your archive goes live
Pick the past posts to bring over. Each one becomes a public page with a conversation under it. From then on, every post you email shows up on Commune by itself.
Step 3
New readers flow back
When someone subscribes on Commune, they're added to your Beehiiv list, and Commune asks Beehiiv to skip its welcome email and double opt-in for them.
Between Beehiiv and Commune
What comes in, and what goes back.
From Beehiiv
- The past posts you pick, using the free version of each
- Every new post you email, through one address Commune adds to your list
- Your active subscribers' email addresses, once a day, so readers already on Commune are subscribed to you there too
Back to Beehiiv
- Readers who subscribe on Commune, as new Beehiiv subscribers
- Two custom fields on them, is_on_commune and acquired_via_commune
- An unsubscribe, when a reader leaves your newsletter on Commune
Discovery
Get read by people who already read newsletters like yours.
Sending is solved. Getting found isn't. On Commune, your Beehiiv issues sit next to other independent newsletters, and readers move between them through the feed and the conversations under each post.
Step 1
A reader comes to Commune for another newsletter.
Step 2
Your latest post is right there in the same feed.
Step 3
One click, and they're your subscriber.
Every newsletter here sends readers to the others, yours included. The more it grows, the more it sends.
Your API key
Exactly what Commune does with it.
Commune uses your Beehiiv key for a short list of things. The client it runs has no way to do anything on the second list.
Commune will
- Read your publication and your posts to publish them on Commune
- Read your active subscribers to bring your readers into your community
- Add people who subscribe on Commune, and unsubscribe those who leave
- Create two custom fields that mark readers who came from Commune
- Add one Commune address to your list, so new posts reach Commune by themselves
Commune will never
- Create, send or delete a post
- Delete your subscribers
Disconnect any time from your Commune dashboard, then delete the key in Beehiiv if you like.
When you're ready
Or move your sending to Commune.
Questions
The short answers
- Does it cost anything?
- No. Connecting Beehiiv to Commune is free. Sending from Commune instead is the Creator plan.
- Do I change anything in Beehiiv?
- No. You write and send exactly as before. Commune adds one address of its own to your list, so new posts reach it, and unsubscribes it when you disconnect.
- Which posts come in?
- When you connect, you pick which past posts to import, with public ones selected for you. After that, every new post you email comes in by itself. Commune only ever reads the free version of a post.
- What happens when a reader unsubscribes on Commune?
- Commune unsubscribes them from your Beehiiv list too.
- What happens if I disconnect?
- Your posts and their conversations stay on Commune. Readers Commune added to Beehiiv stay on your list there.
Connect Beehiiv in about two minutes.
Free, and nothing changes in how you write or send. Every issue gets a conversation and a place in the network.