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Conditional free route community
Researched from public pages — no submission was run · sources read 2026-09-25. Rules change — recheck the platform's own pages before submitting.
What the free route requires
- Submission is free but requires creating an account on the community board at news.bensbites.co
- Visibility is community-gated: top-voted posts get included in the daily newsletter; a submitted post without upvotes may only live on the board
- news.bensbites.co returned a 522 origin error at fetch time — the community surface may be intermittently down
Requirements
- AI-focused audience — posts should be AI tools, launches, or AI news
- Account registration (email) required before posting
- Community voting decides newsletter inclusion — thin self-promo posts will likely get no traction
Prepare before opening the form
- Email for account registration on news.bensbites.co
- Post title, description, and product URL
- Relevant tags/categories for the post
- A genuinely interesting angle — the newsletter audience is AI builders/investors
Workflow
- Go to https://news.bensbites.co (the community site — bensbites.com itself is only a Substack subscribe page)
- Create an account / log in
- Submit a post with the tool name, description, and URL
- Post enters the community feed where users vote; top-voted posts are picked up for the daily newsletter (100k+ subscribers)
Watch for
- bensbites.com and news.bensbites.co are different surfaces — the .com is a Substack newsletter signup with no submission form; the .co community board is the submit path
- news.bensbites.co was returning HTTP 522 (Cloudflare origin down) during research — verify it is up before planning around it
- Newsletter feature is merit-based on votes, not guaranteed by submission
- Paid 'Advertise with us' option exists on the community site for guaranteed placement
What counts as live
The submitted post is visible on the news.bensbites.co community feed; full success = inclusion in the daily newsletter email
Not verified
- Whether news.bensbites.co is still actively operated (522 error observed 2026-09-25)
- Moderation rules for self-promotional posts
- Whether the post page link is dofollow
- Newsletter inclusion thresholds (vote count is not published)