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Amanda Hesser has 617,259 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #4 on Substack's Design Bestsellers board. 76 publications recommend them, 10 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 53.

Followers read · Boards read

Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers
617,259
read Oct 31
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
Subscribers
607K+
rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers
Thousands
bestseller badge 1,000+
Recommended by
76
+10 in 30 days
Recommends
53
Bestsellers rank
#4
Design

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

600k610k620k630k Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 One reading a day from here 617,259
600k610k620k630k Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 One reading a day from here 617,259
One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Amanda Hesser on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
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Daily readings
DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Oct 31, 2026617,259607K+Thousands

Leaderboard positions

BoardRank nowBest on recordReads on it
Design Bestsellers#4#44 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
WriterOct 3107:00Oct 3113:00Oct 3119:47Nov 621:50Move
Design Bestsellers44440

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

76 publications recommend Amanda Hesser; 9 started in the last 30 days. Amanda Hesser recommends 53, and 10 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

4Mar 2532Jun2Sep331Dec1Mar132Jun2875Sep11
Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear. Substack shows only the 50 newest recommenders, so before Jul 2026 (outlined) I see only those from the 6,392 publications whose full lists I read.
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Recommendations started per month
MonthStarted
2025-034
2025-043
2025-052
2025-092
2025-103
2025-113
2025-121
2026-021
2026-041
2026-053
2026-062
2026-0728
2026-087
2026-095
2026-1011

Recommended by

All 76
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Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.

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Publications that recommend at least two other Design writers with 50,000 or more followers (13 writers in that group), but not Amanda Hesser.

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