Things and Stuff

@annieportelli · Things and Stuff · Substack profile · Design

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Things and Stuff has 4,174 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Nov 6, 2026, they were #46 on Substack's Design Bestsellers board. 7 publications recommend them, and they recommend 5.

Followers read 7 days ago · Boards read 2 h ago

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: 4,174; read Oct 31
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 3.7K+; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: 100+; bestseller badge 100+
Recommended by: 7; none new in 30 days
Recommends: 5
Bestsellers rank: #46; 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.

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 Things and Stuff on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Oct 31, 2026	4,174		3.7K+

Leaderboard positions

Board	Rank now	Best on record	Reads on it
Design Bestsellers	#46	#46	4 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.
Writer	Oct 3107:00	Oct 3113:00	Oct 3119:47	Nov 621:50	Move
Design Bestsellers	47	48	48	46	▲1

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

7 publications recommend Things and Stuff. Things and Stuff recommends 5, and 2 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 7 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

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.

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Recommendations started per month
Month	Started
2025-12	2
2026-03	1
2026-04	2
2026-05	1
2026-06	1

Recommended by

Carter Were14k followers · started Mar 31, 2026 · mutual
Highly Enthusedstarted Jun 19, 2026 · mutual
Sense & Sprout Journalstarted May 20, 2026
silky pearstarted Apr 27, 2026
dammy's Substackstarted Apr 23, 2026
Sarah's Substackstarted Dec 15, 2025
fourteen.bstarted Dec 4, 2025

Recommends

Anna Newton152k followers · started Aug 10, 2026
India Knight123k followers · started Aug 10, 2026
Carter Were14k followers · started Mar 31, 2026 · mutual
Highly Enthusedstarted Aug 10, 2026 · mutual
Since No One Askedstarted Aug 10, 2026

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.

Who recommends writers like this one

Publications that recommend at least two other Design writers with 1,000 to 5,000 followers (66 writers in that group), but not Things and Stuff.

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