Derek Hughes
@derekhughes · The Irresistible Writer By Derek Hughes · Substack profile · Education
Derek Hughes has 23,689 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Nov 6, 2026, they were #18 on Substack's Education Rising board. 63 publications recommend them, 23 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 50.
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
- 23,689
- read Oct 31
- Last 7 days
- first number on Nov 7
- Last 30 days
- first number on Nov 30
- Subscribers
- 9.1K+
- rounded by Substack
- Paid subscribers
- 100+
- bestseller badge 100+
- Recommended by
- 63
- +23 in 30 days
- Recommends
- 50
- Bestsellers rank
- none
- Rising #18, Education
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.
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| Date | Followers | Change | Subscribers | Paid band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 2026 | 23,689 | 9.1K+ |
Leaderboard positions
| Board | Rank now | Best on record | Reads on it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education Rising | #18 | #10 | 4 of 4 |
Rank on each read
| Writer | Oct 3107:00 | Oct 3113:00 | Oct 3119:47 | Nov 621:50 | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education Rising | 75 | 10 | 10 | 18 | ▲57 |
I read every board once a day.
Recommendations
63 publications recommend Derek Hughes; 22 started in the last 30 days. Derek Hughes recommends 50, and 6 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.
When the recommendations started
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| Month | Started |
|---|---|
| 2024-08 | 1 |
| 2024-09 | 1 |
| 2024-11 | 1 |
| 2025-03 | 1 |
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-10 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 3 |
| 2026-07 | 8 |
| 2026-08 | 4 |
| 2026-09 | 12 |
| 2026-10 | 27 |
Recommended by
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All 63
- The AI Switchstarted Oct 15, 2026new
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- An Open Horizonstarted Oct 13, 2026new
- Matthew Beans 🫘started Oct 11, 2026new
- Quiet Millionaire Studiostarted Oct 11, 2026new
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- The Curated Lifestarted Oct 7, 2026
- SHUTupJAKEstarted Oct 5, 2026
- My Paper Memorystarted Oct 3, 2026
- Ideas to Richesstarted Sep 28, 2026
- What Time Reveals-Chroniclesstarted Sep 26, 2026
- TheEnlightenedWriterstarted Sep 25, 2026
- Your Experience as a Dividendstarted Sep 24, 2026
- Fadel🐎started Sep 19, 2026
- My MS: Unfilteredstarted Sep 18, 2026
- Nadya Bircastarted Sep 18, 2026
- Dionatas vieirastarted Sep 10, 2026
- On the One Livestarted Sep 9, 2026
- wildflower rebellionstarted Sep 7, 2026
- The Offramp started Sep 4, 2026
- Being Pivotal Substackstarted Sep 3, 2026
- English Bites With Zarastarted Aug 30, 2026 · mutual
- The Sam Anirudh Newsletterstarted Aug 28, 2026
- Fog 2 Freedomstarted Aug 23, 2026
- Daily Prayer Point by Fr Anthony Ndichiastarted Aug 21, 2026
- Data Humorstarted Jul 27, 2026
- Diary's Substackstarted Jul 22, 2026
- The Systems Coderstarted Jul 17, 2026
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All 50
- English Bites With Zarastarted Oct 12, 2026 · mutualnew
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- Steele Cutstarted Aug 21, 2026
- The Solopreneur Draftsstarted Aug 21, 2026
- The Writing Chroniclesstarted Aug 19, 2026
- The 1% Brand Brilliancestarted Aug 17, 2026
- Principles not playbooks started Jul 9, 2026
- 9-To-Thrivestarted May 13, 2026
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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 Education writers with 10,000 to 50,000 followers (65 writers in that group), but not Derek Hughes.
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- recommends 3 of them
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- recommends 2 of them
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