Kate Watson-Smyth

@katewatsonsmyth · Mad About The House by Kate Watson-Smyth · Substack profile · Design

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Kate Watson-Smyth has 40,298 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #6 on Substack's Design Bestsellers board. 61 publications recommend them, 1 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 19.

Followers read 7 days ago · Boards read 6 days 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: 40,298; read Oct 31
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 24K+; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: Thousands; bestseller badge 1,000+
Recommended by: 61; +1 in 30 days
Recommends: 19
Bestsellers rank: #6; 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 Kate Watson-Smyth on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Oct 31, 2026	40,298		24K+	Thousands

Leaderboard positions

Board	Rank now	Best on record	Reads on it
Design Bestsellers	#6	#6	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	6	6	6	6	0

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

61 publications recommend Kate Watson-Smyth; 1 started in the last 30 days. Kate Watson-Smyth recommends 19, and 8 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

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 2025 (outlined) I see only those from the 6,392 publications whose full lists I read.

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Recommendations started per month
Month	Started
2023-10	1
2023-11	1
2024-01	1
2024-04	1
2025-01	1
2025-02	1
2025-03	1
2025-04	1
2025-05	2
2025-06	1
2025-07	3
2025-08	1
2025-09	4
2025-11	8
2025-12	4
2026-01	8
2026-02	2
2026-03	3
2026-04	3
2026-05	1
2026-06	3
2026-07	4
2026-08	2
2026-09	2
2026-10	2

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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.