How To Import Back Catalogue From Medium and Substack to Hashnode

As a content specialist and tech writer, I have had quite some experience using various content management, publishing, and blogging platforms for most of my personal blogs and articles. This has in turn provided a certain level of exposure to most blogging platforms, and an understanding of what each of these blogging platforms has to offer to me as a writer.

Being a writer or blogger in this modern era provides a certain level of possibilities on becoming successful as there are various open publishing platforms to create a personal blog, publish content, and earn a living from your content.

With popular writing platforms available, millions of writers earn a living from publishing their content from anywhere in the world. Substack, Medium, and Hashnode are top blogging platforms that allow writers to build an audience and monetize their blog posts.

However, there is a fundamental and clear difference between these three platforms, as they use significantly different business models, features, and target audiences. For those who might want to understand which platform works for you as a writer, I'll help differentiate each of them.

Substack vs Medium vs Hashnode

Substack, founded in 2017 is a platform designed to help content creators monetize their audiences through paid email newsletter subscriptions. it provides writers with an online platform to publish their content and monetize it. Medium on the other hand is a blogging platform and social network, designed to give writers a place to let their voices be heard. Medium also allows writers to share their stories with the world with their easy-to-use editor.

For technical writers looking for a tech-related audience, Substack and Medium might not be the best fit. Hashnode is a writing platform built for the tech community. Content posted on this community is exposed to over 2 million active developers, builders, web3 enthusiasts, and other tech communities.

Benefits of Importing Back catalogs from Substack and Medium to Hashnode

Hashnode as a go-to blogging platform built for the tech community is ideal for tech writers willing to reach a special target audience for their articles. With content ownership as a core feature on Hashnode, it is a free alternative to Substack and Medium for tech writers to instantly find a tech community for their articles.

Here are some outlined benefits of using Hashnode as a preferred blogging platform for tech writers.

1.) Find your preferred audience instantly

Hashnode functions much more than just a writing platform as it is also a content distribution platform. Publishing great and relevant content on Hashnode guarantees incredible exposure to over 2 million active developers, builders, and tech enthusiasts.

2.) Blog on your personal domain

With Hashnode, you can set up a custom domain and start blogging from your own domain in a matter of seconds. It's your content so, Hahnode gives you total ownership of your content and personal domain. Hashnode blogging platform is amazingly fast, secure, and it exposes your content to the right audience.

3.) No interrupting ad pop-ups

Unlike Medium and Substack, Hashnode will not hide your content behind a paywall as they believe that content should be made available to everyone and anyone. There is also no form of interruption from annoying ads and pop-ups making your experience on Hahnode exceptional.

Having known the basic differences between these three writing platforms and the benefits of migrating to Hashnode as a tech writer to reach the right audience, this article is aimed to help educate people on how to move their back catalog from both Substack and Medium to Hashnode.

Let's get you started!

Importing Articles From Substack to Hashnode

Here is a simple guide to importing your blogs from substack to Hashnode.

Step1: Go To Substack

Once you get on Substack, simply head to the dashboard and click on it. Then, locate “Settings” at the top right corner and then click on it to get to the settings page.

Step 2: Export Your Data

While on the settings page, scroll down and locate the “Export Your Data” section under settings and click on “Create new export”. Once you do that, you should get an email and a prompt indicating that your data is ready to be downloaded. Then Click “Download” to download a bulk HTML. Substack supports HTML export.

Step 3: Convert Bulk HTML to Markdown

Once downloaded, make use of an online HTML to markdown converter to convert the downloaded bulk HTML into a Markdown file ready to be uploaded on Hashnode.

Step 4: Head to the blog dashboard on Hashnode

After you have converted the bulk HTML from Substack to a markdown file, Head to Hashnod and click on the writer's blog dashboard and then locate and click on “Import”. Use Hashnode's Bulk Markdown Importer to migrate all your articles to Hashnode in minutes.

Importing Articles From Medium to Hashnode

If you're already on Medium, Hashnode's Medium Importer enables you to migrate your entire back catalog over to your Hashnode blog in a matter of minutes. Here is a simple guide on how to do that.

Step 1: Go to Medium

Once you're medium, click on your profile picture to find settings, and then click on “Settings” on the drop-down that appears.

Step 2 Download your data

On the settings page, go to “download your Information” to download the zip file of your back catalog from Medium.

Step 3: Go to Hahnode Dashboard

After you have downloaded the data from Medium in the form of a zip file, head to the blog dashboard on Hashnode, then click on "import" to upload the zip file downloaded from Medium.

Step 4: Publish your Articles

After the data is successfully uploaded, select the posts you want to publish and press the Publish button to publish the article on your Hashnode blog successfully.

And that is it. You can now easily import your blogs and back catalog from either Medium or Subtack down to your Hashnode blog to get the visibility your content deserves.