About
Your writing deserves a shelf
Newsletters are great at delivery. They're terrible at memory. StackPress gives writers and readers a way to turn a feed into a book.
I wrote a newsletter for years. Hundreds of posts. And one day I wanted to hand someone a collection of the best ones. Not a link. A book.
It turned out to be surprisingly painful. Copy into a Google Doc, wrestle with formatting, strip subscribe buttons by hand, fight image embeds, rebuild the cover in a design app, export to PDF, hate the result, start over.
StackPress is what I wish I'd had. A wizard that reads any newsletter archive, lets you pick the articles that matter, and spits out a professionally typeset PDF. It runs entirely in your browser. Your content never touches a database.
It started as a Substack-only tool. It now works with Ghost, Beehiiv, Medium, and any site with an RSS feed. If you can read it, you can archive it.
What I care about
Privacy-first
Everything happens in your browser. We don’t store your content, your PDF, or what you read.
Respect the writer
This is a tool for archiving and reading, not republishing. Credit is baked into every book.
Typography matters
Kerning, leading, widow control, real two-column layouts. Your writing deserves craft.
Who's behind it
I'm Matt Madonna. Twenty years in brand identity, design systems, UI/UX, motion, and front-end. Most recently on the product design team at DriveHealth. StackPress is a project I build nights and weekends.
If you have a book you want designed from the ground up — cover art, brand typography, custom layouts, print-ready files — that's a service I offer. Hit the Request a Quote button on the home page and tell me about it.