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Should I Use Thehustle?

thehustle.com·Analyzed 3 hours ago·Based on 10 sources

Worth it

Worth it

Subscribe free if you want a daily business-news email from a HubSpot-owned brand.

Free daily business newsletter, not software. Great if you want news email; nothing to buy or deploy.

Confidence: Medium

Free

Price

daily email newsletter

1M+

Subscribers

reported ~2M later

2021

Acquired

by HubSpot

4

Trustpilot reviews

extremely thin review base

Value for money5

It is free content.

Ease of use4

Email signup; read in inbox.

Security posture2

No public security page found.

Pros

  • Free daily business-news email⁷
  • Reached 1 million subscribers; later reported around 2 million²
  • Acquired by HubSpot in 2021; stable ownership¹
  • Reported sale over $30M signals a durable audience³

Cons

  • Not software — nothing to deploy, integrate, or buy⁷
  • Only 4 Trustpilot reviews; near-zero public feedback⁵
  • HubSpot-owned; expect promotional content mixed in¹
  • Lookalike sites like confuse legitimacy⁶

Gotchas

  • mediumFree, but it doubles as HubSpot's lead-generation funnel; expect cross-promotion.10
  • mediumLookalike domains circulate on TikTok; verify you subscribe on.⁶
  • lowOnly 4 Trustpilot reviews — cannot reliably gauge reader satisfaction.⁵

Best for

  • People wanting free daily business news
  • Founders who like punchy email digests
  • Readers fine with HubSpot-branded content

Not for

  • Anyone shopping for software — this is a newsletter
  • Teams needing CRM, analytics, or workflow tools
  • Enterprise buyers wanting support, SLAs, or contracts
  • Readers allergic to promotional email

Pricing

Newsletter subscription

Free

  • Daily business-news email
  • HubSpot-owned content since 2021

Security

No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

What users say

Public feedback is nearly nonexistent — a handful of Trustpilot reviews and scattered Reddit threads, mostly about lookalike sites.

“Is thehustle-lab.com legitimate?”
— Reddit, r/sidehustle

Alternatives

Compare Thehustle with each alternative.

Axios newsletters

Guess: free newsletters with more newsroom heft

RSS reader (e.g. Feedly)

Simpler: aggregate news feeds yourself

Full analysis

Based on ~10 usable public sources. Many evidence hits were for the 2019 film 'The Hustle' or unrelated 'hustle' brands and were excluded.

Sources

  1. HubSpot Signs Agreement to Acquire The Hustleir.hubspot.com
    news
  2. How The Hustle reached 1 million email subscribersmedium.com
    news
  3. How The Hustle sold for over $30Mthezerotoone.co
    news
  4. How Sam Parr built and sold The Hustletheygotacquired.com
    news
  5. The Hustle Reviews — Trustpilottrustpilot.com
    review
  6. Is thehustle-lab.com legitimate? — Redditreddit.com
    review
  7. Subscribe to The Hustle Daily Newsletterthehustle.co
    official
  8. Security page — thehustle.comthehustle.com
    security
  9. Sam Parr: Growing The Hustle to 2M subscribersgrowthinreverse.com
    news
  10. HubSpot + The Hustle case studycrossbeam.com
    news

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