I will be VERY curious to follow and see where this goes. I have been writing for Medium for about 8 months now, and though my following has grown I still have yet to earn more than $35 or so in a given month.

Further, my mailing list has not been doing much for me, though that is probably mostly on me for not making proper use of it.

Good luck.

Could you share what topics you are writing on for this experiment (and the tags therein)? That might be an interesting matter for consideration, too.

Thank you.