Harbour City Scoop: local newsletter, $1.4K in 30 days, Nanaimo

Harbour City Scoop publishes a free local newsletter, event calendar, and guides for Nanaimo residents. Its $1.4K in the last 30 days is verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026.

What it actually sells

Harbour City Scoop offers a free local newsletter, an event calendar, and downloadable Vancouver Island guides. The site describes local events, stories, and activities delivered twice weekly, with live music, markets, festivals, and family days out in one calendar.

The newsletter includes a searchable archive of past editions and a seven-day Nanaimo weather forecast. Its downloadable guides cover more than 40 Vancouver Island hikes.

How it charges

The pages we read do not state a price for the newsletter, calendar, or downloadable guides. The business also offers newsletter sponsorships, dedicated features, and event coverage to advertisers, but no currency amounts appear on the pages we read.

Month by month

Monthly revenue as read from the payment provider by TrustMRR, in US dollars, as of September 30, 2026.

Month	Revenue (USD)
2025-10	$14
2025-11	$876
2025-12	$744
2026-01	$386
2026-02	$853
2026-03	$1,199
2026-04	$871
2026-05	$3,922
2026-06	$1,785
2026-07	$1,267
2026-08	$1,519
2026-09	$1,422

Where customers come from

Harbour City Scoop acquires newsletter subscribers through free twice-weekly email delivery. Its site invites people to receive local events, live music, things to do, and community news in their inbox.

The site also offers downloadable Vancouver Island guides and accepts community event submissions through its “List Your Event” page. The founder lists Meta Ads as a growth channel.

What stands out

The site says it is “Made for Nanaimo” and “By locals, for locals.” It states that its focus is celebrating the community and keeping things positive. The newsletter is published twice weekly with local events, stories, and activities.

The site displays a claimed open rate of “60%+” and states that it has been “2 yrs Covering Nanaimo.” It also provides a searchable archive of past newsletter editions for readers who missed an issue.

From the official site

Made for Nanaimo By locals, for locals. We're all about celebrating our community and keeping things positive.

Summer plans and 40+ of the island's best hikes, ready to download.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

Harbour City Scoop's $1.4K in the last 30 days is higher than 79% of the 5,602 projects with payment-verified revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $150. Within the “News & Magazines” category (38 projects) it is higher than 84% (category median $40). Snapshot: 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

In my view, demand would come from local residents and visitors looking for a dependable way to find Nanaimo events, community news, activities, and practical outing information. The buyer is a local audience, while advertisers would be local businesses seeking newsletter sponsorships, dedicated features, or event coverage.

In my view, distribution would depend on publishing useful updates consistently, building an email audience, and giving readers reasons to return. The difficult parts are maintaining local coverage, handling submissions and advertising relationships, competing for attention in the newsletter and event-information space, and complying with applicable rules around advertising and published content.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

The clearest lesson is to combine a defined local audience with several useful surfaces: a twice-weekly newsletter, an event calendar, downloadable guides, and an archive. The site also gives advertisers specific ways to support the publication through sponsorships, dedicated features, and event coverage.

Sources

Harbour City Scoop official website, fetched October 1, 2026
Harbour City Scoop pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
Harbour City Scoop about page, fetched October 1, 2026
TrustMRR: revenue verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure