What Tools and Software Does Dickie Bush Use? (His Writing Stack)

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Dickie Bush went from zero followers to a writing business worth millions, built on a daily-writing philosophy he teaches through Ship 30 for 30. Because his entire brand is about writing online, people often ask what tools he actually writes and publishes with. Below is a breakdown of his stack, with alternatives. (Accurate as of mid-2026; tools change, so treat this as a current snapshot.)

Like the other writers on this list, Dickie's core message is that the habit beats the tooling. Ship 30 for 30 famously started in a humble setup — people writing short essays and screenshotting them — long before any polished software existed. So the tools below are an optimization of a simple practice, not a prerequisite for it.

Writing and publishing

Dickie's signature tool is the one he co-founded: Typeshare, an all-in-one digital writing platform with templates, hosting, analytics, and education built in. He created it (with his business partner and an early Ship 30 member) precisely because he and his students were writing their 'atomic essays' in scattered places like Apple Notes and screenshots — Typeshare exists to let you write and publish across platforms from one place. It's the natural anchor of his stack and the tool most tied to his teaching.

Newsletter and audience

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Dickie built his following primarily on X (Twitter), where the original Ship 30 challenge took off, and he publishes his newsletter on Substack. The pattern he teaches and uses: write short on social to test ideas, then expand what resonates into longer newsletter pieces — letting audience data guide what gets developed.

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Community and AI

Ship 30 for 30 began life in a Slack community, and community has stayed central to how Dickie runs his cohorts and businesses. More recently he's leaned into AI writing tools — he runs a product and newsletter (Write With AI) built around turning ChatGPT and similar tools into a writing assistant, so AI-augmented drafting and ideation are now an explicit part of his workflow. Many writers in his world also use Notion to organize ideas and drafts.

How to copy his setup

The honest version of Dickie's stack is simple: one place to write and publish (Typeshare, or any editor plus your platform of choice), a social platform to test ideas (X), a newsletter to deepen the ones that land (Substack), and increasingly an AI assistant to draft faster. But the tool that matters most is the calendar — his whole method is writing and publishing every single day. The software just removes friction from a habit you have to build yourself.