Beacons

Beacons is primarily a 'link in bio' tool for creators, offering features like a customizable profile page, analytics, and monetization options (selling digital products, memberships). While it has some features that overlap with an online publishing platform (like email marketing and analytics), it lacks the core 'rich text editor' for long-form content creation and a 'distribution & recommendation engine' for surfacing content within its own platform, which are must-have features for Medium. It focuses more on aggregating existing social media content and direct sales/marketing for creators rather than hosting and distributing original long-form articles.