I tried for months, for years, to figure out where I wanted to put the story I've been working on for about five years now. I was told to self-publish it because it has some features that make it unpalatable to the big publishing houses. Also I'm a straight white male with some socially conservative political views so I'm basically a no-go for those houses anyway.
I kept debating whether to put it on Substack, Royal Road, AO3, Wattpad, all these places, and then it hit me: I actually own the domain name of my pen name as a .com domain. I pay Google about $15 a year for it. So I'm just gonna get a website built on it, and put the story THERE.
I'm getting it worked on as we speak. Very excited to see how it turns out.