Hello Indie Hackers π,
More often than not, we subscribe to an email service provider and never stop to check how the costs are growing as our subscriber base grows. Email costs vary widely across service providers and gets complex with all the slabs and tiering thrown into the mix.
We heard this same story from a lot of small business owners and marketers at MailSwift and that's why we built a simple yet comprehensive tool (https://mailswift.io/email-cost-calculator/) that allows you to compare costs involved in sending emails to a growing subscriber base.
All you have to do is simply choose the number of subscribers you have, frequency at which you send emails, at what rate your subscribers are growing and the tool will show you how much it costs across different service providers and many related useful metrics. The tool also helps you calculate your email marketing expenses over a period of 12 months which should help you in budgeting and making informed decisions.
We hope you find it useful π. Please do let us know your thoughts/feedback
Even though Mailchimp & co really differ from Amazon SES, especially for people who send regular newsletter to a smaller audience, I appreciate this tool.
Any ideas on how one could replicate the Mailchimp experience using an Wordpress+SES stack?
Also, I have a feeling that Amazon has worse reputation/deliverability than Mailchimp, any thoughts on that?
Thanks for the feedback @ami .
You can use MailSwift in combination with Amazon SES for having a completely hassle-free experience with zero coding or maintenance efforts.
You can use Wordpress forms for subscriber management. Post that, you can download CSV of your subscribers and send out emails via Amazon SES using MailSwift. The tool is free to download (https://mailswift.io/)
Amazon SES has good deliverability rates. We have been using it for sending out our newsletters and we have observed good delivery rates.
@praneeth thats a really good idea to choose the right provider. I always think about not just today's pricing but also tomorrow's. This logic can ve used for cloud storage too.
Btw please add your startup to my directory which is dedicated to email focused startups. Emailstartups.com
Thanks for the feedback @firatdemirel. And it is a really great idea to expand the scope to Cloud Storage π.
I am adding the tool to the directory right away
Super! Thanks for this great tools.
Even i accept the startups not the tools, i quickly added & upvoted both of your useful tools to the list. Also opened a special category for them. If you want to update the logos, just let me know. I'll also send tweets for you. ;)
Thanks for accepting the tools real quick π
I will send out MailSwift Logo over email.
Can you add SendGrid?
SendGrid has a very complex pricing and it is really difficult to normalize it to provide a comparison with other Email Service Providers. Hence, we couldn't add SendGrid.
I use mailgun for like 2 years or so.