I've been looking into email services for a landing page I'm building for Introspekt.
MailChimp seems fine since their website offers up to 2,000 subscribers in the free tier. I figure that if I have 2,000+ people interested in Introspekt then paying more will be fine.
I've also looked into Amazon SES which is quite nice. Really cheap but requires quite a bit of effort.
I've already written the code for the landing page and wouldn't mind spending some time on AWS since it seems interesting and definitely useful.
I'm quite hesitant to make that time commitment now since the semester starts in a week. If you've used Amazon SES, how much effort did it take? I've used Azure before, so I am familiar with cloud.
What do you use for capturing emails on your landing pages? I'm looking for something in code and cost-effective. Code, mostly because it's more cost-effective and I enjoy writing code (ah, that great feeling of something working after spending 30 minutes hating yourself 😉).
If you're just starting out, you're fine going with Mailchimp. In the beginning there's very few benefits with sending out with Amazon SES (which would offer greater flexibility/control and lower costs).
Using SES to start is going to incur additional time costs that likely won't be worth it.
Hmm, you're right, I don't think I can afford the time commitment now, as @SnapperFish mentioned I can always switch to Amazon SES later. Besides 2,000 contacts is quite large and I can't be sure that I would breach that in the first place.
I'm using MailChimp, just because it was the easiest to get started with. I figure if it starts getting to expensive then I can reaccess and migrate the list elsewhere