Does anyone know of a minimal alternative to Mailchimp?
TinyLetter was the best solution, but it was pretty much bought out by Mailchimp and shut down. Doesn't seem to work anymore.
I don't really need templates or large volume. We just have a mailing list of around 800 folks (and growing) that needs to get maybe 5-6 newsletters a year.
Until now, we've just used our own mail servers but I'm wanting to find a better solution!
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I love Revue, its very simple and their templates are nicely designed.
800 subscribers would cost you about 10$ p/month
https://www.getrevue.co/
Doesn't look bad at all, I'm seriously considering this one. Thanks!
Sendinblue?
https://smaily.com
Nice and easy to use alternative to MailChimp. Great support, if needed, a lot cheaper and with a ton of integrations.
Awesome pick. Thanks for this - might actually be my actual solution!
https://www.mailerlite.com/ 100%, they seem to have the best deliverability if their reports are right.
Sending just plain text emails is easy. I just did one and got 52% open rates.
Amazon SES?
I'm thinking of sendy.co, but we decided to roll our own app with amazon SES
I've been looking at just this (building a simple sender via SES) and that's what I might end up doing. I'll check out Sendy, though, thanks!
Is this because Mailchimp is down right now? lol.
Ha, I’m just doing everything I can to avoid using Mailchimp. Really can’t stand it.
Honestly, MC is somehow killing any spark in me to do the newsletters. Every time I open their app it adds so much overhead that I often just close it
Right? I used to really like Mailchimp, but in the past few years it's just gotten terrible.
Hi I just got started on mailchimp, should I turn back now? What do you not like about it / what should I be watching out for? 👀
You should be served fine on MC. It does what it needs to do. I just don't like that it's trying to become some sort of Hubspot. Getting bloated and adding features I don't need, plus I think the templates are recognizable and ineffective. That's just my opinion, though!
Already have a Gmail address? You could definitely rely on it to send your newsletter pretty easily with Mailmeteor.com.
https://buttondown.email/
Looks very nice and clean, however at $29/mo that's a bit steep since I won't even use it every month.
Maybe check out emailoctopus.com by @jonathanbull and @td_evans
Looks interesting, and clean! However it's probably overkill for what my use case would be, which is a few unscheduled newsletters a year.
You can just use the simple plain text emails or paste in your HTML. At 800 contacts, it'd be totally free.
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