How do you handle early signups and waiting lists?
I've recently launched my first pre-beta landing page (https://getexporteur.com) and was wondering:
How do other indie hackers implement beta waiting lists and "notify me when you launch" mailing lists?
The obvious way seemed to be letting people sign up via a MailChimp "newsletter", but that has about 100x the features I need and is complicated to setup. Also, the second you exceed their free tier subscriber limit you're paying a good chunck of cash each month without even delivering eMails, just for having subscribers.
With our landing page, we settled on a horrible Python script that manages signups & eMail verifications for us, but I was wondering if other Indie Hackers knew of better tooling to solve this problem.
Hey Sven,
I've used different techniques over the past few years.
one of them indeed was integrating mailchimp and adding the person to the list.
An other alternative i used was sendgrid, which als allows for adding users to a list.
Both worked well and were free for a good portion of users.
If you expect a lot of traffic and don't want to go for either of those, you can always resort to some custom made solution.
Another (free) example could be a Firebase list + smtp server (or use something like mailjet)