I launched a side project. An email collector for MVP landings.
Most of my ideas doesn't generate that much of traffic. It's a pain to see that you just got 10 emails in your Mailchimp list and that some of those emails were lost because of the opt-in.
So I created a generic backend for HTML landings. So I don't have use Mailchimp or manage a backend each time I am validating something.
I built it using a basic LAMP stack and Laravel. It took me a few days to set it up. The premium plan is available, but I don't accept payments yet. I don't know yet if this would be useful for somebody else. I will give the premium plan whoever is coming from IH for free.
I hope this post doesn't come as spam and can help others building its MVPs. I accept for sure your feedback.
Domingo
MailChimp also allows opting in without the verification step. So it seems all popular mail-list software have your feature built-in.
Did you do some validation before pursuing this idea?
Yes, I did some validation, but maybe not enough. I've also found that MailerLite offers a better solution. You can check this post in reddt I made for validation:
https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/6vabxf/tool_to_collect_emails_and_only_emails/
Not sure about MailChimp, but I use ConvertKit and that also allows you to accept email signups without a double opt-in. Maybe scour the internet to see if there are MailChimp users in various places complaining about this problem. If so, try rewriting your landing page's copy to appeal directly to these MailChimp users, then post the link in these discussions.
Hmm - it does sound like a really small niche.. I personally used MailerLite because they don't force opt-ins. I actually think only Mailchimp does that. Setting up a form is also super easy with most e-mail marketing SaaS's because they don't require any backend work at all, you often get an html form that you just copy/paste and then you can apply your own design since the only thing that needs to work is the POST url and the name of the fields.
It looks like MailerLite solves the same problem. I made the mistake of not doing enough research. At least I have a service coded for myself :)