With the recent Mailchimp update, I just realized that the ability to use a custom-coded template has been removed from their free plan. Not that $15 a month is much, but I send a few newsletters weekly to not too many subscribers.
Hackers: are there any other great, simple emai
👋 I’d be remiss if I didn’t plug my own tool (https://buttondown.email), which has an emphasis on developer friendliness and smaller businesses/indies!
Some other great email tools:
What do you think of https://www.mailerlite.com ?
Thanks for this -- I am going to give this a go for a bit as their freemium version has everything I need and more =)
Let me know how it goes i'm looking into them as well.
I like MailerLite! I think (ironically, despite their name) they’re a little bit on the heavier side in terms of feature fullness, but some of the stuff they’ve built out is really smart and does a good job of showcasing how they understand their users (in particular the built-in photo editor is brilliant.)
Thanks, so many ESPs.
Hi Justin, greetings from Oregon...I was born in Seattle and spent quite a few years there as an adult, great city! Curious how Buttondown is doing for you...based on your published Stripe running cost it appears you've hit the magic $5K/month milestone?
howdy! nah, it's a little less (those costs include amortized Atlas + Sigma, two additional Stripe products), though I'm still super happy with how Buttondown's grown. And Oregon's great — I love taking weekend trips into Bend or Portland via the Amtrak, it's such a gorgeous route!
Yeah I've taken the Amtrak up from Portland to go to Mariner's games! One other thing I'm curious about, your roadmap says you're ditching SES, curious about why? I owned a hosting company for about a decade and found server maintenance was my #1 headache, much preferred outsourcing.
Mind elaborating? I'm not actually using SES for anything any more (all my email is flowing through Mailgun and Postmark!)
Oops I must have been thinking of another mail service site I was looking at...can't even remember which one! For the SaaS I'm currently building I'm planning on using Postmark and SendGrid.
😅 Happens to the best of us. And nice — SendGrid is lovely, the only reason I ended up choosing Mailgun over them was some analytics special cases that I wanted.
Hi Justin, what do you think of SendPulse?
I really like ConvertKit but for my side project I was looking for something similar but less expansive.
Ooh, I haven’t seen SendPulse before! Definitely will play around with it; at first blush it looks more like “a marketing tool that happens to handle email as a channel” rather than “an email tool that is good for marketing”, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing but is interesting compared to the ConvertKits/Drips of the world which are very much email focused.
Their pricing is really attractive!
They also did an IH interview
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I use https://www.mailerlite.com/
It's cheaper than MailChimp and has some automation tools.
Has anyone already mentioned Sendy. By far, I found this to be the cheapest.
Pros: offer a licensing fee model instead of monthly subscription.
Cons: Need AWS with SES configured to start sending emails.
https://sendy.co/demo/login
They also have subscription service called sendplus I guess. Haven't checked it out yet.
Yes, I used them years ago on another project -- I did like their controls & flexibility, but I am not looking for a self-hosted one for this -- thanks though!
zoho campaigns
Self-hosted option, but dirt-cheap when you have a lot of emails: https://sendy.co/
https://moonmail.io
Thanks for all the great replies! Just getting back into this; I'll share what I find is the best here, if anything, so others in a similar situation can find value here =)
Email Octopus, https://emailoctopus.com, is a good fit.
much cheaper and they were on IH podcast back in the day. Nice people
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