What's the Easiest way to start a newsletter?
Hello everyone
I'm launching a little side project where I curate a few software engineering links. I've seen a lot of advice saying to stick in a newsletter to help gather an audience.
I could go-ahead and stick together a Mailchimp newsletter. But my experience with them has been crazy lately. I'm curious what newsletter services you use.
I generally want something easy to set up, lots of templates to select from.
Thanks a lot😊
Tools like Substack or Revue (which I use) are as easy as it can get. But tech is easy, building and growing an audience is the hard part.
Agree. I run a substack newsletter and its really easy to write and publish.
The hard part is getting an audience willing to subscribe and open your emails.
Yes, the tech for starting and running a newsletter is even simpler than blogs. But building an audience is orders of magnitude harder.
EmailOctopus is a really easy-to-use tool (disclaimer: I work there!). It was built by fellow Indie Hackers and is completely free for your first 2,500 subscribers.
We wrote a post on getting started with a newsletter specifically: https://blog.emailoctopus.com/how-to-create-your-first-email-newsletter/
Hope it helps!
If your newsletter is mainly about pulling together links from various sources like RSS, Twitter, Reddit etc. I can recommend Mailbrew.
I did the same for a newsletter about BigQuery which I started the other day.
Tip: if you want to add some filtering/curation to your RSS sources you can try out my own free service crssnt.