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Sunday: I have 5000 new registered users and no way to efficiently send newsletters. I'm finishing the code to handle this today. Note to sendgrid or critsen

• petercooper 16y ago
  Wouldn't that just be something like MailChimp or Campaign Monitor? :-)
  • jhancock 16y ago
    Here's how my startup is growing (I think this applies to many): 1 - user finds my site and signs up. >> Transactional email << 2 - repeat step 1 enough times. 3 - send out newsletter. This will now start happening every 2 weeks. >> Newsletter email << Why should I be paying/configing/templating/testing/managing 2 mail services (mailchimp && sendgrid/critsend)? I don't have sophisticated newsletter tracking needs. I just need to be able to manage a list and use the same/similar API I use for transaction emails, but instead of plugging in an email address in the "to" field, I reference the name of a list stored on the sendgrid server. Doing this, I only have to sync my lists. I don't have to write code to handle sending 5000 emails, taking into account limits on how many addresses will fit into the "to" field on each API call. Both sendgrid and critsend are working on these features. Its just not there yet.