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This is a cliché but honest answer — I was using a similar tool and thought to myself “man, I could make something better than this.” I have this impulse a lot
by jmduke 9y ago
This is a cliché but honest answer — I was using a similar tool and thought to myself “man, I could make something better than this.” I have this impulse a lot, and usually I stop myself from actually following through (there is always so much complication hiding below the surface!) but I kept coming back to it.
Eventually, I set a deadline for myself; I said if, six months later, I couldn’t scratch the itch to make something better (or at least find something better) than what I was using, then I’d start working on it.
The six months passed, and so it was born:
https://buttondown.email https://buttondown.email
- tixocloud 9y agoThanks for sharing. I'm going to try it out as I do need a quick way to get a newsletter going.
- quickthrower2 9y agoHeads up there are a couple of broken images on the home page on mobile.
- jmduke 9y agoWould you mind sending me a screenshot at justin [at] buttondown [dot] email? All the icons are emoji, so I'm guessing there's some weird unicode issue.
- quickthrower2 9y agoThe image for the two captions below shows as a box with an X in it. * A nice, pretty subscription page. (There's also an embeddable widget and a REST endpoint, if you'd prefer that.) * Newsletters are all automatically published to an RSS/ATOM feed. On Chrome/Android.
- olkid 9y ago"Basic email analytics: opens" I'm curious. Have you figured out an accurate method? I've seen various flawed attempts (like an embedded image). Nice and clean website.