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Buttondown is a small, elegant tool for producing newsletters
- noduerme 5y agoYikes. This is a brave position to put yourself in; kudos. Is it tough to deal with deliverability, esp w/o control over what clients send out...?
- jmduke 5y ago(I run Buttondown.) It is certainly trickier than I expected at the onset of starting the project (which is true of pretty much everything related to the email space), but not overly onerous. Most of my risk lies less in content and more in recipient, and I pour most of my efforts into subscriber validation during onboarding & activation.
- lbotos 5y agoCurious: I write a newletter to 50 friends and send through mailgun. Apple seems to be the most strict for delivery. If I write the word payment (I wrote a fiction essay with the word payment) I'll get soft blocked. Does that track with your experience? I think it'd be a really cool blog post if you had the time to just share what you see.
- rmbyrro 5y agoLooks like their AI spam filter is pretty sophisticated
- nullfish 5y agoHow does this compare to TinyLetter? (Been using them for years, no complaints)
- Kleptine 5y agoHeartily recommend it! We've been using it for a while and it's been great. The support is great too.
- D13Fd 5y agoToo bad they don't have native RSS integration, looking for something to replace Mailerlite.
- jmduke 5y agoAgreed: this is probably the one feature I'm currently most embarrassed of not having, FWIW! (You can accomplish it with Zapier at the moment, but I'm tired of having to give that as a halfway answer.)
- D13Fd 5y agoYeah, I saw that. Thanks. But I don't want to move from a unified system to having two points of configuration/change/breach/failure.
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- avinassh 5y agoIf anyone looking for an open source alternative, check out listmonk, it’s pretty slick! https://listmonk.app/ https://listmonk.app/
- klelatti 5y agolistmonk does look awesome but I couldn’t see how you could make newsletters available to read on the web too.
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- shortformblog 5y agoI’m a big fan of Justin’s work on Buttondown (though, as a newsletter creator, I tend to roll my own on things). He’s created a really unique service that a lot of folks who are sick of the Substack/Revue approach will find benefit in.
- peter_l_downs 5y agoBig fan of Buttondown as a recipient of the newsletters. Seems to work just right. Also a big fan of Justin, the author.
- katabasis 5y agoI just started using this service. My partner and I just had a baby and we wanted a way to share periodic updates with friends and family that was not dependent on social media. The simplicity of the service is a real breath of fresh air and everything seems to "just work". Recipients seem to appreciate it as well (one called it "classy"). Buttondown seems like a complete departure from the typical growth-hacked, venture-backed, over-engineered "products" in the SAAS space and I'm here for it.
- exolymph 5y agoButtondown is wonderful. I now use the newsletter service that is bundled with Ghost managed hosting, but I have fond memories of Buttondown. The quick, actually human customer support is a particular boon.
- dhr 5y agoI really like buttondown, but I stopped using it. The main issue was that mail would go into spam more often than other newsletter providers (I checked this against substack, mailchimp, revue, and tinyletter). Any reason why buttondown in particular would be more affected by this? Or maybe it's just me.
- remorses 5y agoButtondown uses AWS simple email service, maybe it’s that In my experience Revue is the worst in deliverability