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Introducing Canvas – a new way to build emails
- sudonim 12y agoKudos to Campaign Monitor. This is an ambitious project in that it's an opinionated, reductionist approach to building newsletters. The UX shown in the video is awesome.
- davegreiner 12y agoI can't tell you how happy it makes me to read that comment. It's exactly what we were shooting for, so thanks.
- imkevinxu 12y agoThis looks amazing, much better than the current Mailchimp newsletter builder. Looking forward to trying it out!
- yRetsyM 12y agoAfter having a play with the product I am very impressed. Some very smooth UX touches and in Chrome on Windows everything runs very smoothly. Simple but very effective. Well done to the team at Campaign Monitor!
- xauronx 12y agoLooks awesome! Made me start trying to think of reasons to send out a newsletter. So far, no luck, but maybe I'll think of something. :)
- DigitalSea 12y agoI've been using Campaign Monitor since 2007 and I am happy to see they're still out on top. They've consistently had a great product right from the start and Canvas is another massive step in the right direction for the future of email. I think it's game on again with Mailchimp. I used Canvas this morning and it is leaps and bounds better than anything else out there (especially the Mailchimp builder which is its closest competitor). You can see a lot of hard work and effort has gone into this builder, really nice work.
- jamesrom 12y agoAll of these comments look so gamed.
- sleepyhead 12y agoYeah quite surprising to see positive comments on HN, right? While I haven't tried this new editor from Campaign Monitor I can certainly understand why people are happy with their service. Their old content editor was really good and this seems like an improvement.
- apu 12y agoI can't tell if you understand parent's comment and are playing along or genuinely missed the point...
- sleepyhead 12y agoI can't tell if you understand my comment and are playing along or genuinely missed the point...
- ktsmith 12y agoI agree they look that way until you start looking at the accounts posting them. That being said a lot of people send newsletters, and a lot of people use MailChimp (we do). MailChimp has been releasing a lot of UI changes lately, including a new editor that tries to accomplish what is shown in the Canvas video, albeit not very well.
- imaginenore 12y agoHaha. Look at all these obviously paid comments.
- davegreiner 12y agoI only wish we had of thought of that ;) No paid comments here, we didn't submit the news either. Just happy customers.
- OutThisLife 12y agoKind of wish HN had a downvote for these.
- sleepyhead 12y agoIt does. You just don't have enough karma for it.
- sleepyhead 12y agoSeriously guys, downvote for pointing out that HN has downvotes for comments and that the user obviously doesn't have enough karma for it (501). Stay classy HN.
- sleepyhead 12y agoHaha. Look at that obviously competitor comment.
- matchu 12y agoThe ones I see all come from well-established accounts with decent karma. Could be that they were intentionally building up those accounts over time in order to sell out, but I'm skeptical.
- mrmch 12y agoNice! As another company in email, I know how difficult this can be to build. We'll have something like this at sendwithus.com soon. Kudos to the CampaignMonitor team :)
- mplewis 12y agoWow, nice to see some competition in the email newsletter space. How does the rest of Campaign Monitor compare to MailChimp?
- gumby 12y agoDoes it also include a plaintext alternative? Mail I receive without a plaintext alternative goes straight into the spam bin unread. Saves a lot of time!
- sleepyhead 12y agoThat would be unrelated to this feature which is for designing the HTML and inserting content. But yeah I am pretty sure CM sends multipart email with plain text as well. The plain text is then generated from the content in the HTML.
- personlurking 12y agoAs a new MC user, it's easy to see this looks better, though a free Basic would go a long way for me at this moment. Having eyes ≠ gamed comments ;)