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my (poor) understanding of email SaaS was that staying off blacklists is the value add, not the server code. is that wrong?
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I'm still testing it and it looks very solid. After going through the cod for a few hours, I'm pleasantly surprised. One money saving feature: you can setup SES and Sparkpost, for instance, and configure it to send more emails from Sparkpost than through SES, that way you can save money using free 100k emails/month plan from Sparkpost.
I wish I found that before sendy
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I use Mailwizz. It lacks the polish of MailChimp, but works well. It is multi-tenant and you can have sub-accounts with their quotas. You can even use it to roll your own SaaS with the included user management and billing features.
Mailwizz is active developed and the UI is going to change at some point too ;)
I believe you should invest in marketing, it's really hard to find about your product in the first place. All your competitors are weak, but they do seem to do better marketing.
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I wasn't clear. I mean that Mailwizz was built around a solid PHP framework [1], while Sendy is pure PHP. [1] http://www.yiiframework.com/
So what's the value add here? As a user, how does the framework matter?
If it's built on a solid framework, and you study the framework, you'll know where to look when you want to change a model, a controller, so on.
HN, thanks for this thread. I was looking for a self-hosted email newsletter solution for ages, but couldn't really find good ones. The often claimed value proposition of deliverabiliy of all the big names is a myth IMHO, at least in Germany. All the big brand names ALWAYS get put into my spam folder (GMX). Deliverability is more than Gmail lets it pass . I used a Wordpress Plugin called MyMail for a while, but updat…
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Mailgun restricts features unless you pay more money, which increases as your plan increases. I prefer SendGrid's model. They're just different pricing models.
No way, it's the other way around. Mailgun is free or pay per email, no restrictions. Sendgrid has convoluted plans and features.
From Github ( https://github.com/andris9/mailtrain ): > Alpha-grade software. Might or might not work as expected. Awful code base, needs refactoring. No tests. No documentation.
Sounds like most successful applications. Fills a need. Everything else sucks.
Another alternative: SendGrid recently released a much less expensive product [1] which shares most features with MailChimp. Contact storage costs $20 per month for a typical list of 20,000 subscribers (for comparison, storing the same number of contacts at MailChimp would be $150/mo). We handle deliverability issues ourselves, so you won't have to maintain the reputation of a self-hosted solution. If you have any qu…
We have maybe ten different email templates, in 7 different language. Mandrill makes that sort of easy, but their reason decision to require a Mailchimp account (which we don't need) has made us look for alternatives. We even considered building something in-house, but it seems like something someone else would already have done.