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Show HN: Dittofeed – 1-Click deploy, self-host Mailchimp alternative

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Re: Show HN: Dittofeed – 1-Click deploy, self-host Mailchimp alternative

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Post by rexreed »

slig wrote: post #3
capableweb wrote: post #2

The absolute worst with hosting your own email lists / transactional emails is that you need to be very up to date on the status of your IPs and domains in various blocklists, and it's very easy to get blocked from them. I don't see anything mentioned about this, nor other similar issues, either on the website or in the GitHub repository. Are you offering some functionality that help people manage this, or how do you…

Looks like they currently support sending emails through SendGrid https://docs.dittofeed.com/integrations/channels/sendgrid

Sendgrid's deliverability and reliability is starting to tank. Looking to get off Sendgrid myself.

Re: Show HN: Dittofeed – 1-Click deploy, self-host Mailchimp alternative

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Post by maxthegeek1 »

capableweb wrote: post #8
maxthegeek1 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello! We're not an email service provider ourselves (where one would normally configure email domain/ip settings), but we allow users integrate their own ESP accounts. We currently support sendgrid, and in the near term future we plan to support AWS SES.

I see! I understand you're not a email service provider, but "self-hosted" gave me the impression you actually handle sending the emails (via SMTP or whatever) as well as the management around the lists, not just outsourcing the email sending part to a hosted 3rd party. Seems I was mistaken :)

We plan to support plain SMTP as well, so that users can be self hosted end to end if they want.

Re: Show HN: Dittofeed – 1-Click deploy, self-host Mailchimp alternative

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Post by maxthegeek1 »

rexreed wrote: post #11
slig wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like they currently support sending emails through SendGrid https://docs.dittofeed.com/integrations/channels/sendgrid

Sendgrid's deliverability and reliability is starting to tank. Looking to get off Sendgrid myself.

What alternatives are you looking at?

Re: Show HN: Dittofeed – 1-Click deploy, self-host Mailchimp alternative

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Post by concordance »

maxthegeek1 wrote: post #13
rexreed wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sendgrid's deliverability and reliability is starting to tank. Looking to get off Sendgrid myself.

What alternatives are you looking at?

Support for Resend (https://resend.com/) would be appreciated!

Re: Show HN: Dittofeed – 1-Click deploy, self-host Mailchimp alternative

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Post by nathancahill »

rexreed wrote: post #11
slig wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like they currently support sending emails through SendGrid https://docs.dittofeed.com/integrations/channels/sendgrid

Sendgrid's deliverability and reliability is starting to tank. Looking to get off Sendgrid myself.

It's been slowly tanking for a decade at least.

Re: Show HN: Dittofeed – 1-Click deploy, self-host Mailchimp alternative

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Post by mikeshi42 »

This is super awesome to see open source - I wonder if there's some value in email flows for self-hosted software as well.

I'm thinking if someone self-hosts a complex OSS app like Dittofeed (or even HyperDX ;) ) - would it be beneficial to allow admins to enable email onboarding flows like they get in the SaaS side of things, so end-users can be drip-fed product docs appropriately (and even customize it themselves if they're a big enough enterprise)? This can probably help onboarding/adoption internally if done well.

Either way - I'm really excited to try this out on our cloud side of things to help our new users learn our platform faster :)

Re: Show HN: Dittofeed – 1-Click deploy, self-host Mailchimp alternative

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Post by etse »

Git-versioned marketing templates seem unfriendly to presumably a marketing user.

That said, I’ve been integrating and supporting similar platforms over the past several years, and the feature set and maturity is low for the cost of these services. If Dittofeed puts the pressure on the market, that’s fantastic.

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