Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by davekiss » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 4:01 PM UTC

Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy
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Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by rbinv » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 5:38 PM UTC

This is ridiculous. You don't only pay MailChimp for the software, you pay for their deliverability.

Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by davekiss » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 5:44 PM UTC

rbinv wrote: post #2

This is ridiculous. You don't only pay MailChimp for the software, you pay for their deliverability.

Sendy uses Amazon SES as the delivery service, not a PHP installation. Highly deliverable and much more cost effective.

Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by bhouston » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 5:46 PM UTC

I switched away from MailChimp to Sendy and it is way cheaper. MailChimp is stupidly expensive, annoyingly so, and it doesn't add much value over Sendy.

Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by Someone1234 » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 5:50 PM UTC

Sending directly from a Digital Ocean VPS? Yeah good luck with that bounce rate.

I use SendGrid free on Azure because Azure VPS too have an extremely high bounce rate. Setting up an SMTP server isn't exactly hard or expensive (regardless of if you're integrating mailing lists or not), it is the good rep' IP address and making it "someone else's problem" to deal with a lot of email related problems (poor reputation, blacklists, random host decides to block you, etc) that you're paying for.

Sendgrid, Mailchimp, and so on primarily exist so you can just hit send and then that's as deep as your involvement goes as far as emails.

Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by pdeuchler » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 5:50 PM UTC

shameless plug

Or you could just use the free Sendgrid plan for up to 12k emails a month :)

Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by _neil » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 5:51 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #5

Sending directly from a Digital Ocean VPS? Yeah good luck with that bounce rate. I use SendGrid free on Azure because Azure VPS too have an extremely high bounce rate. Setting up an SMTP server isn't exactly hard or expensive (regardless of if you're integrating mailing lists or not), it is the good rep' IP address and making it "someone else's problem" to deal with a lot of email related problems (poor reputation, b…

It's using Amazon SES for delivery.

Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by _neil » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 5:53 PM UTC

bhouston wrote: post #4

I switched away from MailChimp to Sendy and it is way cheaper. MailChimp is stupidly expensive, annoyingly so, and it doesn't add much value over Sendy.

That's a bit over the top. Mail chimp is hugely valuable if you are in their target user base. And for non-technical clients, mail chimp is (imo) a massive step up from other mailing list providers.

Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by desheikh » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 5:59 PM UTC

shameless plug

I built SimplerSES for the same reason - a cheaper alternative to MailChimp using AWS SES. It's built as a hosted service so theres no server costs, and you only pay for the emails you send out.

Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by raphar » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 6:04 PM UTC

desheikh wrote: post #9

shameless plug I built SimplerSES for the same reason - a cheaper alternative to MailChimp using AWS SES. It's built as a hosted service so theres no server costs, and you only pay for the emails you send out.

dont be ashamed!

All the OP links have affiliates codes. (namecheap, digital ocean, sendy).