Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS SES

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Post by edward » Sun, May 23, 2021, 8:53 PM UTC

Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS SES
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Post by [deleted] » Sun, May 23, 2021, 9:03 PM UTC

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Post by stevehind » Sun, May 23, 2021, 9:03 PM UTC

For most reasonable applications that is basically a great advertisement for mailchimp, Eg if you rolled your own solution you’d only save eur 500 a year before accounting for the build and maintenance of your solution.

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, May 23, 2021, 9:04 PM UTC

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Post by andybak » Sun, May 23, 2021, 9:05 PM UTC

stevehind wrote: post #3

For most reasonable applications that is basically a great advertisement for mailchimp, Eg if you rolled your own solution you’d only save eur 500 a year before accounting for the build and maintenance of your solution.

Absolutely. We have lots of small business clients on a tight budget and this sounds like a bad deal even in that case.

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Post by manquer » Sun, May 23, 2021, 9:05 PM UTC

Shoutout to postal [1] , for outbound email delivery for apps and smaller well maintained mailing, the likes of SES/Sendgrid can be also be removed from the stack.

While email delivery is complex, and reputation matters, for smaller apps and well established mailing lists, self setup works perfectly fine.

[1] https://github.com/postalhq/postal

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Post by tqkxzugoaupvwqr » Sun, May 23, 2021, 9:13 PM UTC

500€ is 5 hours of labor. If you are skilled and everything works right away you may only spend 2 hours on the self-maintained solution which means you save 3 hours or in other words … nothing. You also have to maintain/update the system, maybe spend time teaching other people. It’s not worth the effort.

If you don’t have expert knowledge in the required tools/services, it will take much longer than 5 hours to set up the self-maintained solution. If you are unlucky “you may need the help of a professional sysadmin.” … Again, saving nothing.

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Post by offtop5 » Sun, May 23, 2021, 9:13 PM UTC

stevehind wrote: post #3

For most reasonable applications that is basically a great advertisement for mailchimp, Eg if you rolled your own solution you’d only save eur 500 a year before accounting for the build and maintenance of your solution.

I had the same reaction too.

Why would I go though all this for 500 euro a year.

Why doesn't OP deploy this as a service for 15$ a month ?

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Post by bifrost » Sun, May 23, 2021, 9:14 PM UTC

This doesn't sound like a good deal for the average business with zero experiencing managing their mail. One spam block and you're done, you'll spend at least a week dealing with that.

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Post by verdverm » Sun, May 23, 2021, 9:15 PM UTC

stevehind wrote: post #3

For most reasonable applications that is basically a great advertisement for mailchimp, Eg if you rolled your own solution you’d only save eur 500 a year before accounting for the build and maintenance of your solution.

Given the recent revelations that MailChimp is fact checking (reading) your email content and deciding whether they should not send it (i.e. the contemporary corporate censorship cause)... there may be more than cost for self hosting business applications

https://techstartups.com/2020/10/30/forget-big-tech-censorsh...