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Buttondown mentions (24)

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  Buttondown — Newsletter service. Up to 100 subscribers free. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?

  Self-employed, running https://buttondown.email as a solo founder. (My day generally looks like — 30% engineering, 40% onboarding + support, 10% marketing, 20% operations.) It was a profitable nights-and-weekends project from 2017—2022; took it full-time in 2022. I think the thing that I would say about self-employment is that people understate the day-to-day flexibility and overstate the month-to-month... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: Advice for turning my side project into a real business

  I did this. I grew my project, Buttondown [https://buttondown.email] from high three figures to low five figures while doing it as a nights-and-weekends thing at Stripe and then quit to work on it full time. It was a great decision and I'm happy I did it! (I also did it, frankly, with significant runway in the bank if I needed it, and no dependents besides my wife so the tail risk of "this goes to zero and/or I... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Exposed RSS

  You can do something similar with Buttondown: https://buttondown.email//rss (for example, https://buttondown.email/j2kun/rss). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: What perfect software did you discover of recent?

  This allowed me to add a subscription page on my statically hosted blog. And the minimalistic nature of the service made it perfect. [1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ajinkyamankar.surebetarbitragecalculator [2]: https://obsidian.md [3]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.faultexception.reader [4]: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview [5]:... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

EmailOctopus mentions (11)

• free-for.dev

  EmailOctopus - Up to 2,500 subscribers and 10,000 emails per month free. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• What service are people using for their newsletters?

  I use Mailgun myself, but https://emailoctopus.com might be worth a look. Like Sendy they also use Amazon SES, so should be pretty cheap. And then you wouldn't have to deal with hosting it yourself, unlike Sendy. They say they have a developer API so maybe you can get metrics from that. Both Sendy and Email Octopus have list segmentation which should do the job for hiding sponsors; not sure if either of them... Source: over 2 years ago

• UK to overhaul privacy rules in post-Brexit departure from GDPR

  Https://emailoctopus.com/ is my current provider and they say they use EU data centers should I should be good. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• This SaaS helped me grow my business from 1k to 10k revenue per month.

  Https://emailoctopus.com EmailOctopus is an email marketing tool offering a rich set of email marketing templates allow users to create campaigns which are responsive to any device, in a matter of minutes. Users have the ability to build drip email sequences, import contacts, integrate with forms, and generate customized reports. With segmentation, you can create highly targeted email campaigns based on the... Source: almost 3 years ago

• Building a $0 startup using nextjs and firebase

  - **Emails** - There are two types of emails; **transactional** - reset passwords, welcome email, ... So on and **broadcasting** - newsletters, announcements, deals, product updates. I use [Postmark](https://postmarkapp.com/) for all of my emails, [Aurelio](https://aureliocbt.com) also has a [newsletter](https://aureliocbt.com/newsletter) for which I use [Emailoctopus](https://emailoctopus.com). Source: almost 3 years ago