Perhaps a bit OT, but will really appreciate inputs on this.
There have been an influx of such tools, and understandably so, related to email lists. Based on various comments, I feel that the biggest item driving success around email is around email deliverability.
What are the the skills and secret sauce of companies that claim to do very reliable email deliverability, and I'm failing to understand why isn't it as simple as doing the right configurations and setting it up using Amazon SES.
Any email gurus to please throw actionable light on this?
I was surprised, coming back to newsletters, how many newsletter platforms don't support RSS-to-newsletter. I've hacked a work-around that I'm not happy with, but I look forward to digging into this.
Listmonk is a seriously awesome piece of software!
Have used it to run multiple newsletters, over various version upgrades (almost all stress free), and even written some custom integrations with the API.
This is cool—happy to see more stuff like this. I like the idea of creating a private RSS feed with a CMS and having it ship out to a service like this automagically.
This is great and very happy to see it. Mailchimp is annoyingly expensive for what it is.
With that said the sending of the emails is the easy part. Deliverability is hard.
Sending via SES is pretty likely to go straight to spam folders or worse. Granted if it’s 100% opt-in and you have the kind of audience that will hunt for the email and mark it as valid you’ll probably improve and be ok long term but it’s something to think about.
Very cool! We built something similar but is not self hosted: https://pico.sh/feeds
How do you handle Reddit feeds? We found those to be tricky to get right because it seems like Reddit doesn’t want you to use rss
Just what I was looking for. Thanks!
I prefer it the other way around: https://kill-the-newsletter.com/