[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What service are you using to send marketing...
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       Ask HN: What service are you using to send marketing emails?
        
       We're using AWS SES for transactional emails and it hasn't been a
       problem so far. But, for bulk sending of marketing emails, I've
       only found services that depend on number of contacts we have such
       as MailChimp. It is just prohibitively expensive because we send a
       marketing email for announcements of new products, usually once or
       twice a year. For this, it makes little sense to continue paying
       $600-$1000 / year for MailChimp.  Curious, is there a better
       "hacky" way to send emails? I don't need analytics and a whole
       bunch of templating features like on MailChimp. I can manage my own
       mailing list just fine in Postgres. I simply need an API and I've
       heard bad things about using AWS SES for bulk emails.  Looking for
       a low budget infrequent mass email service, I'd appreciate some
       insight.
        
       Author : systemvoltage
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2022-08-20 21:44 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | julienreszka wrote:
       | substack
        
       | ss48 wrote:
       | You can a marketing email plugin for Wordpress called FluentCRM
       | and still send with Amazon SES with FluentSMTP
       | https://fluentsmtp.com/. Annual subscription, but not as
       | expensive as MailChimp.
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       | https://fluentcrm.com/
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       | Also check out MailGun: https://www.mailgun.com/ . It might be
       | more in line with what you were looking for.
        
       | jwithington wrote:
       | http://sendy.co
       | 
       | Yours is the exact use case that it covers super well.
       | 
       | Pay a one-time ~$60 fee and runs on top of SES.
        
       | cloudking wrote:
       | We recently switched to Klaviyo https://www.klaviyo.com
       | 
       | The UX is simple and integrations seem much easier to use than
       | MailChimp, it's also a bit cheaper.
        
       | strzibny wrote:
       | I used Mailgun before and at work we have Postmark. Both good.
       | 
       | I also made the following table for myself some time ago:
       | https://nts.strzibny.name/transactional-email-providers/
        
       | butekla wrote:
       | Omnisend, the best support there is.
        
       | Rias wrote:
       | Mailcoach, https://mailcoach.app
        
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