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I've seen cases where spammers abuse sign-up forms to generate spam (by using the name field for their content). Without server side validation it would be trivial for a malicious user to accomplish this.

Shameless plug - I run a hosted alternative to Sendy https://www.mailblast.io/


In Canada, I've switched over to https://simpletax.ca. It's free, (supported by donations), and works well even for more complicated filings.


There are tons of hosted solutions for Amazon SES too, if your'e not interested in setting up your own solution.

Shameless plug: I run https://mailblast.io, a hosted email marketing solution powered by Amazon SES.


I've done Chefs Plate and Good Food here in Toronto, and while they are great, for people like me living in the city, the delivery is not the most convenient aspect.

My local Supermarket chain, could just put up a rack with meal kits, and destroy most of their market.


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.


Ideas: since you are competing on the price. add a graph showing emails/payment growing with you and mail-chimp/other strong competition side by side. next to it say "lowers is,of course, better." then you have to attack the main objection(IMHO), lower delivery rate. not sure how but you need to think about the "no one ever got fired for chosing IBM" affect and counter it. you can say something reassuring about SES. or have a quote from a user or two.


dont be ashamed!

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


Haha, thanks. I've been growing pretty well organically, but still feel a little odd pitching my service online.

I should just set up a referral program myself and let others do it for me :p


This looks like a great value. We were considering using Campaign.js, but actually getting it up and running on a server to fire out campaigns seemed like a pain (as does using sendy). Combining the affordability of SES with some symbolance of the UX of mailchimp seems like a killer value proposition.


Thanks! I'm actively working on enhancing the feature set to match what MailChimp etc provide.

If you try it out and find something you need missing, drop me a line and I'll see what I can do!


This looks great. The biggest pain we had with MailChimp was dealing with unsubscribes from our website (i.e. anything other than an unsubscribe link in the email). How does your API handle unsubscribes? Do you simply upload a complete list of users each time and those not in the file are removed?


From what I understand you need an API endpoint to unsubscribe users from your list.

Try out the service and drop me a line, I'm sure I can accommodate your use case :)


http://simplerses.com - A hosted email solution and newsletter delivery tool powered by Amazon SES. Been working on it as a side project for a while. Trying to put more time over the weekends now that I have a few paying customers.


Fedex already provides this service fedex.com/office


Some of the guys at the office here in Singapore felt the aftershock, but most people didn't notice.


Rather than themes with a few color changes, what would be neater would be themes which actually modified the default style of bootstrap. As a developer using bootstrap and without any design skills, that would be far more helpful.

At least for me, none of the addons seem to add anything compelling to the default bootstrap for me to use it.


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