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Show HN: I made an open source Mailchimp RSS-to-Email alternative

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Show HN: Mido – Open Source Microsoft Media Creation Tool

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Show HN: Mido – The Secure Microsoft Windows Downloader

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elliotkillick
·2년 전·discuss
How did you justify paying $6,000/year for a dedicated IP address? SES will provide you with the same thing for $25/month (https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/#Amazon_SES_Pricing). I noticed your statistics didn't include SES. To me, mystery surrounding reliable email deliverability is primarily a tactic some vendors use to entice non-technical people into relying on their proprietary email marketing solution.
elliotkillick
·2년 전·discuss
Email deliverability is no secret. Just send an email to one of many email deliverability testers to find out the spammyness of your email: https://www.mail-tester.com

The sender IP address is a large component in determining email spammyness. This is why SES allows you to pay extra for a dedicated IP address (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/dedicated-ip.html). However, it's not something you will likely need unless you send in large volumes.
elliotkillick
·2년 전·discuss
Thanks! In my personal experience, I've had success delivering to the inboxes of Gmail, Outlook, and Zoho Mail with SES. However, my newsletter is entirely opt-in on my website. When I signed up for SES, there was a human review as to what I would be sending. So, I think Amazon understands spam is an issue, too.

Listmonk supports many email providers though, if your needs outgrow SES.
elliotkillick
·2년 전·discuss
Oh, nice! I recall Reddit did support RSS at one point, I didn't realize they limited it. rss2newsletter is only ~300 lines of code right now and I'd prefer to keep it more on the minimal side of things. But, that's definitely a cool feature to have.
elliotkillick
·2년 전·discuss
For sure, converting feeds into emails in that direction is something I've seen as a sticking point for a lot of projects. I'm glad I could fill that gap for you.
elliotkillick
·2년 전·discuss
My pleasure!
elliotkillick
·2년 전·discuss
Hey, this looks fantastic! I really appreciate minimal software that does what it sets out do well without bloat. I noticed that your GitHub README states "Collect Emails: Create your simple mailing list". It just so happens that I just released a tool for completing the next piece in the puzzle by taking those email addresses and automatically sending a notification of your new articles to them in a newsletter (assuming Nucelo supports RSS). Check it out at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40898313 if you think it can be of help to you.
elliotkillick
·3년 전·discuss
This looks like an interesting take on email marketing. I use an open source solution called Listmonk (w/ Amazon SES) for my emailing needs. How does this project compare?