This is owlsend (owlsend.com) re-branded after causing confusion with sendowl (sendowl.com). <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9068154" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9068154</a><p>I'm glad to see they fixed their logo so it isn't a blue owl.<p>I'm disappointed to see that they still haven't made it more clear that the $29 / month is a flat rate to use their interface and the end user still pays $1 / 10,000 emails to SES. If you send a weekly email (4/month) to 10,000 subscribers, you pay $29 + $4 = $33. If you send a daily (30 / month) email to 10,000 subscribers you'll pay $29 + $30 = $59. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9070921" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9070921</a>
I saw Mail Chimp at $200 a month for 10,000 and thought.. really? However, when I look at Mail Chimp it seems to be $75.<p>So: 10K subscribers, Monthly charge, Unlimited sendlimit<p>Mail Chimp - $75 - <a href="http://mailchimp.com/pricing/all/" rel="nofollow">http://mailchimp.com/pricing/all/</a><p>SendGlide - $29 - <a href="http://www.sendglide.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sendglide.com/</a><p>Still favourable for you but significantly different. I appreciate that pricing is always complicated. Am I missing something?
Maybe I'm an old fart but I don't like fancy emails because they never display right. Seems like simpler is better for email. Keep it short and to the point.<p>Are people finding that the fancy emails convert better?
Yikes, I wouldn't want to compete on price. I personally believe it's the features beyond MailChimp where the action is. Let MailChimp have the low-end. It's going to be really hard to fight them for crumbs at the table.
I'm sending out a newsletter every now and then. A simple text newsletter that goes out to about 50,000 subscribers. I send it via a PHP script I wrote myself. It can do a/b tests, bounce- and optout-handling. Every time I see commercial offerings like this one, I wonder: Would I gain anything by using them? They seem pretty expensive to me.<p>My selfmade solution also can do HTML mailings, but I never was able to measure any benefit of styled newsletters over text. So I usually use just text.
I have a small email marketing app, that can integrate text as well as html. (based on Asp.Net MVC and WebApi)<p>It also allows conditionals (Mustache like syntax) and multiple languages in one "Send"... Haven't bootstrapped it though, it's for personal use and because i have multiple clients in french, english and dutch...<p>Most of the time, i use it to send the "launch" letter for a new website, with the mailing list that i collected from their landing page.<p>it just makes my life easier :)
We use to use <a href="http://sendy.co/" rel="nofollow">http://sendy.co/</a> which is a self hosted solution, but doesn't really offer anything in the way of templates and lacks some features. We ultimately left as we now use Intercom but I'd be interested in seeing how this service evolves.
Might want to set up redirects, canonical or robots.txt on <a href="http://www.owlsend.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.owlsend.com/</a> as right now you're double serving your content to Google and is not optimal from an SEO standpoint, let alone confusing for customers.
Having used Constant Contact for a while now I'm kind of biased towards them but I'm always looking at new ways and services for doing things. What is the biggest difference between SendGlide and them/what do you have that they don't?
I think there is a pretty small market for small businesses who want to use a service like this, but want to / are capable of setting up their own Amazon SES setup.<p>The small business market is already hard since budgets are small and support needs are high.
Was a thread about this a couple of days ago also: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9068154" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9068154</a> . Looks like they changed their name since then.