Buttondown
A small, elegant tool for producing newsletters.
Buttondown is the best way to start and run your newsletter
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Buttondown is praised for its simplicity, clean interface, and fair pricing, making it a preferred choice over more complex platforms like MailChimp. Users appreciate its markdown support, responsive customer service, and continuous development by its creator, Justin. The tool is described as uncluttered and effective, with features like subscriber management and the ability to use personal domains. It is particularly favored by tech users for its programmable API and extensive tooling options, offering a balance between functionality and ease of use.
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Getting back to the essentials of running newsletters – a breath of fresh air in the corporate jungle.
Simple to use. MailChimp has become too bloated
Buttondown has been an amazing experience for me. The service is constantly being improved and customer service is the best. My newsletter with Buttondown has grown from a fairly small list to over 15,000 subscribers, and it hasn't broken a sweat yet.
This newsletter solution is uncluttered and works! I've used it for over a year now, writing in markdown and pushing it out to my readership. Should you need it, support is kind, quick, and always willing to help.
Awesome and simple app that makes it easy to send out emails to your list. I love that fact that it is being actively developed. I've used MailChimp, then TinyLetter, but one is far too kitchen-sink, and the other is too bare bones. Buttondown is my goldilocks... just right!
Buttondown is the essential newsletter tool for people in tech, whether you want a programable API or (like me) just want to work in Markdown to keep the content reusable and make use of other extensive tooling options. Extremely responsive support, terrific options, extremely useable free tier. I've been using it for 3yrs (168 issues!) and I'm very happy.
Buttondown is a quick-to-use markdown-first Newsletter provider that's perfect for my personal newsletter. Since Justin works on it fulltime, there are new features being released constantly and the care / service he provides is outstanding!
This works great for my personal newsletter. I can manage subscribers and drafts easily. My favorite features:
- I can opt-out of analytics / tracking, which feels incongruent with my goals of keeping my letter personal.
- I can use my personal domain to send emails, in a way helps with prevention of my email getting marked as spam.
What I love about Buttondown
- I can write my emails in Markdown like i'm used to
- The UI is simple, and I can quickly find what I need
- The developer/owner is SUPER responsive to bug reports etc via their Discord
- My favorite feature: I've got CATEGORIES that people can sign up to, embedded and styled on my on site caseywatts.com/newsletter