MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill

Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by benmorris on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:31PM (#15494098)

This looks more like a pitch for MailWizz, but I've found that sendy works well for me.

http://sendy.co

If you are comfortable setting up your own templates it does a great job sending and handling unsubscribes/statistics. It isn't simply hooked into the SES SMTP , it fully utilizes the AWS API. Sendy iteself has a simple api to add users to lists and do other common things. I've used it for years.

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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by hill_smith on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:55PM (#15495317)

+0.5 for Sendy. I've been using it for http://www.tittietime.com quite successfully for 2+ years now.

There have been a couple of bugs that caused me to have to dig into the source code - which as others have stated, is a mess. Though I suspect its been purposely obfuscated to prevent pirating.

If you ever wonder what's going on in functions.php, I've unwound it a bit - you can see its making a phone home:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/cb21dfc35e1d4b74e136ebc694...

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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by nkozyra on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @06:04PM (#15495360)

Holy God in heaven that obfuscation filled me with dread.

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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by hill_smith on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @06:05PM (#15495366)

I think he must have a deployment script that generates all the database connection calls at the top of every file when he releases a new version. No one in their right mind would write code like that.

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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by homero on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:08PM (#15496606)

They also leave a phpinfo() publicly available which I had to block

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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by desheikh on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @09:58PM (#15496352)

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.

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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by mongodude on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:03PM (#15494920)

Sendy's templating engine is a mess, best that worked for me is to design the template in Mail chimp, export it as HTML (Mail chimp provide this as free of cost) and then, use sendy for sending mails.

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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by chiefalchemist on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @06:13PM (#15495415)

Have you looked at ZURB Foundation for eMail?

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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by slig on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @04:18PM (#15494533)

I tried a year ago. Nice interface, worked fine, but the source code was a mess.

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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by j_s on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:17PM (#15495033)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9154021

>jmhobbs: The Sendy codebase is horrifying.

We use Sendy at work, 40k+ sends weekly. It saves us boat loads of money since moving from Mailchimp.

We've forked it, patched it, and use it internally, but only because it's cheaper than writing our own, for now.

I'm not telling you not to buy it, I'm telling you that the guts are shitty and you should know that before you fork over cash

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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by godzillabrennus on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:55PM (#15494321)

I’ve used Sendy for years and love it.

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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by pavlakoos on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @04:24AM (#15497657)

+1 for Sendy. Send was lacking segmentation for many years, but they added this feature 2 months ago and now it is very good.

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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by bootcat on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:56PM (#15496784)

godsend !!

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