Mailchimp to Sendy: Cutting Email Costs

Re:Mailchimp to Sendy: Cutting Email Costs by vzhou842 on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @12:14PM (#20345672)

It’s definitely much more manageable for a business, but as one person running a small hobby project, paying hundreds per month is nowhere near worth it. Mailchimp is probably (understandably) focusing on enterprise customers that can pay much more and for whom convenience is a bigger plus.

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Re:Mailchimp to Sendy: Cutting Email Costs by MichaelApproved on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @12:26PM (#20345807)

If your list is large enough to cost hundreds per month, is it still a hobby project? Shouldn't you be able to recoup the hosting cost with all those subscribers?

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Re:Mailchimp to Sendy: Cutting Email Costs by latortuga on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @12:54PM (#20346145)

This is the real issue. If you have 10k email newsletter subscribers and are completely unable to monetize them such that they pay for your email sending, that's the real problem. What's the point of having the list at this point?

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Re:Mailchimp to Sendy: Cutting Email Costs by rurp on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @01:12PM (#20346316)

Is it really inconceivable that the author has a primary goal other than maximizing revenue?

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Re:Mailchimp to Sendy: Cutting Email Costs by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @01:30PM (#20346465)

There's a big range between maximising revenue and 'this service can't afford its administration costs'.

But yes, some people are happy to personally pay the costs for others to enjoy their services.

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Re:Mailchimp to Sendy: Cutting Email Costs by joemi on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @01:38PM (#20346568)

Fair point, but not everyone is in a for-profit business. Many non-profits have large email lists and little funds.

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Re:Mailchimp to Sendy: Cutting Email Costs by MichaelApproved on Thursday July 04, 2019 @09:19AM (#20354330)

Non-profit doesn't mean non-revenue.

Any organization with a list that large should also be able to raise enough funds to cover the cost of hosting.

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Re:Mailchimp to Sendy: Cutting Email Costs by joemi on Thursday July 04, 2019 @01:45PM (#20356375)

Sure non-profits can probably put hundreds of dollars a month towards mailchimp. But don't you think that some non-profits would rather put that money towards whatever their non-profit is about? I don't get what's so hard to believe about that.

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Re:Mailchimp to Sendy: Cutting Email Costs by MichaelApproved on Sunday July 07, 2019 @08:09PM (#20378892)

It’s not hard to believe. I’m sure they’d rather put all money paid for services towards whatever their nonprofit is about. What’s your point?

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