Show HN: Tabular – Email design tool that generates bulletproof email HTML

Re:Show HN: Tabular – Email design tool that generates bulle... by joshstrange on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:33PM (#34972966)

Looks very cool. I've been using PostmarkApp to send my transactional emails but considered switching as their prices are increasing and I'd be much better served by something that is completely "pay for usage" like SES (my usage is very bursty/spiky and over 50% of the time I send next to no emails in a month) but one big thing holding my back is email design. PostmarkApp has some decent tools/templates that I've enjoyed using and I'm lazy (and the higher prices haven't gone into effect for me yet)

That said, this is a bit of a hard sell for me because I have like 3-4 email templates per service I run (currently 3) and $12/mo is a hard sell for something I'll probably tweak 1-2 times a year at most. I guess I could just pay when I actively need to use it but that's a bit of a pain itself (subscribing/unsubscribing). If I was writing marketing-type emails regularly then I'd be very interested in this.

What I probably need to do is find an open source email templating library, take the time to build my emails using that, and call it a day.

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Re:Show HN: Tabular – Email design tool that generates bulle... by maxnando on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @04:01PM (#34974781)

Interesting, I can imagine that if you only edit your templates 1-2 times a year you wouldn't need a recurring subscriptions. With the always free plan you can download 3 HTML emails per month, so if you only need to tweak 3 of your templates per month you wouldn't have to resubscribe.

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