sendy

We're talking MailChimp/Campaign Monitor VS Amazon SES, if we're comparing MailChimp/Campaign Monitor VS sending emails from you own server as a cheaper alternative, then there is no reason for Sendy to exist.

Yes Amazon SES is way cheaper, but it does not mean it's of lesser quality than other more expensive services. Deliverability rates are comparable and at times, higher when compared against Campaign Monitor in our tests when building Sendy.

We see high potential in SES, such great quality at such low price. The only drawback is there is no UI for newsletter campaigns. So we built it and hopefully the general public who'd like to send newsletters but aren't too technically inclined (or are too busy to figure) can take advantage of Amazon SES through Sendy.

The only reason why it's a one time fee of $40 is because it's self hosted.

The .htaccess contains rewrite rules for pretty urls.

Yes updates are included until the next major version, just like desktop apps. And yes you can send multipart emails. :)

Hey guys! Great to find a discussion here.

Lots of people has been requesting a demo, we'll definitely put this up.

And yes, free updates are included up to the next major version (just like desktop apps).