Buttondown

A small, elegant tool for producing newsletters.

5.0•10 reviews•

28 followers

A small, elegant tool for producing newsletters.

5.0•10 reviews•

28 followers

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Wow, what a great job, Justin! Awesome product. I just wonder what the pricing will be. I could not find any info on that. I have 4000 subscribers, should I switch from Mailchimp? :)

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9yr ago

@vasily_kuznetsov Pricing looks really straight forward. and reasonable https://buttondown.email/pricing/

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9yr ago

Great job Justin! I have tried many newsletter tools and I can testify that Buttondown makes it extremely easy to get going vs the competition. I was able to put together a sweet short newsletter in less than 5 minutes. However, image(s) (I tested several) that I placed at the top of my email are not showing up centered when viewing my newsletter on an iPhone 6 (dimensions 722px x 299px). The image shows up perfectly centered when I view the email inside a browser. Most subscribers will view my emails on their mobile phone through their email client, so this is a big issue for me. Also, I think you should consider adding a page, tab, or pop-up (anything would work) that a Buttondown user can refer to when considering the use of markdown. This option could provide users with quick tips on how to customize/style their own newsletter. This would add a bit of fun to the whole package, and allow someone to effortlessly experiment with all of the available markdown options. The tint color feature is a bit confusing because the custom colors only appear when viewing the newsletter in a browser. Is this a bug, or is there something preventing this from working the way it should inside mobile email clients? Lastly, I believe in order to truly compete with some of the better/simple newsletter tools out there, you need to offer the option for someone to use their own custom domain instead of www.buttondown.email/yournewslet.... For me, this would seal the deal. I do see this idea listed on your public roadmap but it says "custom domains for subscribing pages". Does this mean individual email urls cannot be custom? Hope this feedback is useful, congrats again on the launch and I'm excited to see how you improve on this version. Cheers!

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9yr ago

Buttondown

Maker

@madebyildi Ahhhh this is great feedback! Point by point: 1. That definitely sounds like a strange issue, as email formatting can be a fickle beast 😅. Would you mind forwarding the given email to me at justin@buttondown.email, so I can take a look? 2. Adding a Markdown reference is a *great* idea. This is something I think I have a blind spot in, just since I've been writing in it for so long: I'm adding it to the backlog! 3. Neither a bug nor anything preventing it: just an oversight on my part. Great call. 4. Yup, I could have phrased that better. It'd be the whole shebang, including individual emails and the public archive.

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9yr ago

@justinmduke awesome thanks for the clarifications! Sent you an email.

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9yr ago

Product looks great but I'm in need of multiple lists, is that something that's coming soon? Hope so!

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9yr ago

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Maker

Hey PH (and thanks to Iheanyi for hunting this!) Buttondown was born from a frustration with a lot of existing newsletter tools: I wanted something more lightweight than, like, Mailchimp, but wasn't a huge fan of Tinyletter or any of the other existing solutions. I wanted a tool that had, IMO, a bunch of table stakes stuff for 2017 (Markdown support, proofing, email scheduling, analytics) and was pleasant to use. Nothing really existed, so I decided to make it 😅 It's been a lot of fun to make, and just as much fun to use. I hope you check it out and I'd love to answer any questions you might have!

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9yr ago

Love the tool, and Justin is the best at feedback!

Pros:

Super easy to use, can see which subscriber opened the letter, can track links clicked

Cons:

None really, leaving the app seems to turn off scheduled letters

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8yr ago

As someone who just spend three days trying to figure out Sendgrid to send a single e-mail to our customers, I can really appreciate a much lighter touch. I'd love to see how TextBox could integrate into this app, making it really easy to generate key words, extract e-mails etc. (https://machinebox.io/docs/textbox)

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9yr ago

The pricing is quite reasonable, especially considering how powerful it is.

Pros:

This is the nicest user interface and experience I've seen. I hope more developers have a look at how simple something can be to use.

Cons:

It helps to know Markdown. In my opinion, it's as easy as it can be without using design widgets that make email design more clunky.

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7yr ago

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Reviewers describe Buttondown as a clean, markdown-first newsletter tool that feels easier to use than bloated email platforms while offering more capability than stripped-down alternatives. They repeatedly praise the simple UI, fast setup, and smooth handling of drafts, subscribers, and sending. Several highlight responsive, helpful support and steady product updates. Specific features users value include a programmable API, custom domains, opt-out analytics, and signup categories. The feedback here is notably one-sided: users especially like it for personal and tech-focused newsletters.

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