by jrs235 on 2/27/15, 3:00 PM
This is owlsend (owlsend.com) re-branded after causing confusion with sendowl (sendowl.com).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9068154I'm glad to see they fixed their logo so it isn't a blue owl.
I'm disappointed to see that they still haven't made it more clear that the $29 / month is a flat rate to use their interface and the end user still pays $1 / 10,000 emails to SES. If you send a weekly email (4/month) to 10,000 subscribers, you pay $29 + $4 = $33. If you send a daily (30 / month) email to 10,000 subscribers you'll pay $29 + $30 = $59. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9070921
by richardwigley on 2/27/15, 11:36 AM
I saw Mail Chimp at $200 a month for 10,000 and thought.. really? However, when I look at Mail Chimp it seems to be $75.
So: 10K subscribers, Monthly charge, Unlimited sendlimit
Mail Chimp - $75 - http://mailchimp.com/pricing/all/
SendGlide - $29 - http://www.sendglide.com/
Still favourable for you but significantly different. I appreciate that pricing is always complicated. Am I missing something?
by AndrewKemendo on 2/27/15, 1:58 PM
Maybe I'm an old fart but I don't like fancy emails because they never display right. Seems like simpler is better for email. Keep it short and to the point.
Are people finding that the fancy emails convert better?
by noelwelsh on 2/27/15, 1:16 PM
Yikes, I wouldn't want to compete on price. I personally believe it's the features beyond MailChimp where the action is. Let MailChimp have the low-end. It's going to be really hard to fight them for crumbs at the table.
by xyby on 2/27/15, 11:18 AM
I'm sending out a newsletter every now and then. A simple text newsletter that goes out to about 50,000 subscribers. I send it via a PHP script I wrote myself. It can do a/b tests, bounce- and optout-handling. Every time I see commercial offerings like this one, I wonder: Would I gain anything by using them? They seem pretty expensive to me.
My selfmade solution also can do HTML mailings, but I never was able to measure any benefit of styled newsletters over text. So I usually use just text.
by NicoJuicy on 2/27/15, 12:21 PM
I have a small email marketing app, that can integrate text as well as html. (based on Asp.Net MVC and WebApi)
It also allows conditionals (Mustache like syntax) and multiple languages in one "Send"... Haven't bootstrapped it though, it's for personal use and because i have multiple clients in french, english and dutch...
Most of the time, i use it to send the "launch" letter for a new website, with the mailing list that i collected from their landing page.
it just makes my life easier :)
by jwblackwell on 2/27/15, 1:18 PM
We use to use
http://sendy.co/ which is a self hosted solution, but doesn't really offer anything in the way of templates and lacks some features. We ultimately left as we now use Intercom but I'd be interested in seeing how this service evolves.
by martin-adams on 2/27/15, 2:04 PM
Might want to set up redirects, canonical or robots.txt on
http://www.owlsend.com/ as right now you're double serving your content to Google and is not optimal from an SEO standpoint, let alone confusing for customers.
by crazyintern on 2/27/15, 3:51 PM
Having used Constant Contact for a while now I'm kind of biased towards them but I'm always looking at new ways and services for doing things. What is the biggest difference between SendGlide and them/what do you have that they don't?
by jaxn on 2/27/15, 2:27 PM
I think there is a pretty small market for small businesses who want to use a service like this, but want to / are capable of setting up their own Amazon SES setup.
The small business market is already hard since budgets are small and support needs are high.
by runarb on 2/27/15, 11:41 AM
by vonklaus on 2/27/15, 3:34 PM
Broken on mobile. Menu takes up the whole screen so I couldn't read anything about the product.
by supercoder on 2/27/15, 12:18 PM
Site seems really broken on iOS
by fiatjaf on 2/27/15, 12:31 PM
Small business are business that send 10000 emails per month?
by robsondealmeida on 2/27/15, 1:53 PM
Any way to have more than 100K subscribers?