Newsletter Sender gets dressed up

Happy Friday!

Yesterday was all about bringing Newsletter Sender back to life. Today has been about making it look the part, and I think it’s finally starting to feel like a proper product.

All dressed up

The home page and features page have had a real makeover. Every feature now sits in its own box with a screen grab of the app at the top, so you can see exactly what you’re getting before you install a thing. Click any grab and it opens up nice and big.

There’s also a short promo video, music and all, right on the home page. It runs just over a minute and walks through the editor, the reports and a count up to 100,000 subscribers sent in under 10 minutes. I’m rather pleased with that one.

If Amazon SES isn’t your thing, there are now step by step guides for Postmark, Mailgun, Brevo and Resend in the help section, plus one on using Cloudflare for sign up confirmations. Better still, when you paste in your key and press Save, the app now sets up the bounce and spam complaint webhook for you. That’s one fiddly job most people would forget about, done automatically.

An edition for agencies

Yesterday I said an agency edition was coming “down the line”. Turns out the line was a lot shorter than I thought. It now has its own page, built for agencies and resellers who look after newsletters for lots of clients. If that sounds like you, there’s an enquiry form at the bottom and I’d love to hear from you.

Posteo and your own domain

On the reviews side, I published a new guide answering a question that comes up time and again: can you use your own domain with Posteo? The short answer is no, by design. The guide explains why, the workaround if you only need to receive mail and how to set your domain up on Proton Mail or Fastmail instead.

Something brewing

I also had a bit of a lightbulb moment this afternoon. What started as an idea for a little Mac app has grown into something much bigger, and I’ve already bought the domain (as you do). I won’t say too much just yet, but if you’ve ever found out your website was down from a customer rather than a computer, I think you’ll like where this is heading. Watch this space.

Odds and ends

• A small one, but useful: I can now see how many people actually send a message through my contact form, using ReaderCount, my own cookie-free stats tool. So if you do get in touch, you’ll officially count! 🙂
• For anyone wondering what all this costs to run: last night I load tested Newsletter Sender with 100,000 pretend subscribers. Cloudflare sent me a slightly alarming email about database usage, and my bill is still sitting at a grand total of $0. Not bad at all.

Have a lovely weekend, whatever you’re up to.

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