Switching reason · Pricing & plans · Causes churn
Considering self-hosted software to avoid Mailchimp's cost
2 source threads · first seen 2021-05 · last seen 2022-07
Summary
The user is leaning toward an open-source, self-hosted newsletter tool rather than Mailchimp, citing its cost and their non-commercial use case.
- Affects
- Newsletter creators with non-commercial projects
- Workaround
- Considering an open-source solution hosted independently.
- Switched to or considered
- An open-source self-hosted solution
Evidence
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“the more I tend to use some open source solution and host it myself”
“instead of choosing Mailchimp I choose Mailerlite, which is Europe-based and, being less popular than Mailchimp, (much) less expensive”