Pain point · Pricing & plans · Blocks work
Mailchimp is expensive to run campaigns
2 source threads · first seen 2011-01 · last seen 2020-08
Summary
The author says Mailchimp can be expensive for customer-update campaigns, prompting them to try alternatives and build a lower-cost option.
- Affects
- Teams sending customer updates
- Workaround
- Tried Sendy and is building an open-source, self-hostable alternative.
Evidence
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“I have tried several marketing platforms such as Mailchimp and Sendy. However, they can be really expensive or hard to maintain/set-up”
“It seems that Amazon did to SendGrid what SendGrid did to "1 cent per email" providers such as Mailchimp”