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September 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Our fearless leader aka CEO, @jmduke.com, sat down with the lovely Drishti Jain for a deep dive chat on what happens behind the scenes at Buttondown and why creators love us. 💌

Check it out and subscribe to CEO Deep Dive!
youtu.be/COi4F1eNq8k?...
A Youtube thumbnail of an interview with Buttondown CEO, Justin Duke, and Drishti Jain.
September 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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hi! we're at @djangocon.us! if you're here, come grab a postcard and we'll send it for you :)
a bunch of postcards next to a badly written box that says "buttondown"
September 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Happy National Dog Day! 🐶🐕🐾
Post card illustration of the Chicago skyline. There is a 1/4 inch boarder in the traditional post card blue, red, and white stripes. The illustration shows a woman wearing a yellow dress and blue shoes with white socks sitting in a park reading a letter on a red blanket, there are three other people walking on a path along the lake on a sunny day, with a few white clouds. One man wearing a green top and yellow pants is eating a hotdog, another man wearing a red top and mauve-ish pants is walking his dog (the dog is orange with black spots on the end of his body with a black tail), and a wearing a red and white stripped top and green shorts person riding their red bike with a green messenger bag across their body. In the lake there is a yellow boat. In the sky, there is an orange and red plane with a little blue man wearing a scarf that is blowing in the wind. Attached to the back of the plane is a blue banner flowing in the wind that says "Buttondown" in white letters.
August 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Happy HTML Day! Get out there and make the internet a little bit more fun! ✨
A box of donuts that spell out HTML DAY
August 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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👀
a screenshot of the buttondown dashboard, in the settings > account -> profile tab. in it, there's a new option that's titled "redirect to dashboard"
June 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Email vs social media. Long-term relationships vs short-term connections. A modern tale of the tortoise and the hare.
https://buttondown.com/blog/emails-lindy-lifetime
May 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Imagine, if you will, a world in which you can right-align or left-align buttons in your emails.

That world — if you can believe it! — is this world.

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A screenshot of a right-aligned custom button
February 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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see that big chunk of red 503s in the middle? that's your fault jacky
February 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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February 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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new analytic, y'all! find out what sites are sending the most traffic your way. so you can send them roses (et cetera).

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February 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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🥳

What better way to end the month than by reading your favorite newsletter platform's latest changelog entry? [^1]

Hot off the presses — support for related emails! You can link folks to other issues in your back catalog!

buttondown.com/changelog/20...

[^1]: please bear with us
Web archive showing Related emails at bottom of page
January 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Wrote this back in late 2023; if anything, feels more relevant than ever today.
January 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Not quite changelog worthy, but we just threw a fresh coat of paint on the email analytics drawer. It's now easier to compare metrics across emails!
January 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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we're experimenting with "the least bad one out there" as our positioning but maybe we should run an a/b test against "not actively the worst"
January 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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like so!
January 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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mrr: not just a sound that contented cats make [^1]. you can now check your recurring revenue from the comfort of your Buttondown dashboard.

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[^1]: sorry, really reaching on this one
January 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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bsky.app/profile/jmdu...
January 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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oh! OG-style previews for stuff _in the newsletter_. you can just drop in the URL as a standalone line:
January 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Back by popular demand.
New year. New you. Newsletter.
December 31, 2024 at 9:30 PM
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don't let the lack of effusive enthusiasm for this changelog entry fool you — the grand total of four people who will be using this feature are OVER THE MOON

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Some features are whizbang — genuinely exciting, game-changing additions to Buttondown's surface area that radically transform how you use the tool. Others are, uh, more esoteric. More mundane, perhaps. "Webhooks for exports" is one of those esoteric features. Our statistics show that not that many of you use webhooks (they're a niche feature!), and the venn diagram of people who use webhooks and people who use exports is... well, small.
December 27, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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we humbly and proudly present the newest edition in a long line of seasonal h1 tags.
December 24, 2024 at 2:50 AM
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👀
December 22, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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we're trying out something a little new. if you link your bsky account to your newsletter and post one of your emails, we'll automatically link the post. (t/y @profgabriele.com for being a useful example):
December 20, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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our rough 2025 plan: "keep doing what we're doing". (and, yes, improve the mobile experience. shout out @smi.bsky.social for the many lovely screenshots + videos of mobile jank.)
December 18, 2024 at 10:08 PM