Heyo! Been building Joyful (joyful.to) as a newsletter platform that also hosts your newsletter for you on your own personal site. It's totally free to get started and happy to answer any questions about it!

I get there are other platform operations and costs (I am finding them myself on Joyful) but damn. That’s still a ton of difference in their prices.

What do you think of newsletter platform prices?

If you were to sign up with Beehiiv on their Max plan, which lets you remove their branding, 10,000 subscribers would cost you $193/month (billed annually)!

Thats CRAZY!

For Ghost and Buttondown, they are both over $100 a month for similar amount of subscribers.

Why is it so expensive?

I've been building Joyful (joyful.to) and would love for you to give it a try and see if it could work for your needs!

This means every part of the code can emit events that get saved to a queue that other aspects of the code can then ingest.

This makes it powerful to trigger automations based on anything you can think of! Link clicks, opens, sign-up dates, birthdays, etc.

It's been actually really fun to build this part. Each aspect of the code needed to be outfitted with a publisher and subscriber system. Inspired a bit by Robot OS (ROS) which has topics and event driven structures.

That'd be amazing, yes! Great suggestions, gives me some more to think about

Got it! That totally makes sense. I can definitely see a way to mark a version as "published" before it is totally published. And each of these versions were sent via email + your personal site? Curious about the distribution as well.

Oooh! That sounds interesting. Are you thinking subscribers could opt into seeing works-in-progress as they're being edited live, or more like sharing polished drafts before the final publish?

Which platform are you moving to?

haha what do you use to write your newsletters?