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High performance, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard. Single binary app.

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Ask HN: What not-profit-seeking project are you tinkering with this week? | Oct 2022
Adding new features to listmonk (mailing list / newsletter manager), preparing for its next release.

https://github.com/knadh/listmonk

Setting up and playing around with Omeka, a brilliant document publishing system, to help publish an archive of digitised physical books and documents.

https://omeka.org

Show HN: Unvalidated Ideas – all my unused Startup/SaaS ideas in one place | Sep 2022
Hey HN,

After getting up to something like 300 individual notes on ideas that I thought someone should build, I figured I should start sending out some of these ideas so they'd have a chance of actually being built.

It's been roughly 19 issues, ~4 months and now over 800 subscribers are reading the newsletter every week and every once in a while I get someone who is executing an idea! In the meantime I seem to have ~520 ideas so it seems like a somewhat positive sum set up right now.

I recently started and scrapped a move to Ghost. Despite how much I like Ghost as a platform, my custom stack of SvelteKit[0] + Listmonk[1] has been very very productive.

Would love to answer any questions about my stack or the ideas! You can see the latest editions at URLs like this:

https://unvalidated-ideas.vadosware.io/editions/019 (change the "019")

[0]: https://kit.svelte.dev

[1]: https://github.com/knadh/listmonk

Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest | Sep 2022
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Funnily enough, I'm actually working on something (a proxy) that turns the Mailgun API into SMTP/Listmonk[0], since I was annoyed that Ghost only allows Mailgun.

Great to hear they're a solution for this though -- will update my article to reflect them next to ImprovMX.

[0]: https://github.com/knadh/listmonk
Ask HN: I have tens of thousands of subscribers. Now how do I send a newsletter? | Jul 2022
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What benefit do I get from using those services, over putting an open source solution on a $5/month machine and using that?

This one has 8k stars on Github:

https://github.com/knadh/listmonk

This one also seems to be popular:

https://github.com/phpList/phplist3
Show HN: Build or don't build a software feature? | Mar 2022
Love the stuff that ZeroDHA builds (I'm a heavy user of Listmonk[0]). Maybe this is the secret to them shipping so consistently and high impact features!

[0]: https://github.com/knadh/listmonk

Building a serverless email delivery service on AWS | Sep 2021
Neat setup there, using SQS to ease up to not hit SES limits.

If one wants to go further than just one-off emails, listmonk by Zerodha, a fintech company that builds most of its tech in-house, is pretty decent for an email-list manager. It one-click deploys to Heroku and the only dependency is Postgres. It could use SES as its SMTP server.

https://github.com/knadh/listmonk

Show HN: DropList - Send your marketing campaigns 100x cheaper | Aug 2020
Congratulations on the launch, how does it differs from that of listmonk[1], it's open source and battle tested at Zerodha. Ability to create templates via a drag/drop tool would give marketers a lot less friction.

[1]https://github.com/knadh/listmonk

Ask HN: Best current mailing list manager? | Apr 2020
coming in from other thread regarding zerodha, this caught my attention.

not sure if it fits the bill.. https://github.com/knadh/listmonk

Show HN: A self-hosted email engine | Jan 2020
Listmonk was posted here some time ago, I have yet to try it out, but if you are not scared by alpha-quality code, it could be a good free performance-driven alternative to this: https://github.com/knadh/listmonk
Substack | Jul 2019
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Profits scaling were already discussed in a comment above, ofc, this assumes linear growth where substack is charging (as it is now) only on subscription without going in for revenue from promotional activities (internal promotion of content), advertisements (external sponsors), reader/creator data (google model) or digital/print publishing (leverage of user base substack reach out) in form of a (e)book. Yes, this can make profit multiplier really big (12M/yr subscription + 50x from else)

But what about integrity of service over time then?

All of this means losing initial flavor of 'doing-things-differently', a lot of other companies can provide boilerplate '-stack' for publishing newsletter (ie, recent yc news -https://github.com/knadh/listmonk - self hosted). So, in the end, the only edge of content hosting platform is how well it delivers it's content (UX, rec systems, internal ads), the bigger substack gets, the less of an edge for its creator base it will have - same as medium.com.

I risk a statement that substack is happening only because medium.com is ending.

Yes, as an author I would be interested in hassle free publishing, but after that, i am interested only in how service is helping me grow an audience, nothing else.