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24 alternatives to https://www.markdownmail.io – Bulk newsletter sender using Amazon SES

We recently launched a new project called https://www.markdownmail.io The motivations behind https://www.markdownmail.io was that we wanted to be able to occasionally send out an email to our user base. Currently we have over 100k subscribers and on average send an email once every other month. With the mailchimp it was costing us $475 per month. That's a lot of money to send an occasional newsletter. So we started to look for alternatives. We decided to move to sendy.co which is self hosted and uses SES. Whilst the costs where lower we found the product unstable and…

Markdownmail.io is a bulk newsletter sender that uses Amazon SES to deliver emails to large subscriber lists. Built for teams needing to send occasional newsletters at lower costs than traditional platforms, it offers… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. https://www.markdownmail.io – Bulk newsletter sender using Amazon SES launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Maillayer▲462

    Send email campaigns via Amazon SES with NoCode

    2024 · maillayer.com · its alternatives →

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    Sendy 4▲212

    Send newsletters, 100x cheaper via Amazon SES

    2019 · sendy.co · its alternatives →

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    Hi all! Excited to share rss2newsletter after completing dev work for the initial release. The idea for this project came out of necessity, as I wanted to share my articles via email newsletter. I was looking for a super minimal, lightweight, and open source solution, and when none existed, I decided to create one. For any sizable number of email recipients, a popular platform like Mailchimp will easily cost you hundreds or even thousands per month in per-contact fees. rss2newsletter, on the other hand, allows you to use Amazon SES, so you can reach your audience at pennies on the dollar.…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Mailtrain hosting. Send newsletters cheaper via Amazon SES

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Hi, The beta program of my new startup, Maildown, is now complete and is now accepting paying customers: https://www.maildown.app As well as a lot of stability enhancements, we've added a new help system, a new CLI (https://github.com/chris104957/mailer-cli) and a REST API. Maildown lets you create transactional and marketing email campaigns using Markdown syntax, so you can generate and send your email content far more quickly than with traditional WYSIWYG editors. Thanks for looking, Chris

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Build your newsletter in minutes

    2024 · curatedletters.com · its alternatives →

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    Cheap and simple transactional emails API with Amazon SES

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Send up to 62,000 newsletters for free every month

    2020 · honzik.cloudflareaccess.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi all! Excited to share cc.dev after months of work and refinement. The idea for this product came from trying to do email marketing for my side project, CubeDesk, a site where Rubik's Cube enthusiasts can time themselves, race with one another, train algorithms — it's a fun niche! With over 40k users, sending even a single campaign was becoming expensive with MailChimp. I knew AWS SES would be much cheaper, but it’s just an API with none of the other necessities you need for a robust email marketing platform. Beyond cost, I was also frustrated with having to make sure my database was…

    2023 · cc.dev · its alternatives →

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    One inbox. Outreach, team chat, AI, and video — built in.

    2025 · greenmormail.com · its alternatives →

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    CLI tool to write and send newsletters in Markdown

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi all, I've posted a few times here about Maildown, a startup that I've been trying to validate lately. Due to lack of time to focus on this, I've taken the decision to abandon the project as a startup, but to make it available as an open source solution instead. The (still very basic) github repository is here: https://github.com/chris104957/maildown Maildown now exists as a simple CLI wrapper for Amazon SES which bakes in Markdown and styling support, making it much easier to get transactional mails up and running in any project Thanks for looking, Chris

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Send hundreds of personalized emails with Gmail.

    2019 · mailmeteor.com · its alternatives →

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    Mailtrain▲323

    Self hosted newsletter app (Mailchimp clone)

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn markdown into responsive, email-safe HTML that renders perfectly across every client.

    Mar 2026 · emailmd.dev · its alternatives →

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    The easiest way to send simple newsletters

    2017 · buttondown.com · its alternatives →

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    MailGet▲124

    Super affordable Email marketing via Amazon SES

    2016 · formget.com · its alternatives →

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    Send Emails, SMS & push notifications via your AWS Account

    2020 · sendwithses.com · its alternatives →

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    Email Marketing & Automation Platform

    2024 · sendmails.io · its alternatives →

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    00▲280

    Email software you can own

    2024 · double-zero.cloud · its alternatives →

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    Write emails in markdown (Chrome extension)

    2014 · markdown-here.com · its alternatives →

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    Community of paid newsletter creators 💌

    2019 · indiemailer.com · its alternatives →

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    Send out self-hosted newsletters affordably

    2020 · mailcoach.app · its alternatives →

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    Mailblast▲218

    Email marketing on a budget using Amazon SES

    2017 · mailblast.io · its alternatives →

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