Buttondown
The easiest way to send simple newsletters
Buttondown launched on July 9, 2017 with 208 votes, #124 of 2,972 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
What it does
Buttondown is a simple, powerful tool for building and sending newsletters and emails. I struggled with other tools that were either too complex and expensive or too simple and unwieldy, so I created an alternative: an elegant interface that lets you write and edit quickly while providing all the amenities a modern email app needs.
Buttondown is the last email platform you'll migrate to. We're focused on your success, not on bleeding you dry.
Creators just want to reach their audience, but why is that so weird right now? Social platforms come & go. Email providers grow and stop supporting you. Or they’ll shut down, despite the fact that you need your email to work like it’s a utility that you can depend on. Or they’ll hike their fees, forcing you to go through a stressful migration. Or they’ll add dozens of features that you’ll never want to use. Or they’ll just turn flatly evil. This all should theoretically be easy: make something, tell your audience, repeat. And that’s how it usually is – until it’s not. Turns out creating is only hard when other people make it hard. What if your email provider actually wanted you to succeed,…from buttondown.com
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