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Dev tools · April 6, 2019

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Maildown – Markdown email campaigns

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

Maildown – Markdown email campaigns launched on April 6, 2019 with 92 votes, #370 of 3,128 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

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Maildown is a tool for creating transactional and marketing email campaigns using Markdown syntax instead of traditional visual editors. It is designed for developers and marketing teams who want to generate and send email content faster. The platform includes a help system, command-line interface, and REST API for programmatic access.

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