Mailcoach
Web and SaaS
email newsletter software
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
5 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score -0.05.
Execution: 2 for, 2 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Self-hosted software is valuable
From 1 comment
Awesome. We can never have enough of high quality self hosted software.
lykr0n on HN
Website readable without JavaScript
From 1 comment
Thanks for making your website perfectly readable without JS enabled! A rare occurrence nowadays.
buzzert on HN
Objections
Composer installation may be a hurdle for non-PHP users
From 3 comments
I can read the installation instructions of Sendy and say "yup, I can do that. Upload a file, point my web browser towards it". I read the installation instructions of MailCoach…
Tomte on HNAnd it's a hurdle when the audience is small non-tech businesses wanting a newsletter. For a dev company, maybe even integrating it into one of their applications, great! Sendy…
Tomte on HNIt's a hurdle for anyone who isn't a PHP developer. Why would anyone else have reason to know that?
masukomi on HN
PHP is a poor fit for some teams
From 1 comment
As someone who has been out of the PHP game for a long time, is it still a viable choice for new software? I don't have fond memories of the language at that time, so seeing PHP…
ultrarunner on HN
Emoji rendering problem on the site
From 1 comment
You have some squares on your site are you putting emoji's on the site my web browser cannot process it. My user agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36…
brian_herman__ on HN
Requests
Free trial before paying
From 1 comment
We send our newsletters via mailtrain - https://github.com/Mailtrain-org/mailtrain with postmark as the backend. Where mailtrain falls short is the template editor but since we…
gramakri on HN
API to import users
From 1 comment
We send our newsletters via mailtrain - https://github.com/Mailtrain-org/mailtrain with postmark as the backend. Where mailtrain falls short is the template editor but since we…
gramakri on HN
Questions
How does it differ from Sendy
From 1 comment
I think this is a more modern alternative to Sendy (https://sendy.co/) which is a little cheaper. (no affiliation except being a user) Sendy does look like it has more features…
rolleiflex on HN
Does it support plain SMTP sending
From 1 comment
Did I miss something or it doesnt support straight SMTP to send?
locusm on HN
Alternatives named
Sendy
From 1 comment
I think this is a more modern alternative to Sendy (https://sendy.co/) which is a little cheaper. (no affiliation except being a user) Sendy does look like it has more features…
rolleiflex on HN
Mailtrain
From 2 comments
We send our newsletters via mailtrain - https://github.com/Mailtrain-org/mailtrain with postmark as the backend. Where mailtrain falls short is the template editor but since we…
gramakri on HNOpen alternatives : - https://mailtrain.org/ And more like mailgun : - https://postal.atech.media/ Both hosted and easy to use.
anonme4ever on HN
Listmonk
From 1 comment
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:…
mahesh_rm on HN
Postal
From 1 comment
Open alternatives : - https://mailtrain.org/ And more like mailgun : - https://postal.atech.media/ Both hosted and easy to use.
anonme4ever on HN