HACKER Q&A
📣 jarbus

How do you run your website's newsletter?


I have a personal website that I build with Hugo, and currently the only way to subscribe to new posts is with an RSS feed. I want to add an option to subscribe to a newsletter via email for people who don't use RSS, but I can't find a good way to do so for a low cost since tinyletter.com was killed. What does HN use to host a mailing list? I don't need advanced features like analytics, just a way to subscribe to an RSS feed via email.


  👤 roosgit Accepted Answer ✓
I used to use MailChimp. The current free plan seems to be limited to 500 subscribers and 1000 monthly email sends. So if you have less than 250 subscribers you can send a weekly email to all of them, for free.

I noticed they also offer an RSS to Email option, but I couldn’t find if it’s available on the Free plan. https://mailchimp.com/features/rss-to-email/


👤 cranberryturkey
store the email in a db and send out an email once a week