I'm trying to create my own mailing list using a sign up form from my landing page and I'm wasting a lot of time trying to over engineer the solution. I need some tips to get out of my engineering mindset and move over to the entrepreneurial / founder mindset of shipping fast. How have you fellow engineers / designers dealt with this ? Also back to my original question, What is the easiest way to get a mailing list up and running. Any services with generous free tiers that you're aware of ?

I would say just use https://www.getrevue.co/ and include it on your website and Twitter http://help.getrevue.co/en/articles/4970180-how-to-embed-a-sign-up-form-in-your-website http://help.getrevue.co/en/articles/5356115-show-your-newsletter-on-your-twitter-profile

@rough-application-24965 Thanks a lot. It looks like, the email templates are pretty limited in revue. Do you have any platform in mind for sending custom emails ?

MailChimp ?

I use https://emailoctopus.com/ for sending out the RI newsletter and it has an option to support HTML emails (customisation)

@able-xylophone-142 I checked out mail chimp but honestly, their product seemed to be too overwhelming for my needs.

I second @able-xylophone-142 Mailchimp - once you create a form, they give you a button widget code or even host your sign up page for you. Most website templates (for eg on carrd or similar services) plug-in easily to Mailchimp.

Thank you @acceptable-summer-68562, I'm playing around with revue and emailOctopus at the moment. I'll give this a shot as well 🙂

@rough-application-24965 Thanks a lot. It looks like, the email templates are pretty limited in revue. Do you have any platform in mind for sending custom emails ?

If you are okay with self-hosting try this one https://github.com/knadh/listmonk

@rough-application-24965 The annoying engineer in me says yes to self hosting. But I need to refrain from this for now 😆

I am experimenting with Sendinblue right now. The best part is they have no limits on the number of emails you can have.