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Buttondown is the best (and spookiest! 🦇🎃👻) way to start and run your newsletter.
Seattle, WA
Joined May 2017
I really wish every single person would write a newsletter. Not necessarily to make money from it. Not to quit their jobs and become a writer. Just to share what they're up to, what they're reading, what they're interested in. The number of interesting people I've met through my.
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We're very, very excited to work alongside Ghost to evolve and proselytize ActivityPub as a great tool for authors to stay connected with their audience without tethering themselves to Yet Another Algorithm or Yet Another Walled Garden:.
Today we're excited to share that Ghost is going to federate over ActivityPub and become part of the largest open publishing network in the world 🌐. We hope you'll join us! 🎉.
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As of an hour or two ago, I've moved entirely off of Google Analytics in favor of a lighter-weight, more privacy-minded solution in @usefathom. It feels. good.
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I am downright 🎷jazzed🎺 to inform you that you can now hook up your RSS feed to Buttondown and automatically send out emails. No more Zapier; no more duct-tape; no more copy-paste. Write once; publish everywhere.
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To give folks a bit more control over their newsletters & their data, analytics enablement is now more granular! Instead of all-or-nothing, just track the specific events you care about. (And, of course, everything remains off by default.)
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For folks looking to move their newsletter, given the recent news about Tinyletter: we're a (free!) alternative that supports Tinyletter subscriber + archive imports! I'd be happy to set you up myself: feel free to email / DM.
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Tens of thousands of developers love @cassidoo's newsletters. We dug into how she's grown and evolved her newsletter over the past five years (with Buttondown every step of the way!).
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One of the pages I'm particularly proud of from the new webdesign redesign is Buttondown's stance on privacy and data collection:.
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Happy Friday! Buttondown's new writing interface is live :). (Longer writeup coming soon once things stabilize a bit.)
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💻 I've moved what I am lovingly calling "Myspace Mode" out of private beta. Style your archives to your heart's content.
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Just published the Q4 roadmap!. 🔒 2FA support.📖 Improved public archive list.💻 Repricing & a public demo.✍️ Editor improvements.📧 Better private filtering & listing. (Plus, as our friends in iOS-land say, "bug fixes & performance improvements.").
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Pay-what-you-want (or is it "pay what you want"? "Pay What You Want"?) subscriptions are now live!.
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🔐 MFA support is going live in the next hour or so, once I settle on the right size for this QR code. (Please do not scan random QR codes you find in tweets.)
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Hello, new friends and old friends! Some small notes on the past few weeks and what's on the roadmap for the next few weeks →.
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We try really, really hard to walk the walk when it comes to accessibility. If you find an a11y concern (poorly labeled button, div-that-shouldn't-be-a-div), email justin@buttondown.email — I will straight up drop what I'm doing to fix it.
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Blog post coming soon, but — at long last, you can now send specific emails from your archives to new subscribers.
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New Year's Resolutions:. · rss syncing.· offline mode.· support for teams and SSO.· snout-to-tail analytics.· js + python bindings.· full internationalization support.· dark mode.· tiered paid subscriptions.· twitter + mastodon integrations.· sustainable, independent, boring.
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It's been a quiet 2020 (lots of other things going on, and a bit of writer's block), but I'm excited to ramp up on some big projects soon. In the meantime, some small ships:. 📦 You can now directly export emails to HTML/PDF.📅 You can customize the date format of your archives.
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how long do you think we can keep up this h1 tag without feeling silly? the goal is at least a week
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outline for a new long-form guide. what do you think we're missing?
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@pascallaliberte @buttondown is just a <form> element. So you can style it any way you want. I'm using that on my website in the footer of each page.
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Coming soon(ish) to a tool near you — multiple newsletters per account!
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Bummed by the news that Revue is shutting down?. Want to migrate to a newsletter provider that isn't beholden to the whims of a corporate overlord? . It takes all of five minutes and I can do it for you if you'd like :). justin@buttondown.email.
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Want to include interstitial subscribe forms to convert folks who are browsing your archives? You can, by using the new `{{ subscribe_form }}` tag!
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Buttondown's core WYSIWYG editor is built on top of Tiptap, a headless wrapper around ProseMirror that removes much of the busywork and trickiness in building a lovely, feature-rich writing experience. Tiptap comes with a lot of great extensions out of the box for common bits of
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Buttondown is now donating monthly to support @storybookjs. (I can't believe it took me this long to start using it; it has _dramatically_ improved my velocity on front-end engineering.).
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Shipped in July:. - Apple Podcast + Simplecast embeds.- Better draft sending UX.- Unsplash integration.- Twitter integration.- Better paywall UX.- New Zapier app.- Archive search.- API versioning.- Naked Mode.- 139 unit tests.- zero incidents.
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dear @tinyletter users — we're around all week to migrate you over to a new tool. you keep your subscribers and archives; it should only take a few minutes to move everything over before Mailchimp pulls the plug in February. email me and I can do it for you, free of charge:.
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📧 You can now send draft emails to specific subscribers, making it easier to test out mail merges, tags, or conditional templates!
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Going live shortly: expanded subscriber analytics with aggregated metrics (if you have analytics enabled, of course.)!
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Excited to finally launch a public status page, which I certainly hope will perpetually remain as boring as it currently is:.
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BREAKING NEWS: you can now label your RSS feeds. XML power-users everywhere are clamoring and rejoicing.
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Custom inputs in hosted subscribe forms are rolling out to private beta. Interested?📧justin@buttondown.email
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We've all been there before — which is exactly why we check every link for you before you hit Send.
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Long overdue: Buttondown archives now play nice with Pocket! Yay for offline reading and such.
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Happy New Year! . I jotted down some quick thoughts on Buttondown's plans for 2021 →.
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What we're gonna ship in 2024:. · nicer editor.· better docs.· clearer settings.· smarter analytics.· some new gifs for when you get new subscribers. Read it all here:.
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I haven't been blogging about many feature updates this year. This is a tiny step to fix that in the waning days of 2020, and a feature that I'm personally quite happy to ship: undoing your sent emails!.
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In May, we quietly shipped a clever trick to improve subscriptions: if we can figure out what email provider you use, we add a button to send you straight there. This proved to be so effective that we decided to turn that concept into a free tool! .
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The old, big settings page was bad. So we replaced it with ten, smaller settings pages. For you!.
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An email that arrives in your inbox every Thursday morning, without fail, isn’t a community on its own. But it can be the seed from which a community blooms, the repeatable ritual where early community members learn inside lingo and build camaraderie. Learn more in our interview.
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Introducing subscription cohort charts!. Want to see how subscribers stick with your newsletter on a weekly, monthly, annual, or per-issue cadence? . Buttondown makes it easy. (And, if I dare say, somewhat pretty.) . Check it out on your Analytics page!
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One of the most popular requests we get is audio embedding, similar to our image embedding and hosting tools. While implementing that is quite a ways away — it's a big feature, and frankly a niche one! — we do want to make it easy for people to share audio that they've uploaded
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The in-app preview to show you how your writing will be rendered has always been sub-par. This is for two reasons:. - Every browser and email client has their own inconsistencies and quirks, so it's hard to get a perfect preview — and we were slightly worried about engendering a
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There are thousands of developers-cum-bloggers out there. How do you stand out? . @samwhoo tells his story:.
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Announcing our concierge migration service. We'll move everything from your previous provider onto Buttondown if you commit to an annual plan. It's a simple three step process:. 1. Tell us what you need. We'll ask for a few details about where you're migrating from, get some.
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Hear ye! Hear ye! Our editor is better than ever. We've landed support for:. 1. Drag+drop. 2. Rich social media embeds. 3. Pull quotes. 4. Poetry!.5. Syntax highlighting. 6. Custom fonts and colors.
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tiny, tiny feature: you can now change your subscribers' email addresses in the Notes Modal by clicking on the underlined part of the header. (if they're a premium subscriber, that change will also get reflected in Stripe.)
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It's time to bump up our OSS sponsorships a bit, and @AdamChainz was an easy choice. Adam's contributions to Django are prolific, but two packages of his in particular that we couldn't live without: . - `time-machine` (a fast, pytest-friendly way to mock time).- `django-perf-rec`.
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💫You can now specify a minimum price for your pay-what-you-want newsletter! (Please do not charge $799 for your newsletter.)
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It's pretty thrilling to watch the trend of folks building out their own durable, personal presences on the web — and humbling to be a part (however small) of the movement.
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NEW: footnotes, for Fancy Mode! We've supported footnotes for a while, but only in Markdown mode — now, wherever you're writing, you can do so with as many asides as you wish. Go forth and digress all you want; litter your writing with enough marginalia to blot out the sun.
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👀 NEW ARCHIVE PAGES. faster, prettier (imho), more responsive, and with room to grow. read about 'em here:.
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One of the weirder wrinkles of running a newsletter has now been ironed out: you don’t need to supply a physical home address. Use ours instead!.
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Missed it last week, but — we just hit 2,000 followers :). Thank you everyone for nerding out about email stuff with us for the past few years. It's been an absolute blast.
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A time comes in an API's life where one needs to make a breaking change. That time has officially come, and we've introduced API versioning to handle it. As of today, we have two API versions:. 2024-07-01 and 2024-08-01. Anyone who's ever made an external API request is on the.
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Q3 roadmap (the big parts, at least):. - activitypub support.- flexible sending (send to folks tagged ‘A’ or ‘B’, send to folks tagged ‘A’ and either ‘B’ or ‘C’, et cetera).- naked mode (bring your own HTML from the builder of your choice).- migrating to `
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🤖 I am starting to think about how to architect automations. If you have hot takes on drip sequences and things of that nature, please chime in on the GitHub Issue!.
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Writing Markdown is easier than ever, thanks to our new WYSIWYG-ish toolbar:.
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fun fact that exactly 193 of you have discovered: you can re-order analytics charts.
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🌍 The analytics page (/analytics) now shows deets about the countries of your subscribers, too!
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💰 A much more graceful process of upselling regular subscribers into premium ones just launched!.
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How to build (or write, or finish) more? It starts (as all good things do, IMHO) with an email:.
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Flashback Friday, as the kids say — some screenshots from Buttondown at launch, back in 2017. I was so proud of that little light-blue pop-out! 🥲
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Satisfying a long-held source of anxiety: you can now let an author know that you're not unsubscribing, you're just moving to your RSS reader of choice. (I'm a big @feedbin fan myself.)
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Upgrading the ol' database. Buttondown's in read-only mode for the next few minutes.
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Going live this afternoon — inline detection of broken variables! I can't promise "no more sending drafts to make sure everything works", but I can at least cut down on the number a bit.
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After a whole bunch of DNS shenanigans, I'm starting to more broadly roll out subdomains for hosted archives & subscriptions. Email/DM me if you're interested!
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I know I have a, uh, _zealous_ approach to email address validation, which is why I'm pretty excited about what's going live right now: automatic fallback to double optin for addresses Buttondown has deemed invalid.
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✍️ Wrote some jank about why DKIM/SPF records are good, and how you can use them:.
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It is as good a time as any to share that we've open-sourced `tiptap-math`, our LaTeX extension for tiptap. We hope the exactly five of you in the intersection of "knows what ProseMirror is" and "knows what LaTeX is" find it useful!.
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Interested in automatically publishing your emails based on an RSS feed (or something similar?) . I’d love to hear from you: justin@buttondown.email.
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Excited to formally support Django-Rest-Framework, which powers most of Buttondown's API:.
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The monthly update for April is coming a little late this week; I’m in Paris and am opting, perhaps too-cavalierly, to spend time in catacombs rather than writing emails.
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❌ No fumbling with iframes.❌ No worrying about email clients.❌ No screenshotting . Just drop in the URL you want to share, whether its from Twitter (sorry, X) or YouTube or Vimeo or Bandcamp or _wherever_; Buttondown takes care of the rest.
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Hello! How's the new year treating everyone? Wanted to wrap up what was a fairly eventful January filled with quiet ergonomics-focused ships.
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Live now: we check to make sure all of your images are optimized before sending. Just one of the ways we try to make your life 0.035% easier.
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Going live later this week: support for non-USD paid subscriptions!
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🗺️ Newsletters hosted on custom domains now have their own sitemaps, to help placate the SEO deities a bit. (No action required — you'll get 'em automatically.)
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Tiny lil tweak: newsletters now have their own 404 pages instead of the boring ol generic Buttondown one (right).
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We are now a hip, modern dev-first tool (by which I mean you can pull up search via ⌘K).
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