With the risk of being called a spammer, what do you think about my new site? (tinyletter.com)

I really want to get back into blogging (for many years starting in 2000 I ran a somewhat popular blog called Fuckedcompany.com around (google it if you're in your 20's)) and it was fun but a full-time job.

Unless you're planning on making blogging your full time job, you're not going to build an audience, which means nobody will see any of your subsequent blog entries.

Twitter helps...because even if I don't tweet all month, my followers are still there. But it seems to me that having an email newsletter is still the best solution for someone in my position.

Sure, we're all already buried under an avalanche of email, and half of it goes into the spam folder. Nevertheless, when I have a large number of email addresses from folks who trust me and want to hear what I've got to say, I'd argue I have the most direct line to them than any other method of publishing.

So I spent a lazy rainy Sunday afternoon today building this: http://tinyletter.com

Thoughts?

Generally, on this site, people aren't going to complain if you promote your own stuff, "within reason". I mean, if you took the time to create it, and link to it like this, it's not a problem.

Looks nicely done, although I don't feel like actually going through and creating it.

One thing might be to watch out for people grabbing 'nice' URL's...

Firstly great idea! Am I right in thinking this is comparable to a simplified Aweber?

Also I would suggest you have a demo page, for example where it says:

"People will be able to subscribe at: http://tinyletter.com/your-newsletter "

It would be good if that link actually worked,

Free is value destroying in newsletters, because I think you will have your sending IPs spam blacklisted by a payday loan affiliate sending spam through your service prior to me sending out my Halloween email to my carefully cultivated opt in list. Charge to keep out the riffraff.

With a few lines of code you can easily incorporate tinyMCE wysiwyg editor.

Take it from somebody in the email marketing biz: sending emails in bulk is a massive headache. You need to worry about IP Reputation and whitelisting. If you plan on sending from a single IP, you will get banned.

Smtp.com provides good dedicated IPs meant for email delivery. Best thing to do is get a new IP and send about half a million emails per month / per IP.

Also, charge for the service. It's the only way to weed out actual Viagra selling spammers. Even if you keep it at $5 a year and don't get any income from it...it will be more beneficial to your users who are doing the right thing

I think you're on to something. There are a few sites that let you run newsletters (Constant Contact is one I've used) but they are just terrible to use.

I think you're going to find out pretty quickly you'll need to charge though, especially if you want any of your emails to actually get delivered. That's a non-trivial problem and involves actual labor to prevent spammers from using the service. Just making someone verify their identity by putting in a credit card will help a lot.

I'd include a demo on the front page. I know it is a simple concept, you know it is a simple concept, but you have to show your users.

What are you using on the back end? PMTA?

great idea. I was looking for something as simple as that & I'd pay $5 or $10 to use it :)

Some testing feedback:

•Needs an option to save a draft email badly. •Would like some two column •Not getting my opt-in emails or preview emails quickly.

Like others, I'm also very worried about spammers getting in and shutting this down quickly.

Other than that, it's uber simple! Very nice!

ShowHN is a lot shorter than your title, and it'd let you put your site name in the submission text.

looks good