This looks great but delivery via Amazon SES is a problem. I'm an academic and I tried to set up a work newsletter like this with Listmonk recently, but SES rejected my request to relieve me of sandbox mode for unspecified 'security reasons'. Everything was set up properly, it was under a domain under my personal name, I gave links to my profile page on my university website, ample explanation about what I would do with it (one email ever few months), that I would be the only sender, but they rejected it. So in the end I've opted for a hosted solution... anyone else had similar issues?
A few years ago AWS used to be quite generous with SES. As a result it became the source of a lot of spam. Thankfully they started becoming strict since the last 2 years. This along with new features like managed warmup, multi-region sending, has made AWS SES very desirable.
While I admire social-network-friendly websites, I am afraid that performance is too bad to allow its use instead of a social network.
Indeed it is so performance sensitive, that it has blocked my region.
Would it not be better to get a static site generator from a standard Markdown posts, and thus assure it is both performant and accessible?
Been a big fan of Postcard, especially seeing how it was another success story of a solo dev making something great using RoR. I’ve been looking through the code base for only 15 mins and I’ve learnt a few things already. Thanks for making this open source!
I like minimalist self-hosted websites, great choice making Postcard open-source!
May I ask what were your biggest hurdles building the project and what's the most requested feature from your users?
I myself have been building similar project called `Open Payment Host`[1] for couple of years now, but its focused on payments. Say a self-hosted alternative for Gumroad, Buy Me a Coffee, Ko-fi etc.
Ok, I want to do this..it's past time for me to have a web home, but I am leery because I'm so non-techie. I've made note of most of the stuff I want to use, but I am hoping you can answer a really stupid question about size.
How big does the mini pc have to be to simply run a static site and newsletter?
I know I'm going to get all-sorts of comments and recently had a terrible experience with a tech bro, so please go easy on me...
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May I ask what were your biggest hurdles building the project and what's the most requested feature from your users?
I myself have been building similar project called `Open Payment Host`[1] for couple of years now, but its focused on payments. Say a self-hosted alternative for Gumroad, Buy Me a Coffee, Ko-fi etc.
[1] https://github.com/abishekmuthian/open-payment-host
I know I'm going to get all-sorts of comments and recently had a terrible experience with a tech bro, so please go easy on me...
And if you answer, thanks in advance..