Sendy pricing is wrong
This product should be more expensive as it should be targeted to professional web site owners. It should cost something like $990 per year.
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Now I paid $40. This price tag is just too silly. For me sending newsletters is 20% increase to my monthly traffic.
You should at least charge per period of time not per version. It will mean more money for you and more reliable product for us.
Multithreading - maybe you need just to use non-blocking cURL requests? In my opinion SES is the bottleneck and than slow SQL queries.
We could try this:
http://blog.rob.cx/multi-curl
For me, I would have stayed with mailchimp if they would have either based their price on email sent instead of the size of the list. I could go with the pay as you go option but then the price is just too silly, that is the main reason we installed Sendy.
I would have paid 500$ for this no problem + I would have paid 500$ more to get 4 hours of personal support with someone who has done many Amazon SES setup.
Cheers,
py
In my opinion, the one with wrong pricing is Amazon SES. 1$ for 10,000 emails is more than cheap, it's unbelievable.
I would remind you that Sendy does not deliver emails, it submits them to Amazon SES. Paying a subscription fee would probably stop me. Sendy cannot be compared to Mailchimp. It's a (fantastic) software, not a service.
Now Ben could sell support packages, I think it would be very good. He can also sell premium features, like multithreading and reseller features. I think that people using Sendy to let their clients send emails by themselves should pay a premium fee.
But in my opinion, raising Sendy's price to 500 or 1000$ would slow down this project - better to sell a lot @ cheap price instead of selling 30 licences @1000$.
In my opinion Sendy's customers are power users. Everyone else can use free tires that offer such services like mailchimp.
Power users need reliability and they will easily pay more. For that Sendy needs to use some advanced solutions. This requires skills and time. Also it's a niche product and I want it to stay.
Would love to hear from more people regarding the price.
We are hoping though that Sendy is perfect for our company newsletters, email announcements, etc since we can send out about 300k emails each month for a better cost.
I agree with those that say you can't compare this to Mailchimp. To be candid I think the mailchimp's need another offering for paying by email count versus members -- we have about 150k members but only send an email to them about every 30 days and this would be an insane cost on the "mailchimps".
Think it's too low as well. We probably would have easily paid another couple hundred without a lot of thought, maybe $249 or $349.
Agreed. Too low. $299 seems like the sweet spot. Perhaps sell a downloadable version AND a SaaS. I suspect many people don't want the hassle of managing their own servers, updates, etc. Recurring revenues is much more interesting than 1 time.
My 2 cents.