A little story….

In the last two days I have moved my newsletter email list of 7000 people away from Aweber, a service similar to Mailchimp. They decided to match Mailchimp’s prices so my monthly bill jumped from $50/month to $130/month. That’s 160% increase, literally overnight!!

After a full rage quit, I briefly considered paying MailChimp, but its way too expensive, I don’t need any of the extra “features”, and the constant upselling is painful. So I decided to try and build something myself and eventually landed on Sendy, which I paid around $60 for, as a one-off licence payment.

After two days work, I now have a Sendy instance setup on my website subdomain and it sends the emails via AWS SES. I send about 3 email newsletters out per month, each one around 7000 emails. The first went out last night and the bill from AWS was $0.32. So my total monthly cost will be about $1, and I’m not paying for the number of ‘subscribers’. Compared to $130, that is a 99.23% saving!! Literally insane.

Proof of work and hosting your own shit wins again. It’s also a good example of where technology can be used for extortionate levels of value extraction, but also massive value gains if you do it yourself. I also pray for the day when self-hosting a cloud becomes much easier and more reliable so I’m not relying on Amazon (email) and Google (website, via an intermediary) to make this setup work.

#proofofwork #sendy #photography #value

Nostr makes you value a sat.

True or false?

#zap

#meme #memes #memestr #plebchain

I need graphics for nostr billboards!

Make one and it could be the one picked to go up in one of the following cities;

LANSING MI

DETROIT MI

CHICAGO IL

ATLANTA GA

MIAMI FL

DALLAS TX

LOS ANGELES CA

LAS VEGAS NV

BOISE ID

Here are the graphic sizes needed;

1400×400

1200×400

980×600

840×400

208×720

I need graphics for nostr billboards!

Make one and it could be the one picked to go up in one of the following cities;

LANSING MI

DETROIT MI

CHICAGO IL

ATLANTA GA

MIAMI FL

DALLAS TX

LOS ANGELES CA

LAS VEGAS NV

BOISE ID

Here are the graphic sizes needed;

1400×400

1200×400

980×600

840×400

208×720

Well that’s a nice thing to wake up to. GM ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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PSA: Since your nsec is one and only way to get your nostr identity, don’t copy/paste it, don’t view it on a screen, don’t take screenshots of it or any derivatives of it (only public part is OK, i.e., npub), or don’t think of it.

TSA just saved my aircraft from my normal sized toothpaste. These heroes don’t get paid enough.

#introductions

I've been using X for less than 2 years, and struggling with impressions. I've been told to check it out over here, so here I am.

I am 5+ years carnivore.

Founder of Eat Meat NZ.

I have a website full of free resources including a Getting Started guide for World Carnivore Month. The link is in my profile.