Great to hear! Its still one of the major products I'm considering, that said their pricing at scale is something that feels avoidable so that's what I'm wrestling with rn.
Thanks! Mailchimp seems like the most popular option but I hear it gets really expensive at scale(that's not to say the cost isn't justified) and I'm trying to run this company as lean as possible.
Google forms is definitely something I'm considering. Thanks for the response!
It's probably something you can optimize later on, if you actually hit the scale you're concerned about? There are a lot of similar services too, at different price points. At the end of the day you're probably paying someone to send emails anyway, unless you really want to run your own SMTP too (generally not a good idea). It's a lot easier if it's just all one provider.
The main thing is handling subscriptions and unsubscribes. If you have to manually sync them (and opt-in), it's more complex, and if you don't do it well, that will impact your deliverability (i.e. if enough people mark you as spam because you don't make it easy for them to unsub, over time your domain will get treated more and more like a spammer).
1. No preference on this. It sounds convenient to do it all in one platform, but I assume that increases our exposure to potential vendor lock-in shenanigans.
2. Separate pool.
This is great, thank you, these seem like the solutions with least technical overhead for me.
I imagine the credit card charge may introduce UX friction, so perhaps we can also allow users to provide a picture of mail with their name and address.
Whats one thing that generally surprises people the most about their finances?
Also, I have alot of friends who dont put much thought into their finances. Is there a way for me, as their friend, to put in general/non-personal info about my friends and send them a summary of deals/credit/cards/savings/etc they're missing out on?
Re: surpises: I think the #1 thing is that we can find optimizations for EVERYONE. Like even people who think they've got everything in place, we can find significant tweaks/improvements.
It's the difference between keeping it all in your head vs. having a database of all the best financial products out there applied to your situation.
Re: friends - just send them over to us! The magic really happens when we can get a complete picture of someone (which doesn't take too long - the form is about 15 mins), that way we're giving them truly the best recommendations.
For example, people have come to us saying, "Where should I invest?" not understanding that they're in high-interest debt and should really focus on getting out of debt vs. trying to figure out what crypto platform to use.
