Hello hello! I hope you had a lovely April.
What's new
No big headline features this month, as I spend most of my time building out automations. (Interested in giving them a test run? Reply to this email!)
Instead, lots of small-ish improvements that I'm quite proud of:
- Your newsletter is now 3x faster
- Search results are less terrible to navigate
- Auto-generated preheaders/descriptions, courtesy of ChatGPT
- Support for Tiktok and Spotify embeds in your emails
What's coming
In May, you can expect:
- Support for automations. Whether you want to call them "drip sequences" or "welcome sequences" or "activations" or whatever, the ability to send one or more emails to a subscriber in response to an event (say, a new tag or a premium subscription) has been by far the biggest request over the past few years.
- Improvements to automatic share images, which was also on the docket for April but then I got distracted by other, shinier things.
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As always...
Buttondown owes its existence to you, dear reader. I work on the things that make sense because enough users tell me about them; Buttondown has grown not because of any VC-subsidized marketing blitz but because people like it enough to tell other people to give it a shot.
If you think there's something that needs to be improved — or, even better, if there's just something you wish was improved — reply to this email because I want to hear more!