Hello hello! I hope you had a lovely June. (To my American readers: a belated happy Fourth of July; to my non-American readers, I hope you enjoyed an otherwise peaceful Tuesday!)
What's new
Goodness gracious, June was an exciting month for new features! We launched an absolute slew of stuff to improve the core Buttondown experience:
- Custom-built share images so that your web archives get more clicks and attention on your social media platform of choice.
- Support for customizing your email and subscriber lists to show just the data you care about, making it easy to stay up to date and get your work done.
- A new weekly report to let you keep tabs of incoming subscribers at a glance.
- Last but not least (okay, maybe least), RSS analytics so you can see how many folks are subscribing via apps like Feedbin or NewsBlur.
Do you like Buttondown? Please give us a review!
We've recently launched on Capterra, which is sort of like Yelp for software. If you wouldn't mind writing a quick review, you'll earn $20 and also my undying affection. (Which is perhaps worth, if not $20, at least eleven dollars)
What's coming
We are really excited for Q3: there are some fun projects in the ol' pipeline!
- Work on sponsorship tooling is continuing apace. Please reply to this email if you're interested in giving it a spin!
- The core "sending flow" (scheduling an email, choosing the audience, etc.) is going to get a bit of a facelift. (A long overdue one, to be honest!)
- Hot off the heels of support custom list views, as mentioned above — much more data for the email and subscriber lists, to make it much easier to do things like "sort all emails I sent last year by open rate" or "filter all subscribers down to the ones who have paid at least $100".
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!