Small businesses sending newsletters and promotional campaigns. Easy to get a first email out quickly.
Still the most recognized email tool, but many SMBs outgrow it or move on after Intuit's pricing changes.
Growing lists — pricing scales steeply. Acquired by Intuit in 2021; community reviews have soured since.
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Reviews from Reddit, Product Hunt, Hacker News & AlignAI members
I was being ripped off by Mailchimp every month simply based on the number of people on my list even though half of them hadn’t opened an email in a year.
Reddit • Solo Founder • Use case: Email marketing with inactive subscribers
Either they were too complicated, missing key features, or just didn’t fit the way I work.
Reddit • unknown • Use case: marketing automation
I thought a static page with mailchimp but they charge after 500 users and costs increase fairly quickly.
Reddit • Solo Founder • Use case: Create cheap signup page with double opt-in
I'm building a script that auto-archives inactive Mailchimp contacts to lower your monthly bill.
Reddit • Developer • Use case: Lower monthly bill by archiving inactive contacts
Mailchimp ($30/mo) → ConvertKit free tier (until we outgrew it)
Reddit • Solo Founder • Use case: Email marketing on a budget
mailchimp (overkill for transactional stuff)
Reddit • Developer • Use case: Using for transactional emails like auth, receipts, onboarding
i was paying for... mailchimp ($45/mo)... for a micro saas doing maybe 15k emails a month, this was ridiculous.
Reddit • Solo Founder • Use case: Marketing emails for a micro SaaS
I've personally used Mailchimp for newsletters for a while and have kind of just accepted its limitations.
Reddit • unknown • Use case: Creating clean, consistent newsletters and reusing email structure
60% of trial users never opened a single onboarding email... Because the emails weren't landing in the inbox.
Reddit • CTO • Use case: Onboarding email drip for trial users
I had to bolt on Mailchimp ($50+/mo) just for automation. It was a problem I kept running into.
Reddit • Developer/Solo Founder • Use case: Adding drip campaigns/onboarding sequences to Resend
I currently have to manually import contacts to keep everything in sync with Mailchimp.
Reddit • Solo Founder • Use case: Automate syncing leads from Squarespace, Google Forms, Square to Mailchimp.
cut $19k/month in 'necessary' business expenses and revenue went up. Marketing automation ($499/month) needed it for email campaigns.
Reddit • Solo Founder • Use case: Email marketing automation for campaigns
ActiveCampaign/Mailchimp often land in spam in Germany.
Reddit • Marketing Manager • Use case: Achieving high email deliverability in the EU/German market.
mailchimp 45.
Reddit • Solo Founder • Use case: Email marketing as part of SaaS stack
We've finally hit the wall with Mailchimp. The automation is too limited and the pricing keeps creeping up.
Reddit • Marketing Manager • Use case: Ecommerce automation (cart, post-purchase) and segmentation
if you accidentally upload that raw list into mailchimp... your automated emails tomorrow morning will say 'Hi René!'
Reddit • Developer • Use case: Importing customer list with special characters
I'm just so tired of hitting roadblocks and dealing with constant issues. It feels like every time I try to set up a campaign... something goes wrong.
Reddit • unknown • Use case: Setting up campaigns, integrating tools, organizing lists
The 'connect them later' part never really works cleanly. Or if it does, it breaks when one platform updates its API.
Reddit • Developer • Use case: Connecting Mailchimp to other tools (Shopify, Square) via Zapier.
created accounts on Mailchimp and Paddle (payment provider); and launched an automation.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Sending daily 5-minute email summaries to subscribers
MailChimp has commodified it for the 21st century.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Commodifying email marketing/mail merge
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