I vibe-coded MailCheap, and it's 83% cheaper
I vibe-coded beehiiv, and it's 83% cheaper. ✨✨ Introducing MailCheap.ai ✨✨ Everything you need to run a newsletter... ✍️ Editor 📅 Scheduling 📈 Stats 🌐 A website for every issue 🛡️ Deliverability guardrails 🔗 Send from your own domain (and keep your reputation) And it's not a dinosaur tool: + It's open source; you can run it for free + It's agentic; everything in the UI is available to your AI Import from beehiiv, Substack, or Mailchimp in 2 minutes. You pay for the emails you send, not for dormant subscribers. From $19/month. Oh, and no "Powered By" badge at the bottom of your emails.
Tyler Denk 🐝@denk_tweets · Oct 14, 2026every week someone tells me they’re going to vibe-code their own @beehiiv alternative over the weekend.
wishing them the best, here’s the backlog of things to make sure to include:
> 99.3% email delivery rate (industry-leading)
> team of deliverability experts with decades of…
@marclou · Oct 15, 2026
Math: 4,000 subscribers, one email a week: $19 on MailCheap vs $109 on beehiiv Lite.
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@marclou · Oct 15, 2026
MailCheap is open source. You can run it for free on your own server and customize it:
Marc Lou@marclou · Oct 10, 2026So many people asked me to make it open-source, so here you go:
MailCheap — Self-hosted newsletters on Amazon SES:
💸 $0.10 per 1,000 emails
✍️ Editor with live preview
📰 Multiple newsletters
📝 Signup forms + API
🌐 Public archive
📊 Stats & growth charts
🧹 List cleanup
📬 Bounce + spam protection
→ github.com/marclou/mailch…
92% cheaper than Beehiiv (for me).
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@marclou · Oct 15, 2026
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@marclou · Oct 15, 2026
Proudly using postshiba.com by @jessethanley to send emails (not AWS SES). The man has built an email ecosystem packaged in a super cute Japanese design. I'm reaaaaly envious of his creativity and skills 🥹 (not affiliated)
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