MailChimp
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MailChimp is an email sending service that some IndieWeb sites use to automatically send content to subscribers from a feed file.
MailChimp is known for marketing services like email and SMS campaigns and provides website and form building features. It acquired TinyLetter in 2011 before shutting it down in 2024. It was acquired itself by Intuit in 2021.
- 2021-09-13 : Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp (archived)
Features
Free tier
See their pricing page for the latest limits.
- Up to 1,000 emails per month
- Forms and landing pages
- Integrations with external services
- RSS-to-email
How
Publish with RSS-to-email
The RSS-to-email feature allows people without a reader to automatically get updates from your site in their email. See their official help page for instructions.
Subscribe with RSS
Each newsletter has a unique RSS feed of issue titles (no contents).
If you are already subscribed by email, click "View email in browser" at the bottom of an issue. Then at the top right of the web version is an RSS link.
If you are not subscribed by email, it is a bit more difficult but you can construct the RSS link from the URL of the subscribe form, or from an embedded form element, as described in:
- 2023-03-18 : How to Subscribe to Mailchimp Newsletters With RSS (archived)
- Their general RSS link pattern is:
[region].campaign-archive.com/feed?u=[identifer]&id=[list_id]
IndieWeb Examples
Anthony Ciccarello is migrating to MailChimp for his RSS-triggered email newsletter