In the past year I've been evaluating newsletter management solutions to pair with a #Drupal platform that I've been working on.

I need a self-hosted solution and I've been hearing some really good things about #Mautic. I went straight to it since both Drupal and Mautic are Symfony based applications and I liked the idea of being able to customize it to suit my needs better.

Mautic is impressive, but I decided that it's overkill if all you want to do is manage a mailing list and send newsletters. The amount of effort it takes from installing it to sending out your first bare bones newsletter is enormous.

Instead I'm going to go with #MailCoach, which was recommended to me a year ago by @michael. MailCoach is beautifully designed, is easy to use, and was a breeze to setup.

Mautic is a fully qualified Marketing Automation Suite. If you're not sure what that means, it's definitely too much solution for you.

#WebDev

Working on a scope for a hybrid @statamic and #laravel site, and take advantage of Eloquent, @duncanmcclean’s Runway… and maybe #inertiajs or potentially #livewire - haven’t decided which fits better for this project.

Oh and some integration with #stripe with Laravel Cashier, plus #MailCoach for some email marketing too.

But wowee I was on the hunt for a neat little project and this is it!