Best practices on pre-launch emails
We've published a new blog post: > The trickiest thing is keeping people's interest in the interim between announcing and launching your product. Read it here!
2025-05-22
Revamped email draft flow
New API changes for Buttondown
When we first launched Buttondown's API, we actually had three separate email endpoints: /v1/drafts, /v1/scheduled_emails, and /v1/emails, because we had...
New API changes for Buttondown
TL;DR requests.get( "https://api.buttondown.email/v1/subscribers", params={ "date": ["2025-01-01", "2025-03-31"], // [!code --] "date__start": "2025-01-01",...
New API changes for Buttondown
You can now request newsletter exports in JSON format by specifying the new format field when creating an export. The old CSV functionality remains...
Markdown is unformatted formatting
We've published a new blog post: > How early computer users created the longest lasting formatting style, out of spare characters. Read it here!
New API changes for Buttondown
We've expanded the Newsletter API to include the following new fields that allow for further programmatic customization of your newsletter: css - Custom CSS...
2025-05-14
Analytics for sad stuff
2025-05-09
Share your newsletters on Are.na
E-COM: The $40 million USPS project to send email on paper
We've published a new blog post: > The USPS offered to print your email for you. Only spammers said yes. Read it here!
Updates from April
(Are you proud of us for abstaining from the “It’s gonna be May” pun? We hope so.) Filter subscribers based on UTM parameters Who cares what UTM actually...
Attachments helped email go global
We've published a new blog post: > Sending files via email might be on the decline, but its history is more important than ever. Read it here!
2025-05-01
Localization
This is not a newsletter accessibility checklist
We've published a new blog post: > It's a starting point with a few early guideposts. Read it here!
2025-04-21
Configurable Firewall
2025-04-18
Quickly spot suspicious domains or IPs
The community powered email newsletter
We've published a new blog post: > The best way to share community discussions is a newsletter. Read it here!
2025-04-17
Easily filter a subscriber's activity
New API changes for Buttondown
We've expanded the EmailStatus enum to include the following new statuses: throttled - The email is being sent out slowly to ensure deliverability. resending...
2025-04-15
Automatic periodic exports
