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Sundog Education replaced Mailchimp

Now: Self-hosted Sendy on AWS Lightsail + SES, running 6 months

$2,328net saved per year, after running costs

Frank Kane exported the mailing lists out of Mailchimp into Sendy, a one-time-purchase newsletter app running on a Lightsail instance sending through Amazon SES, because the monthly plan wasn't earning its keep.

Receipt #02662026-04-09

Sundog Education

Old billMailchimp, $200 a month
$200
NowAWS: Lightsail instance, $5 a month
$5
NowAWS: Amazon SES, under $1 a month
$1
Net saved per month$194/mo

Thank you for not renewing

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Timeline

  1. Replaced2026-04-09

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