Show HN: Weightless – a minimalist newsletter tool for static sites
weightless.soCollecting emails sounds easy but if you have a static site, you need to use some sort of an external service for this. Maybe I am too picky but I didn't like the available options so I built one myself.
Here's how it works:
- You create a mailing list on the landing page (weightless.so)
- It gives you a URL you can attach to a <form> tag as an action attribute
- Any time someone submits that form, you receive an email with your subscribers
Collecting emails this way is free, and if you already have a styled form, you can have this up & running in couple minutes.
I know Show HN posts shouldn't require signing up, but I do need to have an email because that's where you get your subscribers list.
One note: Weightless also allows you send mass emails to your subscribers, but that's a paid feature. You DON'T have to use it, you can use Weightless only for collecting emails, and worry about messaging them later. When you are starting out and have only a couple subscribers, you can simply email everyone manually, one by one.
A privacy policy that lists your subcontractors is probably a good idea (which necessarily exist unless you are delivering emails yourself). You are dealing with personal information.
Thanks for the feedback, just added this section to the legal page: https://i.snipboard.io/cRbeiC.jpg
Hope that will be enough for now.