marclou/mailcheap
Newsletters where you pay for the emails you send, not for dormant subscribers, at a fraction of the price of beehiiv and the like. Open source: self-host it, or use mailcheap.ai.
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MailCheap Newsletters where you pay for the emails you send, not for dormant subscribers. A fraction of the price of beehiiv and the like. Website · API docs · Sign up for MailCheap Cloud MailCheap is a newsletter app: write an issue, send it to your list, publish it on the web, from the dashboard or from your AI agent. This repository is the whole app. Self-host it with your own Amazon SES or PostShiba account, or use MailCheap Cloud, which runs this same code. All names and addresses in the screenshots are made up. MailCheap Cloud is this repository with MAILCHEAPCLOUD=true, which adds open sign-up, plans and Stripe billing. Only active subscribers count toward a plan, not the ones list cleanup marked dormant. Its marketing site (the landing, pricing and legal pages) isn't part of the open source. Every change to the app ships to both. With your own…
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- Features
- MailCheap Cloud or self-hosted
- Self-hosting
- What you need
- Environment variables
- 1. Database
- 2. Deploy
- 3. Who can sign in
- 4. Email provider
- Amazon SES
- PostShiba
- 5. QStash
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What this repository does
Newsletters where you pay for the emails you send, not for dormant subscribers, at a fraction of the price of beehiiv and the like. Open source: self-host it, or use mailcheap.ai.
Repository facts
- Owner
- marclou
- Primary language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 1,193
- Forks
- 300
- Open issues + pull requests
- 11
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-10T12:55:36.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-16T14:43:11.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: ai-agents, amazon-ses, beehiiv-alternative, email, email-marketing, mailchimp-alternative, mcp, mcp-server, mongodb, newsletter, nextjs, self-hosted, substack-alternative
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