# Funding Proposal: Buttondown.email Basic Subscription $9/mo

**URL:** <https://farmos.discourse.group/t/funding-proposal-buttondown-email-basic-subscription-9-mo/1401>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** funding-proposal\
**Created:** [November 11, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/funding-proposal-buttondown-email-basic-subscription-9-mo/1401 "2022-11-11T14:55:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![mstenta](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/farmos.discourse.group/mstenta/32/4_2.png) [@mstenta](https://farmos.discourse.group/u/mstenta)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/funding-proposal-buttondown-email-basic-subscription-9-mo/1401/1 "2022-11-11T14:55:10Z")

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# Funding Proposal

**Title:** [Buttondown.email](https://buttondown.email/) Basic Subscription  
**Submitted by:** Michael Stenta  
**Cost:** $9/month ([Pricing — Buttondown](https://buttondown.email/pricing))

## Description

We’ve talked about setting up an official farmOS newsletter (separate from the existing [Farmier.com](http://Farmier.com) newsletter), for community updates.

Buttondown.email is a newsletter service that is [simple](https://docs.buttondown.email/), [affordable](https://buttondown.email/pricing), and [automateable](https://docs.buttondown.email/api-reference/introduction). (thanks @jgaehring for suggesting!)

They offer a free tier up to 100 subscribers, so I started an account to try it out and so far I’m loving it!

> **[farmOS.org](https://buttondown.com/farmOS)**
>
> farmOS is a web-based application for farm management, planning, and record keeping. It is developed by a community of farmers, developers, researchers, and organizations with the aim of providing a standard platform for agricultural data collection...

The Basic subscription is $9/mo, allows up to 1000 subscribers, and enables additional paid features including API access, analytics, CSS customization and more.

In the farmOS chat we were brainstorming some ideas for API automation that would be fun to experiment with: [https://irc.farmos.org/bot/log/farmOS/2022-11-11#T84654](https://irc.farmos.org/bot/log/farmOS/2022-11-11#T84654)

I propose we subscribe for the Basic plan and give this a go!

## Poll

Do you support funding this proposal?

_Poll ([view on site](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/funding-proposal-buttondown-email-basic-subscription-9-mo/1401/1))_

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**Author:** ![mstenta](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/farmos.discourse.group/mstenta/32/4_2.png) [@mstenta](https://farmos.discourse.group/u/mstenta)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 9:04pm UTC](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/funding-proposal-buttondown-email-basic-subscription-9-mo/1401/2 "2023-02-25T21:04:29Z")

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We decided to approve this on one of the recent monthly calls… so we’re good to go on this whenever we want to. I figured we can wait until we’re ready… maybe after we have a Blog-\>Newsletter API integration like we discussed. Added that to the agenda for the next monthly call…

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**Author:** ![mstenta](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/farmos.discourse.group/mstenta/32/4_2.png) [@mstenta](https://farmos.discourse.group/u/mstenta)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 8:19pm UTC](https://farmos.discourse.group/t/funding-proposal-buttondown-email-basic-subscription-9-mo/1401/3 "2024-02-07T20:19:10Z")

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I went ahead and started our basic subscription. I paid for a whole year, which saves $18 ($90 for the year instead of $9/mo). We have over 200 subscribers already, so we wouldn’t have been able to send anything on the free tier anyway. Now we can get up to 1000! 🚀