Updates from October
Custom button text
You can now write whatever you want inside the buttons in your newsletter. Invite subscribers to pre-order your book, sign up for your app, join your Patreon, anything (legal)!
Open your email editor, switch to Fancy mode, then type /custom to add and format whatever crazy call to action you want.
Add idempotency keys to your emails
Someone on Hacker News requested the email equivalent of Stripe-style idempotency. So we built it! Now, when you repeat an API request multiple times, the process only fires once.
If you send your newsletter via the API, this upgrade prevents you from accidentally sending the same email to your list a bunch of times or creating a bunch of tags that you don’t actually want.
Head over to the idempotency keys documentation to get started.
From the blog
Suddenly becoming responsible for a brand new, fresh out of the oven human sure will put a dent in your publishing cadence–but not your priorities! So it’s fitting that one of this month’s only two articles was about finding your (newsletter’s) North Star.
It’s easy to get sucked into the idea that you need your tips, tricks, trends, and hacks to rise to the top of the algorithmic flotsam. Often, though, deeper, more long-term connections come from shining a spotlight on a project adjacent to yours that’s doing something novel and interesting.
Other stuff
There’s now a Buttondown component in Framer! Check out the step-by-step guide to embed a subscription form in your site.
We’ve added an autocomplete function for a faster way to find and insert links to your previous newsletters after typing two square brackets–try it out!
You asked for it: Multiple Buttondown event types can now trigger a single webhook. Learn more in the Events and Webhooks documentation.