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Introducing Canvas – a new way to build emails

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I've been using Campaign Monitor since 2007 and I am happy to see they're still out on top. They've consistently had a great product right from the start and Canvas is another massive step in the right direction for the future of email.

I think it's game on again with Mailchimp. I used Canvas this morning and it is leaps and bounds better than anything else out there (especially the Mailchimp builder which is its closest competitor). You can see a lot of hard work and effort has gone into this builder, really nice work.

Nice! As another company in email, I know how difficult this can be to build. We'll have something like this at sendwithus.com soon. Kudos to the CampaignMonitor team :)

Kudos to Campaign Monitor. This is an ambitious project in that it's an opinionated, reductionist approach to building newsletters. The UX shown in the video is awesome.

I can't tell you how happy it makes me to read that comment. It's exactly what we were shooting for, so thanks.

After having a play with the product I am very impressed. Some very smooth UX touches and in Chrome on Windows everything runs very smoothly. Simple but very effective. Well done to the team at Campaign Monitor!

All of these comments look so gamed.

I agree they look that way until you start looking at the accounts posting them. That being said a lot of people send newsletters, and a lot of people use MailChimp (we do). MailChimp has been releasing a lot of UI changes lately, including a new editor that tries to accomplish what is shown in the Canvas video, albeit not very well.

Yeah quite surprising to see positive comments on HN, right? While I haven't tried this new editor from Campaign Monitor I can certainly understand why people are happy with their service. Their old content editor was really good and this seems like an improvement.

I can't tell if you understand parent's comment and are playing along or genuinely missed the point...

I can't tell if you understand my comment and are playing along or genuinely missed the point...

Does it also include a plaintext alternative? Mail I receive without a plaintext alternative goes straight into the spam bin unread. Saves a lot of time!

That would be unrelated to this feature which is for designing the HTML and inserting content. But yeah I am pretty sure CM sends multipart email with plain text as well. The plain text is then generated from the content in the HTML.

This looks amazing, much better than the current Mailchimp newsletter builder. Looking forward to trying it out!

As a new MC user, it's easy to see this looks better, though a free Basic would go a long way for me at this moment. Having eyes ≠ gamed comments ;)

Looks awesome! Made me start trying to think of reasons to send out a newsletter. So far, no luck, but maybe I'll think of something. :)

Wow, nice to see some competition in the email newsletter space. How does the rest of Campaign Monitor compare to MailChimp?

Haha. Look at all these obviously paid comments.

I only wish we had of thought of that ;) No paid comments here, we didn't submit the news either. Just happy customers.

The ones I see all come from well-established accounts with decent karma. Could be that they were intentionally building up those accounts over time in order to sell out, but I'm skeptical.

Kind of wish HN had a downvote for these.

It does. You just don't have enough karma for it.

Seriously guys, downvote for pointing out that HN has downvotes for comments and that the user obviously doesn't have enough karma for it (501). Stay classy HN.

Haha. Look at that obviously competitor comment.

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