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Public postmortem: API availability issues
Our public postmortem for the incident on November 6th, 2025.
Open source funding in 2025
(Still) investing in the software that makes Buttondown possible
Notification inbox
A unified inbox for comments, conversations, mentions, and webmentions.
Custom Icons
How to add custom icons to your newsletter
How Kieron Gillen uses Buttondown to market his comics
Kieron Gillen uses Buttondown to share his comics, musings, and life experiences.
Managed DNS
Buttondown can manage your DNS records for you
How Kalina Silverman helps readers make meaningful connections
Kalina makes Big Talk with her newsletter.
Analytics on /home
Embed your favorite analytics on your homepage
How Octopus Think shares business updates using Buttondown
Octopus Think creators, Sarah and Matt, use Buttondown to connect with customers, share updates about their apps, and other projects they are working on.
Send by engagement date
Send by last open or last click date
NaNoWriMo and the creative power of looming fear
A cross between a marathon and a literary block party.
A cleaner paid subscriptions experience
Improvements to the paid subscriptions setup experience
Custom button colors
You can change the color of your buttons
HMAC-based security for webhooks
Verify webhook authenticity with HMAC signatures for outgoing webhooks.
Bulk notes
Bulk add notes to your subscribers
Drag-and-drop columns
Reorder columns in your dashboard by dragging and dropping
Public postmortem: duplicate sends
Our public postmortem for Incident #0021.
Why Flock Theatre loves Buttondown's personal touch
I love that it is such a personal company, with actual people behind it.
How Jenny Zhang inspires readers to show up for their community
Jenny uses Buttondown to inspire readers to show up and show out for their communities.
Portal login
Subscribers can access the Portal through the main login
Emailwall and Webwall components
Fancy mode blocks to show content only in email or only on the web.
How to publish your blog and newsletter in one click
A Rube Goldberg machine for your ideas
Newsletter QR code
Your newsletter now has a QR code
The ChatGPT for music that launched in 1994
Email was the user interface for the first AI recommendation engines.
Czech localization
Buttondown is now available in Czech.
How Giuseppe Sollazzo shares data-powered stories with readers
Giuseppe Sollazzo uses Buttondown to share data-powered stories with his readers.
UTM via forms
Add UTM params to subscribers via form
Better undeliverable heuristic
A better heuristic for undeliverable subscribers
The email list cleaning conundrum
The one-third rule from horticulture can apply to your email lists, too.