Only because it's part of the AppSumo family...
As someone who has been looking for an email marketing LTD, this obviously checks that box, however, it is still lacking in many features, none of which I'm 100% sure are coming because, you know, no roadmap...they claim it's to protect themselves from the competition, but honestly, there are many features missing compared to the competition that I don't think they're all that interested.
The Pros:
1. Part of the AppSumo family, so I can at least trust it'll stick around
2. Unlimited monthly sends to your subscriber list
3. RSS Feed
The Cons:
1. No SendFox generated Templates
2. No blocks
( I can sort of forgive these two, but I know for many others, these are pain points as they're accustomed to these types of features offered by competitors)
3. Forms and Landing Pages feel very outdated - no offense, but I would never put one of these on my site, especially when either builders or plugins offer a much nicer, polished UX.
4. No HTML editor. I feel as though this should have been added from Phase 1. If this is truly branded as a email marketing/automation platform built for content creators, it's really hard to add great content to emails without this...
4b. When I inserted an image into the current environment, I'm not able to resize it in any way. I don't know if this is a bug, or just how it's coded at the moment, but that's really frustrating. I have to create a version of an image specifically sized for every email I send. I don't want to have to create multiple copies of one image if it's avoidable. Many platforms are able to handle resizing images.
5. Contacts and Lists don't play nice together within SendFox. If a Contact is added manually, there's no way to easily add it to a List. Why doesn't it just have: "First Name", "Last Name", "Email", "List"(+Create New List)? The potential workaround I thought I could at the very least do (but actually can't) is to export all of my contacts, filter out which ones don't have a tag/list associated with them, create a new CSV, then upload that into a List, but when you export your contacts, they don't have a column for which lists they belong to...so basically I have contacts that live inside contacts but aren't associated with a list.
5b. I really had the UX when dealing with Lists. When you click on the List's name, you are directed to editing the list, as in, uploading new contacts to the list. In order to actually see the contacts in the list, you have to click on the Subscriber number...that just seems counter-intuitive. I would recommend getting rid of clicking on Subscriber/Unsubscriber and when you click on the List name, you're taken to all of the contacts, then inside there you can filter for your Subscribers/Unsubscribes, and have the ability to edit the list in the dropdown next to "Add Contact," which should let you select contacts from contacts that already exist, such as my orphan ones, give me some way of assigning them a list. Or at least a way that's intuitive
To be continued