---
type: podcast
authors:
  - alex-patterson
episode: 27
recording_date: April 20, 2021 3:30 PM
season: 1
published: published
podcast: CodingCat.dev
chapters_done: true
cloudinary_convert: false
cover: https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/main-codingcatdev-photo/hyopbplzvjnobn4nxe3v.png
devto: https://dev.to/codingcatdev/1-27-producing-newsletters-with-buttondown-554f
excerpt: If you are looking for a simple yet powerful way to create a newsletter checkout Buttondown! We sit down with Justin Duke to talk about how he got started working on this project.
guests:
  - justin-duke
hashnode: https://hashnode.codingcat.dev/podcast-1-27-producing-newsletters-with-buttondown
picks:
  [
    {
      author: 'alex-patterson',
      name: 'Cassidy Williams Newsletter',
      site: 'https://buttondown.email/cassidoo'
    },
    { author: 'alex-patterson', name: 'Sport Energy Gels', site: 'https://a.co/d/512vyUs' },
    { author: 'justin-duke', name: 'Celeste', site: 'https://www.celestegame.com/' },
    {
      author: 'justin-duke',
      name: 'Life and Death of Great American Cities',
      site: 'https://bookshop.org/books/the-death-and-life-of-great-american-cities-9780679741954/9780679741954'
    }
  ]
slug: 1-27-producing-newsletters-with-buttondown
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/27SydrPSZEZW0HvYfqkp5Z?si=tZu0yJrERc2hcTBQUlSCJA
start: June 23, 2021
title: Producing Newsletters with Buttondown
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyyrwCV5oGg
---

### Questions

1. Why did you start working on Buttondown?
2. What are the tools used for Buttondown? ([Running-Costs-f29729ded5494272947f656440967cbf](https://buttondown.notion.site/Running-Costs-f29729ded5494272947f656440967cbf))
   1. Mailgun
   2. Heroku
   3. Stripe
   4. Postmark
3. Is Buttondown geared towards developers having native Markdown support?
4. Storage
   1. Where is the contact data stored for subscribers?
   2. Where are the images stored?
5. Tracking
   1. It was turned off by default recently what made you come to this decision?
6. How do you test the Gmail Other Tabs?
7. What has been the most difficult part of getting the service up and running?
8. What does all this mean?
