Duke: Buttondown has roughly 250 to 260 paying customers
Justin Duke · ButtonDown Email Is Niche Mailchimp, Hits $5k in MRR · Aug 23, 2020 · at 12:09
Justin Duke, founder of newsletter platform Buttondown, shares the product's paying subscriber numbers with Nathan Latka.
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“So right now around 252 160 paying customers.”
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