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beehiiv switch-ready: everything needed before inviting beehiiv switchers #79
Description
Background
People are leaving beehiiv after a ~42% price rise (e.g. Nevo David, Postiz founder: x.com/wickedguro/status/2111362653004140600). They mostly want MCP, a scheduler and their own SES, but they fear warm-up and need to bring their list with them. MailCheap and others are already pitching in those threads. This issue tracks everything needed before we invite beehiiv switchers to app.sendlit.app. Audit: 19 Oct 2026 against main 7ce6795.
Already in place: scheduled broadcasts, MCP at api.sendlit.app/mcp with broadcast/contact tools, one-click unsubscribe (#55), mailing-address footer, suppression list, and bounce/complaint handling for SES (#58), Mailgun, SendGrid, Postmark and Resend.
Blockers (must ship before inviting)
Sub-issues: #38 CSV import, #59 MCP key management (fix in PR #78), #66 billing on main, #67 warm-up guide + daily caps, #75 hosted abuse prevention (with #71, #72, #73, #74), #51 send-rate limit, #41 exclude filter ignored, #34 test send, #35 plain-text part.
Not tracked as issues:
- Legal pages on sendlit.app (FrontLit content): Terms and Privacy currently empty; add Terms, Privacy, Acceptable Use / anti-spam policy and DPA, linked from the footer
- Rajat verifies self-serve signup on app.sendlit.app with a fresh email
- Merge PR docs: add SECURITY.md #77 (SECURITY.md) and turn on GitHub private vulnerability reporting
- Merge PR fix(mcp): deny API key management to team API keys #78 (MCP key fix)
Week one after inviting
Sub-issues: #25 auto-pause on bounce/complaint rates, #40 unsubscribe on complaint, #27 signup form + double opt-in, #63 web version of issues, #4 SPF/DKIM/DMARC guidance, #68 migration guides, #70 SECURITY.md, #69 status page, #47 Reply-To, #76 Postmaster/SNDS reputation, #5 warm-up scheduler.
- Tag
v0.1.0(publishes Docker image) with changelog
Acceptance criteria
- All blocker sub-issues closed
- A beehiiv CSV export can be imported end to end with statuses mapped correctly
- A new account can sign up, connect SES, send a test, schedule a broadcast and pay
- Legal pages live and linked from the footer
- Week-one sub-issues closed or scheduled
Activity
4 remaining items
fix(audience): apply excludeFilter to broadcasts and sequences
clbotdev commentedon Oct 25, 2026
Production run on app.sendlit.app (25 Oct): new account
hi+testrun1signed up, connected its own Amazon SES, scheduled a broadcast, and it was delivered (1/1 sent, 0% bounces, 0.00% complaints). Test sends were checked end to end under #34. Payment was checked with Dodo test-mode purchases on QA (Starter checkout, upgrades to Pro and Business); production checkout is live (catalog revision 2). Remaining: tagv0.1.0with a changelog (week-one item).clbotdev commentedon Oct 25, 2026
Done: SendLit is ready to invite beehiiv switchers. All blocker and week-one sub-issues are closed, the legal pages are live and linked from the footer, private vulnerability reporting is on, and a new account ran the full flow on production. The only open checklist item, tagging
v0.1.0, moves to #135.