I got tired of paying more every time my email list grew, so I'm building QeakFlow
After months of research, talking to small business owners, and reading countless discussions here and on Reddit, I finally launched the first landing page for QeakFlow.
The idea came from one recurring frustration:
Why does every email marketing platform become more expensive just because your subscriber list grows?
Many small businesses don't need a CRM, AI features, landing page builders, or dozens of integrations. They just want a simple way to send newsletters at a predictable price.
That's what I'm building:
• Flat monthly pricing
• Bring your own SMTP (keep control of your sender reputation)
• Simple campaign management
• GDPR-friendly
• Built for small businesses, not enterprise teams
The product is still in development, and I'm currently looking for beta users to help shape it.
If this sounds like something you'd use, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
This really resonates, I'm building in a totally different category but from the exact same "why am I paying for 40 features to use one" frustration. One thing to watch with flat pricing though: the single huge sender whose volume blows past your flat price while your revenue stays flat, that one case can quietly eat your margin, so a soft cap or a second tier keeps the "predictable price" promise without the downside. Bring-your-own-SMTP is a smart move too, it pushes deliverability cost and sender reputation onto the user, which is exactly how you stay cheap. Who do you picture as the main switcher, someone leaving Mailchimp on price, or someone who never wanted a full suite to begin with?
The predictable-price idea is easy to understand, but “small businesses” can mean very different email habits. Are you looking for your first beta users from one specific group — newsletters, local businesses, or ecommerce stores — or are you deliberately keeping it broad to learn where the frustration is strongest?
I like that you're challenging the pricing model instead of assuming the feature set is the problem.
I'll be interested to see what beta users consistently describe as the reason they switch. That tends to reveal whether the product is really about predictable pricing, sender control, simplicity, or something else entirely.