Who it's for
Built for small software teams. Not marketing departments.
day3 is email marketing and transactional email for people whose actual job is shipping product. If that's you, find your situation below.
What all three have in common
A startup, a solo developer and a SaaS team look different on an org chart and identical on an invoice. Four things are true of all of them, and they're the reason day3 is priced and shaped the way it is.
- Your list grows faster than your sending does
- Signups arrive in bursts. Sending is gated by how often you ship something worth announcing. Per-subscriber pricing charges for the first curve; day3 charges for the second.
- Email is a channel, not a department
- Nobody on the team is a marketer. The tool has to be usable on the afternoon you need it, without a platform to learn first or a sales call before you can send.
- The app already sends email
- Password resets, receipts, magic links. Running those through the same verified domain and the same monthly allowance as your updates means one reputation to keep clean instead of two.
- Getting compliance wrong is expensive
- One-click unsubscribe, recorded consent, automatic suppression of bounces and complaints. These are not features you want to discover you needed after Gmail starts filing you as spam.
Questions
- Who is day3 built for?
- Small software teams who send product updates: startups, indie developers and solo founders, and SaaS teams shipping release notes. The common thread is a list that grows faster than the sending schedule, and no marketer on staff.
- Who is day3 not for?
- Marketing teams running funnels, and agencies managing client accounts. There's no A/B testing, no CRM, no landing pages, no multi-account layer, and automations are designed but not shipped. If you need a marketing platform, buy a marketing platform.
- Do I need to be a developer to use day3?
- No. Verifying a domain is the only technical step, and connecting Cloudflare means day3 publishes the DNS records for you. The API and MCP server are there if you want them, not a prerequisite for sending.
- Does day3 work for a non-software business?
- It'll send email perfectly well, but the product is shaped around product updates and transactional mail. If you're running seasonal promotions, e-commerce flows or lead nurture, a generalist tool fits better.
Where to go next
- How send-based pricing worksWhat counts as a send, what happens at the monthly cap, and why list size never moves the bill.Read on
- PricingNine plans from $1/mo for 1,000 emails to $220/mo for 1,000,000. Unlimited subscribers on all of them.Read on
- All featuresEverything day3 does, and the things it deliberately doesn't.Read on
- DeliverabilityAuthenticated domains, one-click unsubscribe, and automatic suppression of bounces and complaints.Read on
- All comparisonsHow day3's send-based model stacks up against the tools that price by contact count.Read on
- GuidesPractical writing on deliverability, authentication, compliance, and email pricing.Read on