I got tired of paying $500/month just to give my users an email editor

Simon Gustavsson — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:43:18 +0000

Every SaaS product eventually hits the same wall: users want to send emails, and they want to design them themselves. So you go looking for an embeddable email editor.

Then you see the pricing.

Unlayer starts at $250/month. Beefree SDK at $2,500/month. Chamaileon is "contact us". For a bootstrapped product, that's often more than your entire infrastructure bill.

So I built Maillune.

What it is

A drag-and-drop email editor you embed as a single web component. Drop one tag into your app and your users get a full visual email builder — no iframe gymnastics, no proprietary lock-in.

<maillune-editor></maillune-editor>

Works with React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, or plain JS. The output is clean HTML you own.

Why a web component

Every SDK in this space ships as a React-only package or an iframe you have no control over. A web component works everywhere, stays out of your framework's state, and doesn't fight your existing styles.

Free to start

I'm a solo founder building this alongside a full-time job. The goal is simple pricing that makes sense at small scale, not enterprise contracts before you've shipped a single feature.

https://maillune.com

Would love to hear from anyone who's run into this problem before, what made you end up building your own editor instead of using an SDK?

DEV Community: Simon Gustavsson

I got tired of paying $500/month just to give my users an email editor

What it is

Why a web component

Free to start