A big shout-out to the Fluent team for creating such a nice WordPress product suite. Today, I sent my first email to a new list of 1,400 people who signed up on livingwithprompts.com using a @Fluent_Forms form. Their data was saved securely on my own website. I'm using their ToSend SMTP solution (also from fluent), and I designed and sent the campaign email via @FluentCRM. The whole process has been flawless. Soon, my new community will be hosted on using @FluentCommunity and the payment wills be managed using @FluentCartWP with Stripe. This is not a sponsored post. I'm just becoming more convinced that keeping all of the data on your own website is a great idea for ownership, analyses and cost reduction. I'm going to save thousands of dollars this year by not having to pay big amounts for ConvertKit and Circle. And could I have "vibe coded" these plugins myself? Sure, but why would I? Many of these plugins are a few hundred dollars LTD. If you vibe code them yourself, you're going to spent days prompting that you could use to work on something else, and then you have to maintain the software yourself. It just doesn't make sense to generate everything just because it is possible. It's not cool to re-invent the wheel. That's why I still use plugins, especially for critical infrastructure. For such complex websites it just makes so much sense to use WordPress, instead of going outside and bolting 10 different systems together just to use a newer system. And having 1 company like Fluent who just builds a whole suite of products which work great together is blessing and saves me so many headaches.