Ask HN: $1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you did to market it?

Re:Ask HN: $1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you... by jonathanbull on Monday October 17, 2016 @05:43AM (#12723699)

https://emailoctopus.com - for cheap email marketing via SES.

Submitted to the usual channels (HN, PH, Reddit) and saw a spike in traffic. But what really worked was not charging anything for 3 months - people are much more keen to tweet/blog about something if it's free. They're also a lot more forgiving if they run into a bug (of which I used to have many!).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: $1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you... by jackpointnl on Monday October 17, 2016 @06:28AM (#12723858)

Could you build something like this but for transactional email? I send i trough SES but I dont have send, open and read stats.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: $1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you... by jonathanbull on Monday October 17, 2016 @08:00AM (#12724259)

At the moment we're focusing on the marketing side (vs transactional), but it's something we've considered for the future. Hopefully Amazon will beat us to it!

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: $1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you... by iamben on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:52AM (#12734289)

I really love the idea of this - and I'm fully on board when you get custom fields!

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: $1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you... by deecewan on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @06:11PM (#12739194)

I built something like this a while back. Used SES to do transactional/marketing emails with custom fields.

I should find out what happened to that project.

[ Parent | on HN ]