I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement

Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by ajaygoel on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @02:29PM (#19211144)

Open/click tracking doesn't add much in terms of cost. That traffic is minor. The bulk of the traffic is the transmission of the emails.

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by sciurus on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:21PM (#19211591)

I'm confused. In another comment you said "GMass doesn't actually send any emails through its own servers."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19211369

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by ajaygoel on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @04:52PM (#19212374)

Let me clarify. GMass doesn't send any email, but we do have to transmit the email to someone that does send it, hence the bandwidth costs.

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by ttty on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @08:13PM (#19213671)

If it's client side, where does this communication happen?

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by selflesssieve on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:31PM (#19211673)

It composes, personalizes, and "clicks" the send button. Google/gmail actually sends the email.

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by jumbopapa on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:19PM (#19211578)

He makes it sound like that is all handled client side though, no? It uses the users own gmail account to send the emails.

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by ajaygoel on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @04:53PM (#19212384)

No it's not all client side. Just the interaction with the UI is client-side. All the heavy lifting is server-side.

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by SubuSS on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @09:01PM (#19213915)

I am sorry if this sounds dense: But if you are sending the emails from server side, how are you getting to the user credentials / gmail login 2 step verifications etc.?

I am assuming you mean you send from the client UI but the extension talks to your server for scheduling the future sends etc. in which case you shouldn't have that much network bandwidth.

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by ajaygoel on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @10:37PM (#19214321)

The user logs into his Gmail account on his own and uses the GMass extension, which operates within the Gmail UI, to create/schedule campaigns. On the back-end, GMass connects to the user's account over standard Google OAuth 2 to then send the emails.

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by SubuSS on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @11:46PM (#19214603)

Well I should have thought of Google apps . Good stuff!

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