Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js
by leshokunin on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:18PM
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Our team at Mailscript.com is working on exactly that. Would love to chat some time to bounce ideas.
Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js
by darrenwestall on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:54AM
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You can do this sort of thing in Intercom - only send an email if they haven’t accessed X for example.
That’s what we do at Paiger and it’s a fantastic way to ensure people reach the “Aha” moment.
Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js
by corobo on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:10AM
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Intercom is the worst of the lot. To the point I've adblocked it haha
Do they still do that godawful beep while you're trying to read?
Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js
by darrenwestall on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:23AM
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The developer in me doesn’t disagree, but it does lead to a significant amount of inbound leads that would have been lost otherwise (We tested it).
Our market is marketers though, not technical people - if it were, I suspect the results would differ.
Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js
by corobo on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @09:07AM
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Aye that is fair, I mostly dislike intercom because I I've only ever interacted with it when it's been telling me the bleeding obvious (to me)
Re:Show HN: Candymail – Email Automation for Node.js
by artur_makly on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @09:11AM
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We use Intercom and Mixpanel for VisualSitemaps.com.
Sadly their Mixpanel "integration" is very basic and does not sync up the most important engagement data which Mixpanel tracks for discreet features. So the only way to set that up is with by writing your own custom api syncing().
Eventually, once SaaS subscriptions become more commonplace among the rest of the population, a significant number of people are going to be annoyed by the disconnect between the automated emails they receive and the features they’ve already tried out as a new user.
One or two people will see an opportunity and take VC money to fix the disconnect: a way to make email automations smarter by deepening the integration between ESPs and SaaS code bases, as you have done with this oss project.