desheikh
Re:Why is it so expensive to send an email?
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:58PM (#50262115)
Founder of EmailFig here. I agree the raw sending is the cheap part.
Most of the work goes into reputation management and customer support and in my experience, most of the cost is marketing.
For raw sending there are plenty of cheaper options, as others have mentioned. SES, for example, charges ~$0.10 per 1,000.
Re:Sendy Is Insecure: How Not to Implement ReCAPTCHA
on Friday November 08, 2019 @10:05PM (#21489309)
I've seen cases where spammers abuse sign-up forms to generate spam (by using the name field for their content). Without server side validation it would be trivial for a malicious user to accomplish this.
Shameless plug - I run a hosted alternative to Sendy https://www.mailblast.io/
Re:TurboTax Freemium Funnel: Critical Analysis and UX Teardown
on Sunday April 15, 2018 @11:54AM (#16843170)
In Canada, I've switched over to https://simpletax.ca. It's free, (supported by donations), and works well even for more complicated filings.
Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill
on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @09:58PM (#15496352)
There are tons of hosted solutions for Amazon SES too, if your'e not interested in setting up your own solution.
Shameless plug: I run https://mailblast.io, a hosted email marketing solution powered by Amazon SES.
Re:Blue Apron, Struggling to Woo Investors, Lowers Price Range for IPO
on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @06:08PM (#14658936)
I've done Chefs Plate and Good Food here in Toronto, and while they are great, for people like me living in the city, the delivery is not the most convenient aspect.
My local Supermarket chain, could just put up a rack with meal kits, and destroy most of their market.
Re:Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy
on Thursday March 05, 2015 @10:55PM (#9155497)
Thanks! I'm actively working on enhancing the feature set to match what MailChimp etc provide.
If you try it out and find something you need missing, drop me a line and I'll see what I can do!
Re:Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy
on Thursday March 05, 2015 @10:46PM (#9155470)
From what I understand you need an API endpoint to unsubscribe users from your list.
Try out the service and drop me a line, I'm sure I can accommodate your use case :)
Re:Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy
on Thursday March 05, 2015 @01:43PM (#9152889)
Haha, thanks. I've been growing pretty well organically, but still feel a little odd pitching my service online.
I should just set up a referral program myself and let others do it for me :p
Re:Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy
on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:59PM (#9152532)
shameless plug
I built SimplerSES for the same reason - a cheaper alternative to MailChimp using AWS SES. It's built as a hosted service so theres no server costs, and you only pay for the emails you send out.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on?
on Saturday July 13, 2013 @05:29PM (#6038832)
http://simplerses.com - A hosted email solution and newsletter delivery tool powered by Amazon SES.
Been working on it as a side project for a while. Trying to put more time over the weekends now that I have a few paying customers.
Show HN: SimplerSES - Email Management for Amazon SES
Re:Startup idea list
on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @10:45AM (#4538303)
Fedex already provides this service
fedex.com/office
Re:Earthquake of magnitude 8.7 strikes off Sumatra, Indonesia
on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @07:00AM (#3826866)
Some of the guys at the office here in Singapore felt the aftershock, but most people didn't notice.
Re:Kickstrap: Enhancements for Bootstrap
on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @07:25AM (#3797049)
Rather than themes with a few color changes, what would be neater would be themes which actually modified the default style of bootstrap. As a developer using bootstrap and without any design skills, that would be far more helpful.
At least for me, none of the addons seem to add anything compelling to the default bootstrap for me to use it.
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