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Re:My Notes on Gitlab's Postgres Schema Design (2022) on Sunday February 18, 2024 @05:12PM (#39423996)
One good argument I found [^1] about not exposing primary keys is that primary keys may change (during system/db change) and you want to ensure users have a consistent way of accessing data.

[^1]: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2183...

Re:Show HN: Mailready – meet the new email deliverability standards on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @02:11PM (#39194265)
Thanks for this. Will fix.

Ask HN: Need Help with Pricing Model

Posted by kehers on Sunday December 12, 2021 @03:27PM
from the ask-hn dept.

We currently run a marketing automation solution and charge by the number of unique users a message is sent to in the month irrespective of the number of profiles in the account. So a customer may have 5,000 profiles but they only pay for 50 if that’s the number of customers they send a campaign or automation to in the month.The challenge with this is it makes price estimation difficult (we...

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Re:Sinch to acquire Mailgun on Thursday September 30, 2021 @02:49PM (#28709733)
It's not the same as what Mailgun does. Mailgun lets you send emails programmatically. Sendy/Sendwithses lets you send campaigns from an interface (using your SES).
Re:Ask HN: Where are all the old Show HNs? on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @12:57PM (#28684923)
I think a better route is getting someone to handle the marketing. As engineers, even when we know what to do in terms of marketing, we still find it hard to do because it's not something we enjoy like engineering.
Re:Show HN: Forlater.email – an email-based bookmarking service on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @07:28PM (#28611309)
I'd rather recommend using a cheaper service like Amazon SES than running your own mail server. Email deliverability is complex and figuring it out may not be worth it.
Re:Mail for Good on Saturday July 25, 2020 @12:48AM (#23946913)
Plug: If anyone is looking for a way to use RSS for their newsletters instead of getting it in their inbox, see http://myrss.email/
Re:Ask HN: Do Mailchimp/Drip etc. offer deliverability advantages over... on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @02:23AM (#23151051)
Delivery advantage? I doubt. In the background, some of these tools use AWS SES/Mailgun/Sendgrid. (I know Convertkit use to use Mailgun for sending).

However, it's that they can help with handling the bulk sending properly especially with queuing and scheduling.

Re: link tracking, I believe you can always turn this off. Even for open tracking. Explore the settings and you should find where.

Re:Ask HN: Best current mailing list manager? on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @12:56AM (#23003526)
+1 for Mailgun.
Re:Show HN: Kanmail – An email client that functions like a kanban board on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:02AM (#22994167)
Also, this: https://imapapi.com/
Re:Message-ID Issue with Mailgun Batch Sending API? on Monday April 20, 2020 @02:02AM (#22921549)
Send a support mail to Mailgun and hear what they have to say about it. You can also consider using their mailing list option: https://documentation.mailgun.com/en/latest/api-mailinglists...
Re:Mining my mailbox for top email service providers on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @02:11PM (#22359204)
Yup
Re:Mining my mailbox for top email service providers on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @10:26AM (#22356691)
This is nice. Shows a different approach to getting the ESP from the mail header.
Re:Mining my mailbox for top email service providers on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @10:20AM (#22356642)
Yes, for the mailbox I ran it on. I'll like to see someone do this on a "business" mailbox
Re:Mining my mailbox for top email service providers on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @10:18AM (#22356628)
Yes it's intentionally as Mandrill is still used solely for transactional emails and Mailchimp for marketing. Same reason I didn't merge Mailgun and Mailjet.

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