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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/mrmch; my proof: https://keybase.io/mrmch/sigs/9-oHATmYJvdf2GBn6i9zz3dn24TC43MBwBDrWN6SL7Q ]

cofounder of sendwithus.com

avid rock climber and hacker

twitter.com/mrmch github.com/mrmch

  1. mrmch parent
    Surprising how poor the reception for this kind of research is.. it's 2019, porn/adult entertainment is a huge industry. I'd expect the tech industry at least to be more open to discussing it.
  2. mrmch parent
    Interesting and scary research... Maybe link directly to the about page?
  6. mrmch parent
    Currently trialing Meetingbird, mostly for scheduling interviews across two offices and finding time slots that work for all involved.

    Aside from an invite snafu I've been impressed with the scheduler.

  8. mrmch parent
    This is awesome news for Mailgun customers, kudos to Will and the Mailgun team for pulling this off.

    Mailgun has one of the best inbound/outbound API combinations available, great for companies with a strong developer team.

  10. mrmch parent
    Super stoked to see this announcement, I know Garry has been cranking on the new fund.

    Canadian founders, Garry+Alexis are super canuck friendly, some of the best investors we have :)

  11. mrmch parent
    Is Textur (https://www.textur.com/) an alternative to Wagon?
  13. mrmch parent
    Just echo'd this in my own comment; as mark says you will get false positives and high spam reports.
  14. mrmch parent
    I would be very cautious using Anymailfinder.com to generate email lists -- based on this copy on anymailfinder.com:

    Anymail finder uses many approaches to find emails—it searches billions of web pages and performs direct server validation.

    The original SMTP spec allows for email address validation, and there are tricks like opening an SMTP connection to a mail server and dropping it half way if the address is verified -- but these are the same "tricks" that spammers use, so many mail servers disable or report false positives. There's a reason why most lead services have a high price: they have actually verified an email address.

    Next, sending cold emails to business is OK (sometimes annoying but legally ok), but the copy on makesmail.com has a broken link (1) and doesn't clearly describe how to cold email and be legally compliant. From the horses mouth: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can...

    Regardless, congratulations on building up to $1,500 MRR, that is a milestone most side projects never reach!

  15. mrmch parent
    Haha, we'll work on better food line throughput next year :)
  16. mrmch parent
    For running a developer event like BattleSnake.io, C9 is amazing.

    After a few years of headaches trying to help students get their local dev environments setup, we started recommending Cloud9 to all Students. Definitely the way of the future.

  17. mrmch parent
    Congrats to the Revlo team, awesome to see more Canadians doing great things w/ YC :)
  20. mrmch parent
    That's fair feedback (pricing is per recipient), but it reflects the cost of running our service (we store data about your customers long term, which adds up more than the cost of each individual send).
  21. mrmch parent
    We had more than a few really worried people reach out (before this thread), this change is very worrying to some. I'll dial it back though, thanks!
  22. mrmch parent
    To save you some time, we have a blog post covering the criteria to use: http://blog.sendwithus.com/which-email-service-provider-shou...

    I'm biased (as the cofounder), but I strongly believe that you should treat email delivery as a commodity and use a product like Sendwithus.com on top of it.

  23. mrmch parent
    If you want to enjoy SendGrid deliverability but a different interface, check us out: sendwithus.com

    We're designed as a higher level on top of email deliverability, offering some pretty rich features (email storing, great A/B testing, drip campaigns...)

  24. mrmch parent
    Hey folks, cofounder of Sendwithus.com here -- we're a layer on top of Mandrill, SendGrid, Sparkpost, etc. You can hot swap backends with us, making a change trivial. We're also experts on all these platforms so can advice cost vs support.

    Hit our support team (support@sendwithus.com) if you have any questions, we have a super rich feature set that goes beyond what these products provide.

    Happy to discuss discounts for folks making the switch to us, email me: matt@sendwithus.com

  25. mrmch parent
    Also check us out: https://www.sendwithus.com/docs/templating

    Our template engine (Jinja) is the most advanced of any email platform out there.

  26. mrmch parent
    We do this (Sendwithus.com) -- not only see email with all personalization, but see it on the device a customer used (was the link really broken on an iPhone?)
  27. mrmch parent
    Check us out (Sendwithus.com, yc w14)

    Unlimited templates, and you can swap out backends (SendGrid, SparkPost, others)

  28. mrmch parent
    Matt here, Sendwithus founder -- Live Chat is great, but it's really important to consider that most of the "big hacks" in the news are the result of social engineering.
  30. mrmch parent
    Vancouverites -- Victoria is a very real option. You don't have to sacrifice ocean or mountains, and can afford to buy a home (and then some).

    https://github.com/sendwithus/vic-startup-jobs

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