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Apple is such a massive company, it's easy to forget that each of these variations sells millions of units to customers who want that one product. For example, many pilots have an …

I would encourage you to try it out. The expectation on the other side is extremely low -- no one expects a conversation or honestly more than a two-word pleasantry. And the camera…

I toured the main FedEx hub in Memphis several years ago. They have many buildings that sort packages on high-speed machinery. In one building, there was a long line of parcel tray…

Dozens of times per day. It's on my bookmark bar, and I click it routinely: https://www.amazon.com/afx/slotselection/

Even worse, the US Surgeon General claimed that masks are "NOT effective" for the general public. https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12337257852839321...

> Give them money, while the company is apparently still going to worry about milking advertising dollars out of me? Does Zoom have ads? I haven't seen any. I believe all of the ad…

These are the same kinds of assumptions that lead engineers to think they can build a [any product] clone in a weekend. It's unlikely that the problem or constraints are nearly as …

> culture of litigation in the US "Sixteen countries have shut schools nationwide, impacting almost 363.1 million children and youth. A further sixteen countries have implemented l…

People aren't searching for the service -- they're searching for the content. It's a very long tail of keywords that brands have used across millions of emails.

There are hundreds of guides out there -- Google for the one that works for you. Though, I don't think you'll find anything that pays per click -- usually they pay on conversion (s…

It really depends on the brand and the type of email that you're sending (new product, content, abandoned cart, etc), and each email marketer needs to test for themselves. I've see…

It's a bit all over the place. ELB -> EC2 -> RDS Postgres. S3 for the storage of the emails and images, CDN'd by BunnyCDN. Hetzner for background job servers. Digital Ocean to run …

Drop me an email: [hn username]@milled.com

Yup, good idea -- just a link + landing page to see what inbound queries come in. Will explore it! Thanks.

Thanks for relaying that -- really appreciate it! Marketers, designers, and copywriters are definitely frequent users of Milled, so I'm building some new features for them in the c…

Great ideas -- thanks! A couple of people have suggested similar, though selling to hedge funds. Right now, I think the greatest growth is still from adding more brands and making …

The site was built from day 1 with SEO as the primary user acquisition channel. So most of the engineering effort has been to ensure that the images are saved, all of the text is p…

The vast majority of brands have no problem with what the site does, and use the site frequently for their own purposes. A handful have asked for the emails to be taken down, usual…

Thanks -- will fix on next deploy! That typo has been there for ... 2.5 years. Appreciate the fresh eyes!

I asked around a little bit, but generally just built it. My hedge, though, was to time-box dev to a few weeks and then show it to more people for feedback before spending addition…

I didn't. Instead, I manually subscribed to hundreds of newsletters myself to get started. Eventually thousands. It wasn't until 4 years in that I added the ability for brands to a…

I was running email marketing for a brand, and I noticed two things: 1) we spent several days to create each email blast, but the traffic / revenue impact was over in My hypothesis…

Hey, I built this! Solo founder and profitable. Stack is primarily Amazon SES + Rails, and affiliate monetized. Happy to answer any questions.