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pirsquare

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    Comment #48316694

    Opps sorry url got mixed up. the password reset link if you replace "console/console" with "console" it should work. I will push a fix shortly.

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    Comment #48313916

    I feel it's way too hand wavy on consistency and correctness. My opinion as someone who've implemented marketing workflows that breaks all the time (and tons of painful lessons). S…

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    Comment #48310965

    Hahaha totally relatable. Love Zendesk but they kept charging and adding more features I don't need. I built https://pointanswer.com/ for myself to host 3 of my own SaaS instead of…

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    Comment #48211422

    Being an advocate for GCP all these years, I can only say the earlier you get out of it, the safer it is for your business. All it takes is for their automated system to go haywire…

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    Comment #47071331

    Facebook doing that is actually good, to protect consumers from data abuse after incidents like cambridge analytica. They are holding businesses who touches your personal data resp…

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    Comment #46815966

    excellent idea, this will eventually be the SendGrid for email agents. Just automating 2FA alone is worth the gold. And there's tons of use cases. I have no doubt this will be huge…

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    Comment #44459617

    postmark is a garbage now. This is coming from a previous postmark advocate and moved to SES. SES is terrible in the past but now it is at least on-par if not better than postmark.…

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    Comment #43870478

    Because all other aspects of their businesses except services beat expectations. So we can't really say if this change will be permanent indefinitely.

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    Comment #38595858

    Because business owners don't have the time and resources to keep changing vendors to save 10% costs. Time is money. Switching cost is more than you think. For example, I don't lik…

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    Comment #38075756

    Why would you allow users to unsub from transactional emails?

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    Comment #38075742

    This is the direct link to the guidelines. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126 Strange there's no mentioned about transactional emails. Since we wouldn't include unsubscri…

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    Comment #38020058

    Amazon is A-tier. GCP is F-tier GCP - Shutdown our production servers and took 1 whole week to get it resolved. Nothing fraudulent on our end. Just for missing out on KYC form.

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    Comment #38020044

    Yep shutdown our production servers and take 1 whole week to get it resolved. Nothing fraudulent on our end. Just missing out on KYC form.

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    Comment #38020037

    GCP will shutdown your production servers and take one whole week to get it back. All for missing out on a KYC form. Our story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35133917 Forget…

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    Comment #38012854

    Reminds me of https://killedbygoogle.com/ Makes me wonder. Is there a market for something like Upvoty (to gauge interested) + Kickstarter (to get commitment) for dead projects? Or…

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    Comment #37849878

    > AWS support is so nice, you can't believe it. This! They even custom-coded their support portal better than those off-the-shelf vendor like Zendesk. I say this as a Zendesk payin…

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    Comment #37794961

    We need a free Postman replacement tool with Photopea business model that is driven by ads, not VC-funds.

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    Comment #37322711

    It used to be cheap and affordable, then one day some Google executive decided to 10X the Map APIs pricing.

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    Comment #36901223

    The key to long term success in Shopify ecosystem is to focus on a niche market. For example, a scheduling tool for merchants. If you build something that almost every merchant wil…

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    Comment #36422489

    Webflow need a mode for this. I struggle dealing with "icons" over raw code.

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    Comment #36407492

    FWIW Render is moving most of their infrastructure from GCP to AWS https://twitter.com/anuraggoel/status/1670863526272077825

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    Comment #36318048

    It's dirt cheap. But I still prefer EU region =).

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    Comment #36128306

    As usual, the expected Google Clown Platform support. FWIW, 3 months ago they shutdown my servers for some minor issue and I'm only able to get them to reactivate after a week. Sou…