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Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses

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Post by thaumaturgy »

jvvlimme wrote: post #5
xyby wrote: post #2

I'm sending out a newsletter every now and then. A simple text newsletter that goes out to about 50,000 subscribers. I send it via a PHP script I wrote myself. It can do a/b tests, bounce- and optout-handling. Every time I see commercial offerings like this one, I wonder: Would I gain anything by using them? They seem pretty expensive to me. My selfmade solution also can do HTML mailings, but I never was able to meas…

Deliverability is going to be substantially better. IPs from commercial providers are trusted among ISPs and have a better chance not being flagged as spam.

You're right for the most part, but I hope that will change soon. I've been working on a new spam filter for a while, it's in testing on my mail server for a handful of customers, and quite a bit of stuff from constantcontact, sendgrid, Amazon, and even Gmail are getting caught by it.

The unfortunate thing is that every time there's a new trusted mailing service with a good reputation, spammers flock to it.

Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses

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Post by NicoJuicy »

I have a small email marketing app, that can integrate text as well as html. (based on Asp.Net MVC and WebApi)

It also allows conditionals (Mustache like syntax) and multiple languages in one "Send"... Haven't bootstrapped it though, it's for personal use and because i have multiple clients in french, english and dutch...

Most of the time, i use it to send the "launch" letter for a new website, with the mailing list that i collected from their landing page.

it just makes my life easier :)

Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses

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Post by juriansluiman »

runarb wrote: post #9

Was a thread about this a couple of days ago also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9068154 . Looks like they changed their name since then.

There was another company called SendOwl and it got there attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9068741

So probably they had to sort out a different name quickly...

Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses

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Post by aaronbasssett »

jvvlimme wrote: post #5
xyby wrote: post #2

I'm sending out a newsletter every now and then. A simple text newsletter that goes out to about 50,000 subscribers. I send it via a PHP script I wrote myself. It can do a/b tests, bounce- and optout-handling. Every time I see commercial offerings like this one, I wonder: Would I gain anything by using them? They seem pretty expensive to me. My selfmade solution also can do HTML mailings, but I never was able to meas…

Deliverability is going to be substantially better. IPs from commercial providers are trusted among ISPs and have a better chance not being flagged as spam.

Not in this instance. They use your AWS SES account, which you could just as easily use from your own script so deliverability will be equal.

Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses

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Post by midnightmonster »

supercoder wrote: post #12

Site seems really broken on iOS

For me on iPhone, the page would be fine if only the entire almost-full-screen-size navigation didn't switch to fixed positioning and block most of the page once I scroll past it.

Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses

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Post by ThomPete »

xyby wrote: post #2

I'm sending out a newsletter every now and then. A simple text newsletter that goes out to about 50,000 subscribers. I send it via a PHP script I wrote myself. It can do a/b tests, bounce- and optout-handling. Every time I see commercial offerings like this one, I wonder: Would I gain anything by using them? They seem pretty expensive to me. My selfmade solution also can do HTML mailings, but I never was able to meas…

A rookie question if you don't mind me asking.

How does your setup work? Have you thought about open-sourcing or selling the script?

I am using MailChimp for weekendhacker but i always feel like it's way too bloated for my needs.

Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses

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Post by jwblackwell »

We use to use http://sendy.co/ which is a self hosted solution, but doesn't really offer anything in the way of templates and lacks some features. We ultimately left as we now use Intercom but I'd be interested in seeing how this service evolves.
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