How do you plan to make money? Annoying ads in the emails or some other idea?
In the short term, I don't :P. I have some long term ideas, ideally keeping it ad-free forever.
Show HN: Invite to try fiesta.cc - effortless mailing lists
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#22I love the simple landing page. The only thing I'd change are the screenshots. If you add a highlight to the CC textfield for example, it'd more quickly illustrate the point. Centering the object doesn't really put enough focus on it.
Also, you could put more context in the example. Like saying it's for birthday party or for vacation photo's (like Apple does).
Re: Show HN: Invite to try fiesta.cc - effortless mailing lists
#23I love the simple landing page. The only thing I'd change are the screenshots. If you add a highlight to the CC textfield for example, it'd more quickly illustrate the point. Centering the object doesn't really put enough focus on it. Also, you could put more context in the example. Like saying it's for birthday party or for vacation photo's (like Apple does).
Thanks! I think those are both great suggestions - I'll see what I can do.
Suggestions like that are really helpful as I am definitely not a designer (IADNAD).
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
One more thing... what happens if I'm part of two different family@fiesta.cc lists? :-)
when somebody tries to add you to the second one it'll be automatically renamed (just for you, not for everybody else) to family1@fiesta.cc - you can then go into the web UI and rename both however you want!
Now I'm thoroughly impressed, thanks
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#25Looks great! I think you should rework the testimonials on the site. I don't think your target audience will recognize a Twitter username.
A feature request would be a link to see the full history of the email list. Would be great to be able to add another person down the line and them being able to read up on what topics have already been discussed.
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#26Looks great! I think you should rework the testimonials on the site. I don't think your target audience will recognize a Twitter username. A feature request would be a link to see the full history of the email list. Would be great to be able to add another person down the line and them being able to read up on what topics have already been discussed.
Thanks! Yeah I just added the testimonials this morning so they definitely can be spruced up I think :)
Archiving is definitely in the works. It'll be opt-in, per list, that way we still never save any emails by default.
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#27How do you plan to make money? Annoying ads in the emails or some other idea?
In the short term, I don't :P. I have some long term ideas, ideally keeping it ad-free forever.
Possibly OT but I would gladly pay to use something like mailchimp or aweber lite if the deliverability/reputation was good. Lite in this case meaning 10 minute admin learning curve and a simplified feature set. I know that's vague. but in general I find the the current crop of email web apps to be bloated and hence too time consuming.
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#28Thanks for this, we used librelist.com to create our ML last months, but it was too opened (archives on google, anyone could join) for some people.
https://fiesta.cc/about do you use mongodb in the backend?
If so, could you give us more technical details about how you connect your mail server to the DB?
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#29How do you plan to make money? Annoying ads in the emails or some other idea?
In the short term, I don't :P. I have some long term ideas, ideally keeping it ad-free forever.
Also would be useful for business if I could "private label" the service to work on my own domain name (or sub domain) simply by adding a fiesta.cc mx record to my dns.
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#30Thanks for this, we used librelist.com to create our ML last months, but it was too opened (archives on google, anyone could join) for some people. https://fiesta.cc/about do you use mongodb in the backend? If so, could you give us more technical details about how you connect your mail server to the DB?
Yeah, the other nice thing about this compared to librelist is that you can use any list name you want without worrying about conflicts (since lists are tied to the sender's address).
Yup, using MongoDB to store everything. I will definitely be doing a post discussing the architecture, etc. Follow @mdirolf or @fiesta and you'll see it when it pops up.
The short answer, though, is that I'm running a 3 node replica set. Each mailserver (right now there are 2) is running on one of those nodes.