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That pricing isn't too bad for SMS messages but it is VERY high for emails. Simplicity has value but I'm not sure it has that much value.
It's basically 10x what Mailgun charges, which is pretty reasonable overhead imo. $10 to send 1,000 email notifications to your team is peanuts. People will 100% pay that.
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It's basically 10x what Mailgun charges, which is pretty reasonable overhead imo. $10 to send 1,000 email notifications to your team is peanuts. People will 100% pay that.
What's the difficulty of having your own web service sending out emails by itself for free?
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It's basically 10x what Mailgun charges, which is pretty reasonable overhead imo. $10 to send 1,000 email notifications to your team is peanuts. People will 100% pay that.
What's the difficulty of having your own web service sending out emails by itself for free?
I think this is a nice idea, but I'm worried about the, let's be honest, needless single point of failure this adds to my architecture. Nothing this does ought to be more than a 100 line open source project (which is not criticism btw - if you can monetize a tiny codebase, more power to you!). But because it's SaaS, you need to depend on someone else to keep their service up and running. Because of that simple reason…
I think this is a nice idea, but I'm worried about the, let's be honest, needless single point of failure this adds to my architecture. Nothing this does ought to be more than a 100 line open source project (which is not criticism btw - if you can monetize a tiny codebase, more power to you!). But because it's SaaS, you need to depend on someone else to keep their service up and running. Because of that simple reason…
Twilio looks to be under $0.10 for more than a few european countries I checked:
https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/ch https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/de https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/es https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/se https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/fi https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/nl
Although I truly think this is a fantastic product, both in the simplicity of the offering and the simplicity of the API, I was a little concerned about being able to use my own domain and phone number when sending messages, for the sake of building trust with my users. Also, I (selfishly, perhaps) have more faith in the reliability of an established service than something recently launched. For anyone who has simila…
Send me a tweet @flutemail if you're interested, I'll let you know when it's ready (should be in about a month).
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Why would I pay to send an email?
Beacause these types of services go to great effort to keep their repuation high on email services. You use these services so your 1000's emails get delivered instead of being rated as spam or being blacklisted.
Is there something special why you’d need to pay for a product such as mailgun, and not just something like the ISPmail guide suggests?
Both for small bootstrapped projects, and for larger companies it should be cheaper to just run it yourself.
There is an audience for every (useful) product!
I think this is a nice idea, but I'm worried about the, let's be honest, needless single point of failure this adds to my architecture. Nothing this does ought to be more than a 100 line open source project (which is not criticism btw - if you can monetize a tiny codebase, more power to you!). But because it's SaaS, you need to depend on someone else to keep their service up and running. Because of that simple reason…
> I know of no service that undercuts $0.10 per SMS to European countries unless you buy in huge bulks. Twilio looks to be under $0.10 for more than a few european countries I checked: https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/ch https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/de https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/es https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/se https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/fi https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/nl