Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business

@patwalls a note regarding Sendgrid. As a user of their free tier (for a freelance job) I was recently bitten by a shared IP that was put on a block list, probably due to abuse by another Sendgrid user.

Support does not migrate accounts on the shared IP pool to another IP, basically leaving me unable to send email for days.

Might be worth upgrading to their Pro plan ($90/mo). This gets you your own dedicated IP so this won't bite you in the future.

I like this list as a list of services that I would like to write, maybe improve on and undercut. :)

Find someone with a college email address and sign up for Github Student Developer Pack. SendGrid for free (15k/month sends) as well as 150/year in AWS credit for 4 years if you continue to have access to the student email.

Side note, but why on earth is the body text set to 35 px?!

I need to zoom my browser down to 50% (a quarter of the pixel area) just to make it readable.

This trend of gargantuan body text in blogs has been going on for a while, but this is the worst I've ever seen.

When the size of each letter is something like six times the area of letters in my computer's menu bar, something is seriously wrong.

Is it unreasonable to expect body text on the web to be roughly the same size as the body text used in my computer's menus and dialogs? Obviously those should already be set to the ideal legible size, so what is with these blogs deciding to choose mega-sized letters instead??

Dedicated IPs can be worse for low senders, as there's no other legitimate volume coming through outside of your own, so you need to build and maintain your own reputation entirely.

Ideal solution would be a provider that only allows trusted people on shared IPs. Generally a non-free provider will be best for that.