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Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by z92 »

old-gregg wrote: post #34
lftl wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This a completely off-topic and pendantic, but I just thought I'd throw this out there. On this page: http://mailgun.net/pricing I personally have a hard time parsing how much money $0.5 is. I'm assuming you're charging 50 cents per 1K messages. My mind groks $0.50 per 1K messages, much more easily.

Great feedback, we'll fix this - thank you!

Also write it as "per thousand" messages. For the first 10 minutes I was reading it as 50 cents per kilo byte ( 1KB ? ) of message which sounded expensive.

Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by SoftwareMaven »

X-Istence wrote: post #36
SoftwareMaven wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm working on it. :) We hope to have a private alpha start the end of next month.

I am definitely interested in this, do you have any website up yet? Any possible way to get onto that private alpha? ;-)

Website is http://ClickLock.com/. We've pivoted slightly, so some of the details are out of date, but there is a sign-up form at http://clicklock.com/install/ for people wanting an early look.

I'm working through the pivot tech changes, then will update the web site at that point.

Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by dools »

old-gregg wrote: post #47
X-Istence wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off topic: Is your username a reference to BBC Three's Old Gregg "episode"? I sure hope so. =)

Yes. Hopefully this won't affect the corporate image of Mailgun in any way :)

Which is in turn a reference to some guy yelling out "I'm old greeeeegg" across the crowd at Glastonbury. Funny how that crazed party tripper has, in his little way, affected all of our lives.

Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by dools »

old-gregg wrote: post #19
staunch wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SES is extremely easy, and I seriously doubt any claims that they're more reliable/faster than what Amazon is offering. What kind of intelligent processing are they offering? In the use case of turning a reply into a comment the hard work is not receiving and parsing the email, it's authenticating the user/adding the comment to the database. I'm a potential customer who just doesn't see the value proposition. I'm sur…

Staunch: there will always be guys who want to do everything themselves. But we're selling to folks who have other things to worry about. Risking to re-type our own front-page, I'll go ahead and give you some tips for how Mailgun can be useful: Once a message is sent, what happens to it? We give you searchable SMTP logs: see if some crazy admin guy in Canada misconfigured greylisting (because he likes to do everythin…

Automatic detection of which bits are quoted sounds good.

Having just gone through the process of setting up a VPS to handle sending and receiving email, processing bounces and recording delivery receipts I'd say that, fundamentally, this isn't challenging.

Then again I've also setup my own SMPP server for sending SMS and didn't find that particularly difficult either :)

Some of the inbound processing features sound pretty good - how about offering them as a paid-per-transaction service? I wouldn't bother outsourcing the sending and receiving per se because it's cheap and easy to do that myself, and I then have control over the up (or down!) time but being able to pass a message through your service and pay, say, $1 per 1000 messages processed with no storage costs would be kinda cool.

I'm imagining getting back some kind of structured document (XML and/or JSON) allowing me to see quoted messages, interleaved replies, attachments, encoding blah blah basically all that stuff you're talking about.

Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by elb0w »

This is literally the greatest service I have come across. Honestly, it was like a godsend, all day I was studying on all these little details required to having a solid, protected, non-blacklisted, works on ec2, stable, spam-free, e-mail server.

After hours of configuring postfix and looking at files I never wanted to even know about I took a break on HN.

Then I saw Mailgun, boom.. problem solved. (With more bells and whistles then I even imagined)

I've now saved part of my life thanks to this product.

Even chatted with one of their dev's who is extremely helpful. This is the kind of company I would want to invest in.

Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by elb0w »

elb0w wrote: post #56

This is literally the greatest service I have come across. Honestly, it was like a godsend, all day I was studying on all these little details required to having a solid, protected, non-blacklisted, works on ec2, stable, spam-free, e-mail server. After hours of configuring postfix and looking at files I never wanted to even know about I took a break on HN. Then I saw Mailgun, boom.. problem solved. (With more bells a…

Honestly just to add, I like this product so much that i've considered porting their helper libs to every language they don't already cover.

Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by rumpelstiltskin »

old-gregg wrote: post #49
rumpelstiltskin wrote: post #48

To the ppl at Mailgun following this thread: I want to see you guys succeed. Please spend a portion of your funding on getting a better website design. The content of the site was enough to get me to sign up, but you'd be surprised just how much the look and feel of a site matter to some customers.

Will do! Do you mind if I contact you in private regarding specific design issues you'd want to point out? My email is in my profile. Thanks.

Sorry for the late reply. I'm not a designer myself, just know when a final design is bad or good.

You don't need something flashy. Something Neat, simple and attractive that gets the USP across will do. Check out the sites of some of your YC classmates, like Indinero for example.

Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by matthew-wegner »

old-gregg wrote: post #7
rishi wrote: post #6

"Let your users leave comments, answer simple questions, upload data as attachments and interact with each other using their email clients." Q: So a customer can reply back to one of your emails and it turns into a comment? thanks

With a little bit of coding on your part - yes.

I'm curious about this. I found the tagging functionality for outbound mail. If I tag an outbound message, and someone replies to it, can I easily read back the tag from the reply message?

Put another way--I want to send an outbound email in relation to a specific thread/ID, and if someone replies I want to associate their reply with that ID. What's the best way to do this with your system?

Re: Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

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Post by kyenneti »

Congratulations on the funding. Feedback - Logo is not click able on the documentation page. Can I use your service to send emails on behalf of my clients. We have an bulk email campaigns app, that our clients use to send their mail. I am looking for a SMTP service where we can send email on their behalf.
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