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Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign

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Re: Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign

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Post by pdimitar »

xeromal wrote: post #28
pdimitar wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The entire Postmark team is joining ActiveCampaign, and we are going to continue to operate the way we have always operated for the foreseeable future. That includes the support team you love! While I appreciate you saying this, you have to have in mind that just some 6 months down the line it won't be you calling the shots. The business priorities will be determined by other people and they can and will command yo…

Yeah, I believe when some says this, they actually mean it. They just don't have the power to ensure it actually happens.

Oh I am sure they 100% believe it. I wonder why people always forget about the power structures. I guess that's what happens when people work what they love and money is just a positive side effect... as opposed to this being exactly the opposite for 99% of the other population.

Re: Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign

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Post by robinhood »

mbStavola wrote: post #5

Extremely mixed feelings on this one. On one hand, it's awesome Wildbit was able to sell Postmark on their terms. To be able to build something, make money, and then walk away when you want is a huge accomplishment. Hats off to them. On the other hand, the reason I always chose Postmark over Sendgrid, MailChimp, et cetera, even though they were much smaller, is because they seriously cared about their customers. Supp…

Exactly.

I have the biggest respect for Postmark. Excellent product. Extremely well done APIs. Incredible performance and reliability. I've always chosen them for my projects and recommended it many times. And most of all, I wanted to support an independent product, made by awesome people.

I really, really hope they will remain like they are now.

Congratulations to the owners for staying true to their values all these years. Wilbit has always been a huge, huge source of inspiration for everything I've done. And congrats for the payout!

Re: Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign

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Post by Toutouxc »

themanmaran wrote: post #22
mbStavola wrote: post #5

Extremely mixed feelings on this one. On one hand, it's awesome Wildbit was able to sell Postmark on their terms. To be able to build something, make money, and then walk away when you want is a huge accomplishment. Hats off to them. On the other hand, the reason I always chose Postmark over Sendgrid, MailChimp, et cetera, even though they were much smaller, is because they seriously cared about their customers. Supp…

I'm hopeful that the product remains the same. I chose Postmark because it was the most simple transactional email provider I could find. ActiveCampaign on the other hand was always a nightmare for me at my prior company. Their API had a 5 request / second rate limit. Which made it almost impossible to use for 50,000+ customers (syncing up emails / tags / campaigns).

I worked on a project that used the ActiveCampaign API. It had tens of thousands of users and an elaborate tagging system.

There were operations that we'd have liked to be synchronous (in the browser), but the rate limit and no useful batching mechanism (AFAIK at that time) meant they took over a minute to complete.

Re: Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign

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Post by daenney »

> In the end, the team at ActiveCampaign really showed up. The majority of our team will continue 4-day work weeks through the end of the year.

But then what? They have to accept a 5-day work week again in 6 months or find work somewhere else? Getting an extra day off a week is a huge benefit, and I bet losing it will have a pretty big impact on those that had grown accustomed to it.

Re: Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign

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Post by shafyy »

mbStavola wrote: post #5

Extremely mixed feelings on this one. On one hand, it's awesome Wildbit was able to sell Postmark on their terms. To be able to build something, make money, and then walk away when you want is a huge accomplishment. Hats off to them. On the other hand, the reason I always chose Postmark over Sendgrid, MailChimp, et cetera, even though they were much smaller, is because they seriously cared about their customers. Supp…

Give MailPace a try [0]. The creator seems like a great guy, and the service does what it says without any bs. I've been using it for a while now for side projects, and can only recommmend it.

0: https://mailpace.com/

Re: Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign

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Post by polote »

> was a team with great empathy and values, and a true desire to make this an acquisition that served all the human constituents as best as possible.

Every acquisition announcement almost paint the acquirer as an amazing company, that care deeply about the mission of the acquired company and that is aligned with its vision. But 99% of the time it is false.

This is especially false when the founders don't even stay in the company. We should allow founders to say "We sold the company to get money and do something else, we hope the acquiring company will take great care of our customers"

Re: Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign

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Post by sergiotapia »

shafyy wrote: post #38
mbStavola wrote: post #5

Extremely mixed feelings on this one. On one hand, it's awesome Wildbit was able to sell Postmark on their terms. To be able to build something, make money, and then walk away when you want is a huge accomplishment. Hats off to them. On the other hand, the reason I always chose Postmark over Sendgrid, MailChimp, et cetera, even though they were much smaller, is because they seriously cared about their customers. Supp…

Give MailPace a try [0]. The creator seems like a great guy, and the service does what it says without any bs. I've been using it for a while now for side projects, and can only recommmend it. 0: https://mailpace.com/

Do they offer templates? I couldn't find any mention of it in their docs.

As in, I write a template in mailpace.com with {{foobar}} placeholders, and make an API hit with the vars to replace.

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