"Completely free, no strings attached"
* Sees that I can't email from my own domain unless I pay. (I'm all for paying, but don't say completely free, no strings attached)
Show HN: I built an email marketing tool made for indie hackers and solopreneurs
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Re: Show HN: I built an email marketing tool made for indie hackers and solopreneurs
#12I wish there was more copy on this site about what the tool is and why it's useful. It looks interesting, but there's not enough information there for me to figure out if it's worth investing more. I could do the free version to find out, but it'd be nice to have a 2-3 min video or page that goes more in depth on the features that are there.
Valuable feedback, thank you for this! How would you feel about a demo video where I show you how to set it up and go through the features at the same time?
Features, sure. Common use cases solved by the features, even better.
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#13I'm an indie hacker and I send 2M emails per month on Sendgrid. It costs around $1k per month.
I use sendgrid because it just works, but I'm always curious when a new thing comes around and I'd love to save some money.
How does this work at scale?
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#15I think one of the big value-adds of email tools is they help emails not end up in spam. It would be good if the website mentioned this if it is something that Plunk helps with compared to sending your own emails.
It is very hard to make statements about this. It very much depends on the reputation of your own domain (if you are not using our domain to send your emails) and the content of your emails if they will end up in spam. I have yet to see one of my own emails origination from @useplunk.com end up in somebody's spam folder! I believe that is a great start and further down the line (with more data) I may be able to make…
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Re: Show HN: I built an email marketing tool made for indie hackers and solopreneurs
#16I wish there was more copy on this site about what the tool is and why it's useful. It looks interesting, but there's not enough information there for me to figure out if it's worth investing more. I could do the free version to find out, but it'd be nice to have a 2-3 min video or page that goes more in depth on the features that are there.
Valuable feedback, thank you for this! How would you feel about a demo video where I show you how to set it up and go through the features at the same time?
I agree that it would be helpful to show a simple use case on the home page. Maybe I'm not the target customer (although I am a soloproneur), but your user flow of (1) user clicking a button, (2) plunk receiving an event, (3) plunk sends an email, isn't really a problem that I have, since sending an email after an action is taken is pretty easy to manage. Are you are focusing on categorizing users into groups and sending them progressive emails?
Re: Show HN: I built an email marketing tool made for indie hackers and solopreneurs
#17I think one of the big value-adds of email tools is they help emails not end up in spam. It would be good if the website mentioned this if it is something that Plunk helps with compared to sending your own emails.
It is very hard to make statements about this. It very much depends on the reputation of your own domain (if you are not using our domain to send your emails) and the content of your emails if they will end up in spam. I have yet to see one of my own emails origination from @useplunk.com end up in somebody's spam folder! I believe that is a great start and further down the line (with more data) I may be able to make…
It sounds like the free version sends emails from the useplunk.com domain. If that is the case and some of those emails get marked as spam, won't all emails from the useplunk.com domain be more likely to be identified as spam?
Re: Show HN: I built an email marketing tool made for indie hackers and solopreneurs
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is very hard to make statements about this. It very much depends on the reputation of your own domain (if you are not using our domain to send your emails) and the content of your emails if they will end up in spam. I have yet to see one of my own emails origination from @useplunk.com end up in somebody's spam folder! I believe that is a great start and further down the line (with more data) I may be able to make…
It sounds like the free version sends emails from the useplunk.com domain. If that is the case and some of those emails get marked as spam, won't all emails from the useplunk.com domain be more likely to be identified as spam?
I have built-in an automatic catch, if x% (still looking at what a good value for x is) of your emails bounce then your account gets quarantined and we see what we can do about that. That way we can prevent damage before other users get affected.
Does that make sense?
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#19I'm an indie hacker and I send 2M emails per month on Sendgrid. It costs around $1k per month. I use sendgrid because it just works, but I'm always curious when a new thing comes around and I'd love to save some money. How does this work at scale?
At scale this should work fine. Some parts of the dashboard are not yet prepared for that amount of data to flow in though, may be hard to navigate and monitor.
I am also looking at the pricing for that because right now I offer unlimited emails but I need a good way to compensate for power users like yourself without going completely overboard.
Re: Show HN: I built an email marketing tool made for indie hackers and solopreneurs
#20"Completely free, no strings attached" * Sees that I can't email from my own domain unless I pay. (I'm all for paying, but don't say completely free, no strings attached)
I get what you mean by this!
Let me clarify what my way of thought is behind the "completely free, no strings attached". I do not ask for your credit card info, I don't put you on a trial that magically renews at the end of the month, I don't offer you a sketchy sign-on deal with an unexpected bill at the end of the month. I try to make it as ethical as possible, unlike some other marketing/emailing tools.
That is my meaning behind no strings attached. Of course I put some features behind a subscription because they demand significant work from my side (managing the domains is one of those).