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Don't listen to the haters -- this is exactly what many of use were looking for.
Now only if you had better priced plans for smaller volumes...
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It’s listed on the Data page! No need to open the database up to the whole internet. Just whitelist one IP.
Doesn't matter. The database still is on a public subnet on customer's network. All it takes is for someone to jack up some kind of white list or access rule and the entire database is exposed. It's an attack vector. You can't do this nearly as easily when the database is in a private subnet w/ no access to internet.
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My first thought when I read this post was “did you try someone besides MailChimp?” My understanding is that they’re not really a market leader and that there are competing solutions that are either better, cheaper, or both. That said I think this is an interesting niche to be in, because I think there are some customers out there who don’t need the technical hand-holding of other marketing platforms.
How do you define market leader? In 2021 they had 14 million paying customers and a market share of 72 percent. If that’s not a market leading position, I don’t know what is. I don’t favor them, it’s a real pain sometimes, but they operate a tanker, not a speed boat.
While they are the market leader in marketshare, they're losing marketshare rapidly. [1]
Now that they're owned by Intuit, I only expect the product to get worse.
OP's product seems to allow you to get more specific about segmentation, which is something that a rapidly growing MailChimp competitor Klaviyo seems to excel at, as an example. [2]
Here's more discussion about email marketing automation, it seems as though there are a lot of choices: https://www.reddit.com/r/Emailmarketing/comments/wriew9/best...
I know this is probably no more than a side project for OP, but if I was in their shoes I probably wouldn't have started building this kind of thing myself if I hadn't tried at least 3 other alternatives. Email marketing/marketing automation is a very deep specialty, so I think you have to really be sure that there's nothing suitable off the shelf before you wade into building your own solution. I feel like it's not much different than building your own database for your application. I would want to be really sure that there isn't one already out there that fits my needs before building my own.
[1] https://www.emailtooltester.com/en/blog/mailchimp-market-sha...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Emailmarketing/comments/apu08p/klav...
Just want to chime in directly against the flow of negative comments re: security and say two things: 1) I too am exactly in your target audience and I'm psyched to check this out (I'm the solo tech operator of an ecom business and this will exactly scratch an itch I have) 2) I'll echo what I wrote in another comment: It is VERY HN to get concerned about exposing databases, and folks who are posting about the securit…
> Users want this The customers of those users absolutely do not want this. If I ever find out a company uses something like this, I'll no longer be doing business with them. > So while you should absolutely make sure this is done properly That is simply not possible.
I second this 100%
This for me is a major red flag. It could maybe be mitigated if OP would require customers to run their own instance of cc.dev.
Just want to chime in directly against the flow of negative comments re: security and say two things: 1) I too am exactly in your target audience and I'm psyched to check this out (I'm the solo tech operator of an ecom business and this will exactly scratch an itch I have) 2) I'll echo what I wrote in another comment: It is VERY HN to get concerned about exposing databases, and folks who are posting about the securit…
During that time, they would have configured things and probably sent a few emails successfully. Just enough to have told their boss and gotten kudos.
Just want to chime in directly against the flow of negative comments re: security and say two things: 1) I too am exactly in your target audience and I'm psyched to check this out (I'm the solo tech operator of an ecom business and this will exactly scratch an itch I have) 2) I'll echo what I wrote in another comment: It is VERY HN to get concerned about exposing databases, and folks who are posting about the securit…
> Users want this The customers of those users absolutely do not want this. If I ever find out a company uses something like this, I'll no longer be doing business with them. > So while you should absolutely make sure this is done properly That is simply not possible.
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The target market is someone who 1. is tech-savvy and runs an app/service with a bunch of users 2. has tried existing emailing platforms and feel that they're too expensive 3. wants full freedom of who they target their emails to A tech-savvy person could make their own solution, and that's what I wanted to do with my site CubeDesk, but it's surprisingly difficult and time-consuming, which gave me the idea for this s…
Sendy ( https://sendy.co/ ) ticks all those boxes, plus it is self-hosted, so I don't need to share my database with anyone.
Just want to chime in directly against the flow of negative comments re: security and say two things: 1) I too am exactly in your target audience and I'm psyched to check this out (I'm the solo tech operator of an ecom business and this will exactly scratch an itch I have) 2) I'll echo what I wrote in another comment: It is VERY HN to get concerned about exposing databases, and folks who are posting about the securit…
I wonder if these are the same people that are pushing things like Planetscale, Neon, Supabase etc. I have nothing against these services but from what I can see most users discussing these are going with the "public" database approach.
i.e. if your database is already public, what's the complaint?