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Re: Really Good Emails

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Post by rayshan »

robbyking wrote: post #2

I like the idea -- a browsable archive of quality email layouts -- but most of the ones I looked at were pretty mediocre.

I agree, I think it's mostly just what the admins are getting themselves. There's a way to submit emails [1], but maybe the best model is to be the hacker news of email design (open submission, upvotes etc).

[1] http://reallygoodemails.com/contact/

Re: Really Good Emails

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Post by eli »

rayshan wrote: post #3
robbyking wrote: post #2

I like the idea -- a browsable archive of quality email layouts -- but most of the ones I looked at were pretty mediocre.

I agree, I think it's mostly just what the admins are getting themselves. There's a way to submit emails [1], but maybe the best model is to be the hacker news of email design (open submission, upvotes etc). [1] http://reallygoodemails.com/contact/

Comments and voting and community features are really hard to pull off. You can't just throw an up vote button and wait for good stuff to float to the top.

Re: Really Good Emails

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Post by chrislloyd »

robbyking wrote: post #2

I like the idea -- a browsable archive of quality email layouts -- but most of the ones I looked at were pretty mediocre.

If you'd like to see a better submission process, it's an open-source product on Assembly: https://assembly.com/really-good-emails. There's been lots of talk about just forwarding an email to an address and having the community vote on what they think are great emails. It also made $1350 last month which is split between contributors so there's some financial incentive for you to jump in :)

Re: Really Good Emails

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Post by bitsweet »

By the way, Really Good Emails is being built on Assembly as a community product. This means, its open sourced and revenue is split between the people developing it. You can see some of the improvements to the site everyone is planning:

https://assembly.com/really-good-emails/posts/latest-priorit... https://assembly.com/really-good-emails/projects/29

Re: Really Good Emails

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Post by the_af »

n0body wrote: post #6

I was hoping for comedy. Instead I got the emails I mark as spam/unsubscribe from. :(

Exactly what I was thinking. Seriously, the overall vibe I get from many of these emails is either "email from some service I subscribed to, sending a generic greeting/reminder", or "outright spam". Definitely nothing that would strike me as important.
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