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The "Send 37 emails" button which triggers an animation is a nice touch. Foreshadows the actual experience.
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> 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.
Hosted Looker and many other tools are getting direct DB access these days and I'm sure you use products that do it. As an engineer I'm not a fan of it and it can often cause problems so it's best to point them at read replicas but that is not always how companies set them up.
I think there are some good ideas here, but the target audience imho is not clear. Email marketing cheaper is a great attention grabber: kudos for the good copywriting. Step 1: Link to AWS SES... humm, for that your target audience must be tech-savvy. Step 2: Query your database... humm, linking my database to a strange system? No freaking way! But assume for an instant that this would be ok. For this, your target au…
Have you looked at something like https://grapesjs.com/ for templates?
You could always move to Brevo (formerly sendinblue) or Mailjet, it'd be cheap.
If you're sending 40k emails/mo it'd be €29-38 or €45 at Mailjet(50k)
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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.
Your private IP database isn’t unhackable either. A simple phishing attack can probably get someone’s VPN creds a nonzero percentage of the time.