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PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API

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Re: PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API

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post #8

That pricing isn't too bad for SMS messages but it is VERY high for emails. Simplicity has value but I'm not sure it has that much value.

It's basically 10x what Mailgun charges, which is pretty reasonable overhead imo. $10 to send 1,000 email notifications to your team is peanuts. People will 100% pay that.

Why would I pay to send an email?

Re: PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's basically 10x what Mailgun charges, which is pretty reasonable overhead imo. $10 to send 1,000 email notifications to your team is peanuts. People will 100% pay that.

Why would I pay to send an email?

Deliverability.

Re: PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's basically 10x what Mailgun charges, which is pretty reasonable overhead imo. $10 to send 1,000 email notifications to your team is peanuts. People will 100% pay that.

Why would I pay to send an email?

Beacause these types of services go to great effort to keep their repuation high on email services. You use these services so your 1000's emails get delivered instead of being rated as spam or being blacklisted.

Re: PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API

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Although I truly think this is a fantastic product, both in the simplicity of the offering and the simplicity of the API, I was a little concerned about being able to use my own domain and phone number when sending messages, for the sake of building trust with my users. Also, I (selfishly, perhaps) have more faith in the reliability of an established service than something recently launched. For anyone who has simila…

> Also, I (selfishly, perhaps) have more faith in the reliability of an established service than something recently launched.

This was my thought as well. I've had a number of projects where I had to deliver large numbers of emails and SMS and the problem has never been the design of the API I used to send them. It's always about the delivery rates of those messages. Particularly with SMS we've had to be very careful with our providers, often needing to select a different one in different countries.

Re: PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API

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post #5
post #3

Can't easily find how much it costs? I definitely want to try it out :)

Pricing: API keys cost $10 for each 1,000 messages and last one year. It's right above the BUY API KEY button.

I don't see it either. Maybe an A/B experiment gone wrong?

Re: PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's basically 10x what Mailgun charges, which is pretty reasonable overhead imo. $10 to send 1,000 email notifications to your team is peanuts. People will 100% pay that.

Why would I pay to send an email?

You wouldn't. A lot of people would.

Re: PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API

#29
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pricing: API keys cost $10 for each 1,000 messages and last one year. It's right above the BUY API KEY button.

I don't see it either. Maybe an A/B experiment gone wrong?

https://i.imgur.com/h7gtV4L.png

It's just fairly small and not distinguished.

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