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Re: Cloudflare Email Service

#21

While we’re adding antiquated and shitty ways to interface with your agent, can we add fax support? Maybe direct-to-mail service for postcards and flyers?

I knew I hung onto that C64 cassette player for a reason! Beyond the new Sturgill album, I mean.

Re: Cloudflare Email Service

#23
A classic "the tragedy of the commons" with the SMTP protocol.

When the cost of spamming is near 0.00, all open platforms will be abused to the tilt. We have seen the email channel get less and less reliable with our own clients (password recovery, notifications and etc).

This might evolve into a couple of oligopolies (Microsoft 365 Outlook, Google Gmail, may be some legacy email providers like Yahoo) and if you want delivery you'd need to pay them, because they'd be the verifiers that you're not a spammer.

And these platforms will have a hell of time to fight the spammers that will create millions of email addresses and spam trough them.

Re: Cloudflare Email Service

#25
post #6

Oof. I know of a startup that recently Show HN'd here, the agent mail.to, that is NOT having a good time right now. I don't know what all these new startups having moats thinner than Durex are thinking -- like, what the plan if someone does what you do, faster and cheaper?

> We raised $6M in Seed Funding

Well that part was impressive. It looks like they focused on receiving emails, that is probably even worse, as I expect OpenAI/Anthropic to add such ability directly to agents, if it really is useful.

Re: Cloudflare Email Service

#26
post #6

Oof. I know of a startup that recently Show HN'd here, the agent mail.to, that is NOT having a good time right now. I don't know what all these new startups having moats thinner than Durex are thinking -- like, what the plan if someone does what you do, faster and cheaper?

> new startups having moats thinner than Durex are thinking

Haha, great visual. Really illustrative of what these AI startups and bootstrapped indie developers are dealing with (and, if I had to guess, why most of them don't go anywhere).

Re: Cloudflare Email Service

#27

$0.35 per 1,000 emails it's fair pricing. Looks better than fixed $20 for Resend.

Yep, and I'm both a Cloudflare and Resend customer.

I like Resend, a lot, but this is probably something I can't pass up, especially if it does what it says on the tin

Re: Cloudflare Email Service

#28
Did anyone ask the poor people who unknowingly send mail to someone who feeds it to an AI surveillance company?

It would be interesting to send GDPR requests and have Cloudflare figure out all of the parties who got or use your mail.

Re: Cloudflare Email Service

#29
It's funny. All the examples they show in the blogpost are just things that were already pretty easy without agents. Sending an email when the CI pipeline passes, when a support request is incoming, when an order is shipped. I think we haven't found a problem for this solution.

Re: Cloudflare Email Service

#30

> Everyone already has an email address, which means everyone can already interact with your application or agent. And your agent can interact with anyone. please no. > Sending email that actually reaches inboxes usually means wrestling with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records. When you add your domain to Email Service, we configure all of it automatically. Your emails are authenticated and delivered, not flagged as spam. t…

Sure you can, look at Spain ;-)
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