dejan

Hi, thank you for your comments. It depends how you look at it. All email services have limits. However, the limits we set are more as a protection for ourselves and our users.

We have to deal with spammers, phishing attacks etc. We diversify based on the actual, realistic needs of the organisation. For instance, a startup of 3 would not need to send 500 emails a day, that is a clear red flag. In practice we have yet to have a case of a user reaching those limits. Thanks again!

Thank you for taking the time to share your workflow.

You've got a point. We should support this. You can expect it very soon.

I use aliases for that reason, much cleaner IMHO.

Actually, you can also with Migadu, for free. You'll just get a "Sent via Migadu" signature on the bottom. And almost free without the signature :)

However, if you need to send thousands of messages a day, you are probably sending automated mails, transactional or newsletters. Migadu is not intended for that, just as Gmail isn't.

You don't need Mailgun for that either, you can setup your own server to send mails on DO, or go for Amazon SES (Simple Email Service), cost is negligible.

Good idea, but don't you think it can get a bit crazy if you need to do that for multiple persons on multiple domains?

We were also doing similar combinations for our startup projects via Google Apps and Mandrill, but it was getting very messy. I just wanted a new domain / new email address, fast. Nothing else. Somehow I would end up with multiple Google accounts, and then Google cut of the free accounts... Interestingly, Mandrill announced the same thing today. I'd rather give up two cups of coffee a month and not waste brainwaves and worries on this admin.

Migadu is meant to get email admin out of people's way so they can focus on more important stuff.

The downside is that you will catch all spam too, and more importantly you will not bounce back the message to the sender informing them they've sent to the wrong address.

I don't understand the question: Gmail has one address and it is not on your domain? Can you elaborate please?

Simple use case: you've got several startup projects with different domains, and multiple addresses on it. Migadu makes that painless. Family domain with emails for the whole family? Easy.

And..of course there are many alternatives. No intention to reinvent email here. Just making things more pleasurable to manage and use, by getting them out of the way.

Honestly, the limitation is there so we start a conversation, and figure out a better pricing. It's easy to slam 10 different plans on the page, but it just adds to the confusion, and none to the learning. We're maybe overthinking simplification...

If you think Migadu could work for your agency, lets get in touch, the limit of 100 is customizable.

We intentionally don't do it, after long debate. Why would you want a catch-all, curiously?

yes - on the free plan, 10 per day, per Migadu account.

Hi @aeden, Dejan from Migadu here. Thanks for the check-up :) Migadu has to pickup the DNS changes in order to activate the domain, otherwise it won't accept mails for it.

Webmail, yes quite basic, we're hoping to make it even more basic. No intentions to replace GMail :)

hmm. i wouldn't jump to conclusions. I am a Serbian national. On multiple occasions I have been called Yugo, a "gypsy", Slav because of my name, and also have given attitude due to my accent. Don't talk about other people unless you know how it feels.

I think you can induce it from the name. Sorry to hear, had it happen to me on a few occasions too, but I just decided it's not worth the fight.

i guess that is the part of the "adventure" in AirBnb :D

if you had one bad experience, that left you bitter, would you use it again?

probably because you are dealing with a third party to resolve these

exactly my thinking. If they do take deposit, they should take it on both sides, and have proper a arbiter. The guests bring their valuables too.

After this, likewise. I've just booked a hotel in NYC instead, I want to relax on my trip, and not think about these issues and have peace of mind, so I can focus on the reason why I am traveling at first place.

Your points about food and exercise apply to both AirBnb and hotels?

Thus, one goes to hotel and most often to AirBnb just to sleep over, not to "live" there.

I would generally agree with you, but your thinking is along the lines of "cheaper", in every point.

Cheaper sometimes gets more expensive and then you change the opinion. The author mentions he was a heavy AirBnb user, just as you are. It's interesting to read about the causes that make one's perspective change.

new link: http://pastebin.com/QqMbAgsF

how is it lightweight if it is built on top of Backbone.js?

+1 Very true, we should not read queries as math expressions. As I wrote there, the reason being is that mysql's query optimizer rewrites this query into EXISTS (SELECT 1) which will run for each row of the outer query.

(I'm the author)

One idea is implicitly expressed with the project we're working on SyncFu. Business is based on transactions towards individuals. Economies of scale are still in the scope of that individual transaction. Can this be changed?

Also, can business be done decentralized, so that it follows the crowd instead of depending on attracting it?

I am sorry if that wasn't clear, I wanted to stay as detached from own project while expressing general feeling. I think it's more clear in the "Our Introduction" post on the same blog.

You mention "authentic digital artifacts". To me this is the most important thing missing in the web. How you address it is 2nd. However, I am not sure CCNX is the right path to go. While the need is there, their implementation doesn't make sense.

Something as fundamental should be ubiquitous and dead simple to use, without mentioning any code, programs, daemons or nodes to end users.

Also, they are very poor in sending a message. I don't have an hour to watch their video presentation just to figure it out what it is. (unfortunately I had to)

I don't buy this. If this guy wanted a ka-boom, he'd succeeded.

And this?

"Despite his name being added to the government's no-fly list on Monday, Mr Shahzad managed to buy a ticket on an Emirates flight to Dubai and made it through JFK's security checks late that evening."

"Mr Shahzad was arrested on Monday 3 May after boarding a flight to Islamabad, Pakistan."

Crashed three times on Mac. Once I had to restart the system.

With a man-in-the-middle between product and service providers, both later are at a loss. Customers could get a higher discount, while the providers could make (more) profits. Exposure is overrated imho with groupon's army of clones, as the crowd is nomadic and isn't loyal. Moreover it may bend perceptions and expectations for the future.

Long term effect of these deals are none to negative, as they may easily cannibalize regular business. Volumes of customers in the services business essentially requires time. That's obvious for the article above where costs of paralel servicing are very high (other helicopters).

Shameless self-promotion: our startup is changing that by removing the intermediary and seller fees with a simple widget for web shops. Unlike others with restricted applications in services, we've made it universally applicable to anything that sells online and offline, above $30 most likely. It's meant to work as sister button to the Add to Cart - _Join Group Buy_.

It is more than a marketing/advertising tool. It is a new way of seeing shopping.

While the exposure comes through the clever system of incentives, we're working on much more by opening the deals information to the world in real time.

http://www.syncfu.com

I'm glad a person can have an own opinion here =)