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desheikhon Why is it so expensive to send an email?

Founder of EmailFig here. I agree the raw sending is the cheap part.

Most of the work goes into reputation management and customer support and in my experience, most of the cost is marketing.

For raw sending there are plenty of cheaper options, as others have mentioned. SES, for example, charges ~$0.10 per 1,000.

desheikhon Sendy Is Insecure: How Not to Implement ReCAPTCHA

I've seen cases where spammers abuse sign-up forms to generate spam (by using the name field for their content). Without server side validation it would be trivial for a malicious user to accomplish this.

Shameless plug - I run a hosted alternative to Sendy https://www.mailblast.io/

desheikhon TurboTax Freemium Funnel: Critical Analysis and UX Teardown

In Canada, I've switched over to https://simpletax.ca. It's free, (supported by donations), and works well even for more complicated filings.

desheikhon MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill

There are tons of hosted solutions for Amazon SES too, if your'e not interested in setting up your own solution.

Shameless plug: I run https://mailblast.io, a hosted email marketing solution powered by Amazon SES.

desheikhon Blue Apron, Struggling to Woo Investors, Lowers Price Range for IPO

I've done Chefs Plate and Good Food here in Toronto, and while they are great, for people like me living in the city, the delivery is not the most convenient aspect.

My local Supermarket chain, could just put up a rack with meal kits, and destroy most of their market.

desheikhon Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

Thanks! I'm actively working on enhancing the feature set to match what MailChimp etc provide.

If you try it out and find something you need missing, drop me a line and I'll see what I can do!

desheikhon Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

From what I understand you need an API endpoint to unsubscribe users from your list.

Try out the service and drop me a line, I'm sure I can accommodate your use case :)

desheikhon Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

Haha, thanks. I've been growing pretty well organically, but still feel a little odd pitching my service online.

I should just set up a referral program myself and let others do it for me :p

desheikhon Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

shameless plug

I built SimplerSES for the same reason - a cheaper alternative to MailChimp using AWS SES. It's built as a hosted service so theres no server costs, and you only pay for the emails you send out.

desheikhon Ask HN: What are you working on?

http://simplerses.com - A hosted email solution and newsletter delivery tool powered by Amazon SES. Been working on it as a side project for a while. Trying to put more time over the weekends now that I have a few paying customers.

desheikhon Startup idea list

Fedex already provides this service fedex.com/office

desheikhon Earthquake of magnitude 8.7 strikes off Sumatra, Indonesia

Some of the guys at the office here in Singapore felt the aftershock, but most people didn't notice.

desheikhon Kickstrap: Enhancements for Bootstrap

Rather than themes with a few color changes, what would be neater would be themes which actually modified the default style of bootstrap. As a developer using bootstrap and without any design skills, that would be far more helpful.

At least for me, none of the addons seem to add anything compelling to the default bootstrap for me to use it.