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This is a big one many people miss.

One of the core features of Sendwithus that we DON'T talk about is the fact that we inline css for you at send time.

Such a pain to build out a inlining and testing workflow for content that should be in some kind of cms.

Hotmail has a dedicated abuse team, why not try getting in touch? There's no reason a legitimate invoice email shouldn't be getting through!

Thanks! This was a team effort, not just me :)

We like the idea of "purpose driven" templates, and that's why we've designed that way. Who thinks "I want a 3 column email template"? Most people think "I need to send a notification email". That's what we tried to design for.

The way we intend this is that if you redistribute the templates (say you host your own template gallery, or put them together as a zip you send people), then attribution would be nice.

If you're using the templates to send email, no attribution is required.

Thanks, that's super flattering for the whole sendwithus team!

That's why all the CSS is inlined for you as well :)

Glad we could help out!

We always encourage people to A/B test plain text versus HTML, and from the results seen it's entirely dependent on the audience.

If you're emailing developers, keep it clean/plain. Many consumers appreciate if an email "looks/feels like the website".

The Zurb Ink templates are great! We use them as a base for some of our templates as well.

The process of going from the Zurb template to something you might want to actually use often means people break the responsive elements of the template -- something we're hoping to avoid with this template gallery.

sendwithus cofounder; we've had a template gallery internally in the product since launch, but we felt that these templates were something that everyone should be able to use.

We didn't want to launch "just another template gallery", like many others, so we've made these open source. Contribute a pull request on github[0], we'll merge it, run it through Litmus and make sure it's still responsive. You can read about it on the 'about' page[1]

[0] https://github.com/sendwithus/templates

[1] https://www.sendwithus.com/resources/templates/about

I think they are two different problems. Either you're helping my business respond to customer requests more efficiently, or your making it dead simple for me to ask questions/order/talk to a business.

I don't see the business side of this being super interesting, but the consumer side is awesome.

An app where I can make any request to a business, through my phone, and you sort out the details? That's awesome.

What a pleasant surprise :) PH is a great community.

Drat, kinda bummed about this acquisition (as a customer), but congrats to the RIQ team on a great exit.

I'm another Slate user -- looks like Hydra is a spiritual successor... I'll give it a go.

Very few founders will talk so honestly about their fundraising, props to dmor.

I've seen a couple products in this space lately, definitely makes a lot of sense. Great demo :)

Nice! As another company in email, I know how difficult this can be to build. We'll have something like this at sendwithus.com soon. Kudos to the CampaignMonitor team :)

Huge instacart user, was wondering what was happening now that Amazon and Google are both moving into the space. It's awesome to see that they're winning.

It's really cool to see how these forms (looking like a terminal) can actually act as a tailored signup form for a specific audience.

An example, there are people to whom a facebook connect/login doesn't look scary, but to many hackers that's an instant "no thanks". A terminal-style signup? That may resonate better with hackers.

This is awesome, looking at how we could use it at sendwithus to replace/augment our current support systems.

+1 for Clerky; faster and more concise replies than my "startup specialized" lawyers.

Hey dangersilv, Matt here, co-founder of sendwithus. Get in touch (Matt at sendwithus dot com) and I'm more than happy to have an honest conversation about what you're trying to do, and what the right fit is.

I've told folks to use other products before (ask Grace at Watsi).

Worth pointing out that our (sendwithus) js library for calculating all of this is open source: github.com/sendwithus/confidence

Just booked a flight I'd been putting off; the new experience is worlds better than other airlines, though it still has its issues.

My favorite airline is still United; their website will let you get to the final billing page, and submit your cc, only to find that "that flight isn't available".

This is pretty cool; we've put a lot of work into sendwithus to solve many of these same problems (inline css at send time, staging versions of templates, and multiple types of api keys).

Kudos for having a README that actually makes sense.

Would it be within the YC wheel house to provide standard employee equity agreements (just like the YC note)?

Insurance on the moving is pretty interesting, though I'd worry about fraud eventually being an issue.

I met Sasan and Heidar at the hackathon where they first built TruckPlease. Neat concept that definitely solves a problem, and they're smart/friendly guys!

Super curious what their plans are to monetize (it looks like TP is currently completely free)?