mrmch

SENDWITHUS - Victoria, Canada and San Francisco

We make email easy for people building apps.

Learn more: https://www.sendwithus.com/about

We:

- based in Canada and San Francisco

- all hackers, even the non-technical folks

- 12% weekly revenue growth, no paid acquisition

- UX manifesto, "we make difficult things very simple"

- YC W14, VC backed

- liek open source: github.com/sendwithus/confidence

- have a sense of humour

You:

- backend or frontend hacker

- intermediate or senior experience

- get excited by large datasets

- know/can learn python

- have a sense of humor

Get in touch (github link > resume): jorbs@sendwithus.com

Startups are difficult; conviction and passion for what you're doing is imperative.

Looks cool (like the Authy integration), but you might want to make the Guide a little more visible (https://derivabit.com/guide).

That was the first thing I was looking for.

I've been using Povio for the last 3 months; pinging friends is incredibly fun, and the network effect it has is amazing.

Povio is a great way to stay in touch with remote friends.

Awesome, taking the bacon from Zerocater already

Their documentation has a pretty clear endpoint for sending raw audio: https://wit.ai/docs/api#toc_9

Hey Jimmy, I'm sorry to hear that was your experience.

I don't know when you found us, but it did take us time to roll out our A/B testing; we never intended to string anyone along.

If you're willing to chat offline about your experience, please get in touch: matt@sendwithus.com

Some people seem to be missing that first screenshot; the landing page clearly started with "Start The Demo" (http://sendwithus.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Sc...)

if they come knocking... ;)

Perhaps if we were accepting pre-orders or requiring a credit card. A soft launch like this would be more comparable to a focus group for a traditional product launch.

This depends on your goal; in 24 hours, seeing 800 uniques and 100 signups was enough validation for us to take things to the next stage.

Interesting story Daniel -- there should be an "Optimizely for the button to nowhere" product!

This is actually a good point -- the "button to nowhere" product is particularly valuable at an early stage.

We're working on a followup story on how we do customer development/feedback with a established product.

Our experience was to the contrary. It's not shown in the blog post, but users were thanked for their feedback immediately.

The reaction was overwhelmingly positive; people were excited that we were building something in this space.

Absolutely, you can sign up for our goodies newsletter here: https://www.sendwithus.com/resources/bulletproof-html-email-...

Absolutely :)

Aw, not all email is spam. Be conscious of the customer; while developers (you) prefer less/no email, many non technical people find it very valuable and have a different tolerance.

Let us know what else you might find useful ;]

We're stoked to be sharing some of the expertise we have around html email. Be on the look out for even more email goodies very soon!

Congrats to Todd and the team; this is a positive outcome.

Flying with US Airways this past week; 8 flights in 4 days, 5/8 flights were delayed, causing missed connections, etc.

How I wish AirHelp was available in the US :(

We're (sendwithus.com) proud to be a partner -- I think this is really huge, having implemented many of these API's before. Just knowing what's possible with a product/API can be difficult, and pulling in an outside expert can really help at that.

I think it's also a really awesome way for a startup like us to test if there's value in us having services that share our subject matter expertise.

+1 for a JSON API, that could be really useful. The "Email API" as it stands now is valuable, definitely saves time googling every sign up.

Title had me worried for a moment! The whole team wanted shirts, so we loaded up -- we're going to wear that blue contraband with pride.

Like the new name; 'two tap' checkout definitely sounds like something I want.

Thanks for the feedback, and woo +1 future customer :)

Our developers page is really new, so there's definite room for improvement. 1+2 definitely need a look tonight.

3. The UI here could use work; the template is actually in the horizontal section ABOVE the curl box ...

You can signup (no cc required) and check the editor out, or just watch our getting started video (which we need to make more public): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQhLeBU9wrs

4. Yup, responsive emails included out of the box. We'll be adding more templates shortly (a lot of requests for this lately!)

That's pretty impressive! When you really look at it, every company needs this at some point. It's just a question of if you want to spend the resources/time building it internally, or if you want to focus on your core product :)

Yep, that's the exact workflow we're replacing! Think of the experience for the marketing guy -- after those changes are committed, how can he measure what affect they had?

I wanted to highlight our (open source) API clients, covering most languages: https://github.com/sendwithus

Here's all the code required to send an email with our Python client:

   api.send(email_id='YOUR-EMAIL-ID',
       recipient={'address': 'us@sendwithus.com'})

There are more complex examples covering unique senders, cc/bcc, dynamic data, and attachments, but it's good to get a sense of how much complexity this can remove from your codebase.

Sendwithus is for your transactional/triggered email you're sending through Mailgun; a signup or notification email. At a basic level, get your product email out of your source code, and get the benefits of a dedicated templating product.