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Hey Christian, valid feedback. As a product/business scales, small problems of modifying templates (and AB testing, etc) get magnified, and in house solutions don't scale.

You're correct Denis, our developer page purely speaks to the "get templates out of source code" value prop -- maybe a mistake, but it was something we were testing today :)

That's pretty cool Denis. We don't have an official .Net client yet, but we do have some solid code samples for our REST API.

In our experience email templates are a little different from regular HTML templates; things like built-in css inlining, A/B testing, and giving access to non-technical folks.

Cool Bart, look forward to seeing it! In our experience internal systems can't compare with the product a dedicated team can build. I've had many conversations with companies moving away from a poor internal solution.

That being said, huge fan of open source and there's plenty of room for products and tools in this space :)

Thanks Frank! The reason we tier on customers is that we sit on top of an esp like Mailgun, which already bill per transaction.

Thanks for the suggestions, we'll revise this tonight.

Thanks! Complex products like exact target or constant contact really hinder development; our hope is to make everyone's lives easier.

That may be confusing because we focus on transactional email, not campaign email (which subscriber would suggest)

Hi Kulte, we support SES for delivery right now!

An active user is someone you've sent an email to in a given month, regardless of volume. So you could send 10,000 emails to 1,000 unique email addresses and you're billed for 1,000 customers.

Any suggestions on how to better describe that?

Allowing email id's to be specified is something we've considered, but for now static id's we auto generate are simple enough.

We encourage our customers to use a static "mapping", with constants set to each template id. IE WELCOME_EMAIL = '12345'

Not only is transactional email a great referral channel (just look at what Dropbox did), it's also ripe for optimization.

Engagement emails are used by almost every kind of app to facilitate user actions, but by being trapped in source code, the people who care about user experience and metrics can't take action to improve them.

Thanks Avlok, we feel sendwithus is an important building block in any modern web app.

Brad (bvanvugt) and I are pretty excited to be announcing this; I think we're one of the first Canadian companies from BC to be part of YC.

Hey Greg, awesome feedback. This definitely wasn't meant as a quantitive analysis of our acquisition channels, as you point out. The goal was to elaborate on what channels we use, and how our strategy has changed.

I definitely agree, there's nothing wrong with riding the backs of related companies! It's an amazing way to grow, if things align.

If there's enough interest I'd like to explore a more metrics driven post -- we definitely have that data :)

Let us@sendwithus.com know what you like best and we'll send you a surprise :)

Thanks for the note, looks like someone doesn't have spellcheck enabled in Vim.

Edit: Fixed! In case anyone is wondering, here's a quick tutorial on how to enable spellcheck in vim: https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/357267:using-spell-che...

Thanks shravan, fixed that now!

Important to highlight that Taplytics is just 1 (ish) line of code to implement, which makes it incredibly easy to get setup.

I chatted with Cobi about this before, but being able to segment your A/B test based on the install source (paid vs organic) would be seriously cool.

Amazon style one-click checkout for the rest of the internet?

Text of the blog post is good, but a few more screenshots walking though "this is what it actually does" and a list of support merchants to try it out on would be awesome!

This is really awesome... have to figure out a way to get it to work with our python/django stack. Maybe for landing/un-authenticated pages.

Kudos to Matt and Brendan on the landing page design -- very few "Show HN" landing pages actually convey what the product does!

Seems like a fairly inefficient algorithm -- could replace lines 6-44 with

%request homejoy.com/cleaning

This is incredibly valuable for any app that has an invite viral loop. Kudos to the Tapstream guys for making this free!

The "visualize some words" graph is awesome; took me a minute to realize it was interactive. I'd be interested in another post about how Minuum incorporates personal typing habits over time.

Very happy Tuft & Needle customer chiming in -- both my girlfriend and myself bought one, absolutely love these mattresses and the company behind them!

The OnDemand VPN hack is pretty cool -- I'm left wondering how/if this can be transferred to Android? Is it any harder because third party browsers are much more prevalent on Android?

2gb of Ram is disappointing, extra memory really helps a smart phone keep up after two years of use.

The idea that this is a "problem" is subjective; if the value prop is compelling and there is sufficient trust established, someone should be free to use Mailboxapp OR Intro.

Isn't this the exact same approach taken by Mailboxapp, proxying your IMAP server?

Hey AJ, send me an email (matt@sendwithus.com) and I'll see what we can do -- we're always looking for more integrations!