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Surprising how poor the reception for this kind of research is.. it's 2019, porn/adult entertainment is a huge industry. I'd expect the tech industry at least to be more open to discussing it.

Interesting and scary research... Maybe link directly to the about page?

Currently trialing Meetingbird, mostly for scheduling interviews across two offices and finding time slots that work for all involved.

Aside from an invite snafu I've been impressed with the scheduler.

This is awesome news for Mailgun customers, kudos to Will and the Mailgun team for pulling this off.

Mailgun has one of the best inbound/outbound API combinations available, great for companies with a strong developer team.

Super stoked to see this announcement, I know Garry has been cranking on the new fund.

Canadian founders, Garry+Alexis are super canuck friendly, some of the best investors we have :)

Is Textur (https://www.textur.com/) an alternative to Wagon?

Just echo'd this in my own comment; as mark says you will get false positives and high spam reports.

I would be very cautious using Anymailfinder.com to generate email lists -- based on this copy on anymailfinder.com:

Anymail finder uses many approaches to find emails—it searches billions of web pages and performs direct server validation.

The original SMTP spec allows for email address validation, and there are tricks like opening an SMTP connection to a mail server and dropping it half way if the address is verified -- but these are the same "tricks" that spammers use, so many mail servers disable or report false positives. There's a reason why most lead services have a high price: they have actually verified an email address.

Next, sending cold emails to business is OK (sometimes annoying but legally ok), but the copy on makesmail.com has a broken link (1) and doesn't clearly describe how to cold email and be legally compliant. From the horses mouth: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can...

Regardless, congratulations on building up to $1,500 MRR, that is a milestone most side projects never reach!

Haha, we'll work on better food line throughput next year :)

For running a developer event like BattleSnake.io, C9 is amazing.

After a few years of headaches trying to help students get their local dev environments setup, we started recommending Cloud9 to all Students. Definitely the way of the future.

Congrats to the Revlo team, awesome to see more Canadians doing great things w/ YC :)

That's fair feedback (pricing is per recipient), but it reflects the cost of running our service (we store data about your customers long term, which adds up more than the cost of each individual send).

We had more than a few really worried people reach out (before this thread), this change is very worrying to some. I'll dial it back though, thanks!

To save you some time, we have a blog post covering the criteria to use: http://blog.sendwithus.com/which-email-service-provider-shou...

I'm biased (as the cofounder), but I strongly believe that you should treat email delivery as a commodity and use a product like Sendwithus.com on top of it.

If you want to enjoy SendGrid deliverability but a different interface, check us out: sendwithus.com

We're designed as a higher level on top of email deliverability, offering some pretty rich features (email storing, great A/B testing, drip campaigns...)

Hey folks, cofounder of Sendwithus.com here -- we're a layer on top of Mandrill, SendGrid, Sparkpost, etc. You can hot swap backends with us, making a change trivial. We're also experts on all these platforms so can advice cost vs support.

Hit our support team (support@sendwithus.com) if you have any questions, we have a super rich feature set that goes beyond what these products provide.

Happy to discuss discounts for folks making the switch to us, email me: matt@sendwithus.com

Also check us out: https://www.sendwithus.com/docs/templating

Our template engine (Jinja) is the most advanced of any email platform out there.

We do this (Sendwithus.com) -- not only see email with all personalization, but see it on the device a customer used (was the link really broken on an iPhone?)

Check us out (Sendwithus.com, yc w14)

Unlimited templates, and you can swap out backends (SendGrid, SparkPost, others)

Matt here, Sendwithus founder -- Live Chat is great, but it's really important to consider that most of the "big hacks" in the news are the result of social engineering.

Vancouverites -- Victoria is a very real option. You don't have to sacrifice ocean or mountains, and can afford to buy a home (and then some).

https://github.com/sendwithus/vic-startup-jobs

Author here (matt) -- would be interested in hearing if other companies have had issues with attacks on their live chat or support services.

I found this article about Amazon really interesting: https://medium.com/@espringe/amazon-s-customer-service-backd...

Thirded! Peter is awesome, have referred him to many people with great success.

I would really recommend reading the whole article, but especially the middle half discussing how Kik is bringing in brands.

It sounds like a texting interface for an AI for major sites; really cool.

Good feedback; I wonder (operationally) which is trickier to switch (payroll or benefits provider).

Has anyone done a breakout comparison of Zenefits vs Gusto (/zenpayroll)?

There has to be quite a few companies who have benefits with Zenefits and payroll in Gusto; wondering what's ideal moving forward.

As a foreign founder who went through the complexity of setting up "legacy" hr/benefits/etc in another country, Zenefits was a huge aid in navigating the bureaucratic nightmare in the US.

I feel like this is the founders story to tell, not some medium blog. Not that you can't learn anything from this, but Adora and Aaron have the most insight, and deserve the chance to share it (if they chose to).

It's a fair point to highlight what constitutes a true transactional email, but the content of this guide does cover both transactional and triggered emails (Welcome or registration email is one example of a transactional email covered).

This is the PERFECT attitude to email. Companies that do this really well (AirBnb for ex), their emails look and feel just like their website, and always focus on highlighting the relevant information.