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https://emailoctopus.com https://emailoctopus.com - for cheap email marketing via SES. Submitted to the usual channels (HN, PH, Reddit) and saw a spike in traf
by jonathanbull 10y ago
https://emailoctopus.com https://emailoctopus.com - for cheap email marketing via SES.
Submitted to the usual channels (HN, PH, Reddit) and saw a spike in traffic. But what really worked was not charging anything for 3 months - people are much more keen to tweet/blog about something if it's free. They're also a lot more forgiving if they run into a bug (of which I used to have many!).
- jackpointnl 10y agoCould you build something like this but for transactional email? I send i trough SES but I dont have send, open and read stats.
- jonathanbull 10y agoAt the moment we're focusing on the marketing side (vs transactional), but it's something we've considered for the future. Hopefully Amazon will beat us to it!
- iamben 10y agoI really love the idea of this - and I'm fully on board when you get custom fields!
- deecewan 10y agoI built something like this a while back. Used SES to do transactional/marketing emails with custom fields. I should find out what happened to that project.