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Show HN: Mailrecipe – API to send mass email without spamming your users
- QueensGambit 7y agoLast month, I spammed my users with emails. When the cron job in my application failed, it retried again and again and flooded my entire user base with emails. So, I wrote this API to avoid spamming. It ensures that my users won't get more than 1 email per day, irrespective of how my application behaves. What do you think? Feedback please?
- dubcanada 7y agoWhat backend do you use? What is your spam policy? Not really sure I fully understand the API.
- QueensGambit 7y agoI use SendGrid and Google Cloud (GAE) to send email. This API is a layer on top these 2 email services. This layer avoids unintentionally flooding your users with email. e.g: If your cron job uses SendGrid to send email, and you run that cron job 2 times by mistake, SendGrid will send 2 emails for each user. Instead, if your cron job uses my API to send email and you run that cron job 2 times, my API will send only 1 email for each user per day. Does that make sense?
- teddyh 7y agoI can’t get this page to load, but even if you only send one email per user per day, that could still very possibly be spam. https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/that-which-we-dont.html#one-time https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/that-which-we-dont.html#o...
- QueensGambit 7y agoThis is not for intentionally spamming users e.g: Cold emailing users who did not subscribe to your app. This is to avoid unintentionally flooding your users with email who have subscribed to your app. e.g: I ran my cron job 2 times because of a bug and it sent 2 emails for each user. Another example is retargeting email which are sent for every user visit. If a user visits multiple times on a day, you don't want to send more than 1 email on a single day. This API helps with that.
- teddyh 7y agoThen call it flooding, not spamming. Or “rate limiting”.
- QueensGambit 7y agoAh! Yes! That's much more accurate. I couldn't edit the post, but edited the API description. Thanks for the feedback!
- codeddesign 7y agoFYI - site is not mobile friendly
- QueensGambit 7y agoUnfortunately, it is an API marketplace and I don't have any control over it. Is it a must for APIs? Do you have any other suggestion for listing API?