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10k emails per month is generous. Maybe too generous. Selfishly I wish they didn't increase the price, but as a aspiring SaaS founder, it's totally fair that th

10k emails per month is generous. Maybe too generous. Selfishly I wish they didn't increase the price, but as a aspiring SaaS founder, it's totally fair that they did. They do provide value. But 625 emails per month amounts to around 20 emails per day. If you have 5 customers, then you can send them 4 emails per day. So not much. I wish they found a middle ground here.

ada1981 7y ago
Who cares though? If you have customers the cost to send an email is still almost zero.
- veeralpatel979 7y ago
  Sure the marginal cost of sending another email might be zero. But typically you price based on what people are willing to pay -- not based on costs.
  - ada1981 7y ago
    I may have confused you. I mean who cares if you have to pay for mail gun, it’s basically free.
    - veeralpatel979 7y ago
      I thought you were referring to Mailgun. I thought you were saying that since Mailgun has customers, and has built their email infrastructure already, the cost of providing a free service to people who aren't using the tool much is zero. Thanks for clarifying.
      - ada1981 7y ago
        Yeah I see how it sounded that way. Right the reverse is true, they are charging so little that if you have a customer it’s still almost free.
rapfaria 7y ago
What service sends 4 e-mails to your inbox everyday?
- veeralpatel979 7y ago
  Heroku, Sentry, Jira, GitHub, any service that's notifying me of events via email regardless of company size.
- crankylinuxuser 7y ago
  I have some free v1agra for you to buy from n1g3rian princ3.
  - NightlyDev 7y ago
    It's seems to be working though, everyone knows about the Nigerian Prince. He's really good at marketing.
    - jjeaff 7y ago
      Interesting thing about that. One might ask why any scammer still uses Nigerian prince tactics since it is so we'll know and so obviously a scam. The reason is that they are selecting for the most clueless marks. If you don't get a bunch of red flags from an email like that, then you are likely going to be an easy mark.
Jedd 7y ago
> But 625 emails per month amounts to around 20 emails per day. If you have 5 customers, then you can send them 4 emails per day. So not much. That's if you're sending email every day of the week. If it's just Mon-Fr then it's 30 emails per day. If you have 5 customers ... then you can hopefully afford USD$0.80 for 1000 emails / month.
corobo 7y ago
As a hypothetical customer please don’t send me 4 emails a day. Or week for that matter.
- veeralpatel979 7y ago
  Mailgun is transactional mail though. Not marketing mail. Mail that you want to receive like password resets, email confirmations, notifications, etc
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  - NightlyDev 7y ago
    I don't know about you, but I usually don't want to receive notification emails. Did you explicitly ask for it? Good. Is this some stupid notification that I won't care for and was enabled by default? Congratulations on getting flagged.
    - WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
      > Did you explicitly ask for it? Good That's what 'transactional' means... it's supposed to be used for the end or beginning of a transaction (reset password, receipt for a purchase, things like that...)
      - NightlyDev 7y ago
        No, that is not what transactional mail means, you're wrong. Things like friend requests are also transactional email by definition. So are those "you left your cart behind, want to complete the purchase?". That doesn't mean that you asked to receive it.
        corobo 7y ago
        Instead of being pedantic about it lets give it another name then. Whatever we call this new category of email that does not include password resets and does include friend requests and abandonment emails - don't send them 4x per day. Come on, sometimes it's better to be understood than to be right. Fuck the definition.
massaman_yams 7y ago
I send between 500 and 1000 per month through mailgun. On high-usage months, I will pay around $1. Even if I sent 5000 messages one month, I'd pay around $4. This is not even close to a significant cost.

ada1981 7y ago

Who cares though? If you have customers the cost to send an email is still almost zero.

veeralpatel979 7y ago
Sure the marginal cost of sending another email might be zero. But typically you price based on what people are willing to pay -- not based on costs.
- ada1981 7y ago
  I may have confused you. I mean who cares if you have to pay for mail gun, it’s basically free.
  - veeralpatel979 7y ago
    I thought you were referring to Mailgun. I thought you were saying that since Mailgun has customers, and has built their email infrastructure already, the cost of providing a free service to people who aren't using the tool much is zero. Thanks for clarifying.
    - ada1981 7y ago
      Yeah I see how it sounded that way. Right the reverse is true, they are charging so little that if you have a customer it’s still almost free.

rapfaria 7y ago

What service sends 4 e-mails to your inbox everyday?

veeralpatel979 7y ago
Heroku, Sentry, Jira, GitHub, any service that's notifying me of events via email regardless of company size.
crankylinuxuser 7y ago
I have some free v1agra for you to buy from n1g3rian princ3.
- NightlyDev 7y ago
  It's seems to be working though, everyone knows about the Nigerian Prince. He's really good at marketing.
  - jjeaff 7y ago
    Interesting thing about that. One might ask why any scammer still uses Nigerian prince tactics since it is so we'll know and so obviously a scam. The reason is that they are selecting for the most clueless marks. If you don't get a bunch of red flags from an email like that, then you are likely going to be an easy mark.

Jedd 7y ago

> But 625 emails per month amounts to around 20 emails per day. If you have 5 customers, then you can send them 4 emails per day. So not much. That's if you're sending email every day of the week. If it's just Mon-Fr then it's 30 emails per day. If you have 5 customers ... then you can hopefully afford USD$0.80 for 1000 emails / month.

corobo 7y ago

As a hypothetical customer please don’t send me 4 emails a day. Or week for that matter.

veeralpatel979 7y ago
Mailgun is transactional mail though. Not marketing mail. Mail that you want to receive like password resets, email confirmations, notifications, etc
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- NightlyDev 7y ago
  I don't know about you, but I usually don't want to receive notification emails. Did you explicitly ask for it? Good. Is this some stupid notification that I won't care for and was enabled by default? Congratulations on getting flagged.
  - WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
    > Did you explicitly ask for it? Good That's what 'transactional' means... it's supposed to be used for the end or beginning of a transaction (reset password, receipt for a purchase, things like that...)
    - NightlyDev 7y ago
      No, that is not what transactional mail means, you're wrong. Things like friend requests are also transactional email by definition. So are those "you left your cart behind, want to complete the purchase?". That doesn't mean that you asked to receive it.
      - corobo 7y ago
        Instead of being pedantic about it lets give it another name then. Whatever we call this new category of email that does not include password resets and does include friend requests and abandonment emails - don't send them 4x per day. Come on, sometimes it's better to be understood than to be right. Fuck the definition.

massaman_yams 7y ago

I send between 500 and 1000 per month through mailgun. On high-usage months, I will pay around $1. Even if I sent 5000 messages one month, I'd pay around $4. This is not even close to a significant cost.