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If you could make the output size much more manageable, and have it actually be usable for larger images, I think newsletter publishers would love the hell out
by JonLim 15y ago
If you could make the output size much more manageable, and have it actually be usable for larger images, I think newsletter publishers would love the hell out of this. The only external image I can think of that they would want for tracking is the one they use for open tracking, otherwise all other images are fair game, AFAIK.
Definitely something that I would love to keep tabs on if you do continue to develop it, do you have a github repo I can watch?
- dwwoelfel 15y agodo you have a github repo I can watch? https://github.com/dwwoelfel https://github.com/dwwoelfel My github repo is pretty barren. I probably won't put any updates there. However, I have your email from your profile. If I make a decent improvement to the output size, I'll send you an email. I won't forget. I put a reminder in my gmail drafts folder and my calender prompts me to check it once a month. You have me more excited about this then I was when I released the app, but I'm still not certain that a market exists. My hypothesis is that the people who make the email newsletters include extra external images on purpose so that the recipient will think he's missing something. Then he'll be motivated to click the "display all images from this sender" link, enabling the tracking image in the process.
- JonLim 15y agoPerhaps that is what happens, and it may even be true for transactional mail, but having icons and small images show up without having to click that button seems to be much better for the UX. The tracking image is wildly inaccurate anyway, but whatever, that's just my opinion.