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Would somebody care to sell me on why this is superior to SendGrid or Amazon Simple Email Service? (Or perhaps what use cases it better serves.)
by jsdalton 15y ago
Would somebody care to sell me on why this is superior to SendGrid or Amazon Simple Email Service? (Or perhaps what use cases it better serves.)
- ryanb 15y agoAs far as I know, most e-mail products focus only on sending e-mails and not receiving them. Mailgun works both ways.
- hajrice 15y agoSendgrid accepts incoming emails: http://nanceskitchen.com/2010/02/21/accept-incoming-emails-into-a-heroku-app-using-sendgrid/ http://nanceskitchen.com/2010/02/21/accept-incoming-emails-i...
- Johngibb 15y agoMy interpretation is that this provides a mailbox API, to provision and maintain mailboxes on THEIR servers. Doesn't sendgrid just perform a restful post when an email is received rather than store it and all? Almost akin to pop vs imap.
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- old-gregg 15y agoActually we do "everything email": Detailed searchable mail logs: we actually tell you what happens to every single one of your messages - nobody else is that brave! Incoming email push - and our parsing/cleanup of incoming traffic is pretty impressive - if it's time to self-promote, it's now. And our incoming email handling if flexible: we do routing/forwarding, similar to Rails/Django routes. Storing/hosting your email traffic and giving POP3/IMAP access to it - nothing stops you from giving each user of your app their own email address. Some customers do that very, very creatively. Piping it through some battle-tested Mixpanel-powered analytics doesn't hurt too: some companies charge an arm and a leg just for that one feature. Mailgun is not about merely pushing mail, we're more of an "sexy programmable ESP" :) We're just a bunch of oddballs who thought that running an ESP business would be fun!
- jsdalton 15y agoI'm a happy SendGrid customer, but I'll definitely give you guys a look. Thanks for the details.
- lftl 15y agoThis a completely off-topic and pendantic, but I just thought I'd throw this out there. On this page: http://mailgun.net/pricing http://mailgun.net/pricing I personally have a hard time parsing how much money $0.5 is. I'm assuming you're charging 50 cents per 1K messages. My mind groks $0.50 per 1K messages, much more easily.
- old-gregg 15y agoGreat feedback, we'll fix this - thank you!
- z92 15y agoAlso write it as "per thousand" messages. For the first 10 minutes I was reading it as 50 cents per kilo byte ( 1KB ? ) of message which sounded expensive.
- mtogo 15y agoThanks for sneaking a grok in there. HN just wouldn't be the same without hipster buzzwords!
- rokhayakebe 15y agoDoes a product have to always be superior to its competitors in order to exist?
- jsdalton 15y agoNope. I was genuinely curious whether and how Mailgun was superior to those products.
- seanp2k 15y agoNo, but if it isn't, then why even bother launching it?
- mgkimsal 15y agopurely for competition. to some degree, customers make up their own minds about what's "better" when comparing two products/services that may be identical in functionality and pricing. Someone may prefer the colors/logos on one site vs another, some may prefer where one is located (located in my city/state/country vs the competitor). Some may care about the technology, wanting to support one supplier vs another.