You're like the people who said Dropbox wouldn't succeed, because they had no need for it, because they could just setup rsync. Fact of the matter is that mailg

You're like the people who said Dropbox wouldn't succeed, because they had no need for it, because they could just setup rsync. Fact of the matter is that mailgun seems to have empirical proof that a lot of programmers have no clue what they're doing, and would be willing to pay for something that makes their lives easier. That's like lesson #0 of hacker news: people will pay for things that make their lives easier.