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You know, I'm a developer and not a business type, so when I see a headline like this, my immediate first thought is "isn't email a solved problem? Aren't there

You know, I'm a developer and not a business type, so when I see a headline like this, my immediate first thought is "isn't email a solved problem? Aren't there already a ton of providers for this type of service?" So imagine my surprise that someone is raising millions of dollars to have another whack at it. It's always good to be reminded that solving big, new problems isn't necessarily more important to people than solving small, existing problems better.

JonLim 14y ago
> "Aren't there already a ton of providers for this type of service?" So many. However, it's a very large market that is still seeing plenty of growth, and being able to reach your captive audience reliably and consistently is still a problem, especially when your customers may be in different parts of the world. Deliverability is a different case in other parts of the world, funny enough. Different gatekeepers and even processes sometimes.
wyck 14y ago
As a developer who has good business sense I immediately look at their pricing. I am very impressed, this pretty much blows the other services out of the water. Switching to mailjet would save me thousands of $ a year, I was already in the proccess of doing so before this came up on hackernews (no idea it was a new start-up I found it via google).