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Warning: this post is an ad for an email list service. Secondly: how do they get away with charging people for an email list service? Is this for an Apple-like
by roel_v 14y ago
Warning: this post is an ad for an email list service.
Secondly: how do they get away with charging people for an email list service? Is this for an Apple-like cult of Basecamp users?
- fleitz 14y agoIt's $10 dollars, at this point you should be wondering how Starbucks can charge $2 for coffee. Or how Double Bubble can fleece kids for a whole 25 cents for some gum that probably costs less than a cent. The reason why they can charge it, is because I'd rather pay anyone $2 for coffee than have to lug around a coffee maker. Did you know that if you drive to a rest stop in Washington State they will give you FREE coffee?
- nthj 14y agoI'm a geek. I can get most any kind of server set up if I set my mind to it. My clients often pay me reasonably large sums of money to do things just like that. I'd never use an email list service. The fact that I don't know how to set one up is enough of a mental block that I don't really need one. But Breeze would just work. All I have to do is put in my CC number, I could do that in my sleep without a context switch. Or if I'm really lazy, I can forward the link to my EA with a note to "pay these guys" and I'm done. Just because we could use another service with only 5 minutes of work doesn't mean we will. Context switches suck. 37signals knows that. That's why they work really hard to make sure their stuff just works. [Side note: I just googled "email list service" to prove my point. I found http://www.mail-list.com/ http://www.mail-list.com/. There's like 16 steps before I get to actually, you know, send a freaking email. Andddddd I've already tabbed back over to HN because I just don't care anymore.]