11 ms·
MailChimp Annual Report
- umut 14y agoEmail delivery is almost commodity nowadays, This is what stands out (on top of a respectable quality of service of course)
- dangrossman 14y agoThey're in the commodity e-mail delivery service too -- Mandrill -- in addition to MailChimp. Pretty smart to reuse the hardware, staff and ISP/RBL relationships they established with MailChimp to also serve the SMTP-as-a-service market. I use both. I have sendmail on my servers set to route everything through Mandrill, so my apps don't need to be aware of what software/service I choose for e-mail delivery. I send newsletters/product announcement type mails with MailChimp for the design templates and subscription management.
- eli 14y agoOne could argue that services like Amazon SES make email delivery a commodity (though I'm personally not convinced of that). But that's not the market Mailchimp is in. There's a lot more to sending newsletters than an SMTP server. Amazon SES is not their competition.
- vinnybhaskar 14y agoThis breaks the paradigm of boring reports. The interface is fabulous. Clear and Concise.
- saumil07 14y agoI'm jaded with almost everything - and I still respect the hell out of MailChimp every time I see something new from them. Great company.
- cschmidt 14y agoIt is pretty - but it triggers a pet peeve of mine. I spend 30 seconds trying to get this page to "do something". It is just the photo and a blue bar a the bottom. No indication of "scroll down". I wonder how many people give up. I was close.
- jgj 14y agoAre you on an OS that hides the scrollbar? I scroll any time I hit a webpage anyway, but even if I didn't I would look over at my scrollbar and see that there is plenty of room to scroll before getting frustrated.
- cschmidt 14y agoNo it was there, I just don't tend to pay much attention to my scroll bar. It is way over there on the right. The designer of this page went to a lot of effort to make the blue bar at the bottom fill the entire page, without letting any of the "below the fold" content show. If you resize the window, it grows. I don't scroll pages unless there is a visual indication that something is there. I have a nice big screen, so many pages fit fine. Maybe I'm just an idiot who can't operate a browser properly, but I think this is a case of designer seeking elegance over usability.
- alaskamiller 14y agoThey probably wagered on people's tendency to use space bar to navigate pages.
- abraham 14y agoNewer Macs hide the scrollbar when the pag is not actually scrolling.
- fschwehn 14y agoright - that's why i missed it too. it was just the title that made me think "where's the report?". so i waited for something to happen (animation or so). next i tried to klick the page - maybe that would trigger the next slide? and finally i did scroll... nice butt by the way :-)
- rogerbinns 14y agoI only figured out the scroll down after seeing your comment. I was about to give figuring out their site was overloaded or similar and this was their fail whale equivalent. For the record Chrome for me uses a grey scrollbar with a grey handle. I have to look very carefully at a tiny part of my large screen to work out where the handle is. (I have no idea where Chrome picked up the wrong colours from.)
- examancer 14y agoI'm sure larger tech companies would love to do annual reports this way. If only reporting the number of pizza slices satisfied SEC mandated financial disclosure requirements...
- joecurry 14y agoI'm in IT Audit for a Big 4 doing SOX 404 testing daily, it might as well be pizza slices, the current regulations completely miss the point that bog down productivity much more than pizza slices do!
- deadairspace 14y agoWhite text on a light blue background is not what I would call beautiful.
- pc86 14y agoWhat browser are you using? There's a background image.
- deadairspace 14y agoChrome. There is an image at the top of the page, but the 'App' section has a light blue background. In fact, the following sections (support, operations, social, etc.) don't render at all for me - just a background with no text. Is the page not broken for anyone else? edit: Interestingly, the page doesn't render for me above a certain width of around 1000px. Was this intentional? It's pretty bad design either way.
- jimmmylost 14y agoAgree with you, That's a negative point.
- tpowell 14y agoName that font.
- ben336 14y agoproxima-nova. You can use your browsers web tools too look at that stuff
- sergiotapia 14y agoIs that the font that's sort of a "cheaper" Helvetica? (In price, not quality)
- dublinben 14y agoI don't know how much cheaper it is than real Helvetica. It's still pretty expensive.
- petercooper 14y agoIt's more a cheaper Gotham.
- nathos 14y agoalthough if you look at the history, Proxima Sans (precursor to Nova) was released several years before Gotham: http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/proximanova.html http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/proximanova.html
- ricardobeat 14y agoProxima Nova and Helvetica don't look alike much: http://render00.fontshop.com/fonts/font_rend.php?idt=f&id=114701&t=o&rt=AaBbCc+Handgloves&rs=36&bg=ffffff&fg=000000&w=560 http://render00.fontshop.com/fonts/font_rend.php?idt=f&i... http://render00.fontshop.com/fonts/font_rend.php?idt=f&id=226629&t=o&rt=AaBbCc+Handgloves&rs=36&bg=ffffff&fg=000000&w=560 http://render00.fontshop.com/fonts/font_rend.php?idt=f&i... The canonical Helvetica clones are Swiss721 (good) and Arial (terrible).
- chaistudios 14y agoDoes anyone know of a html template or framework built similarly to this? It's a unique layout.
- akaak 14y agolooks like twitter's bootstrap fw with scrollspy in action here. not certain though.
- simba-hiiipower 14y agoliking these 'annual reports'. got one from warby parker this morning as well: http://www.warbyparker.com/annual-report-2012 http://www.warbyparker.com/annual-report-2012 seems like a valuable exercise for startups to take
- akaak 14y agowarbyparker.com has a good take as well. I like the way mailchimp's report/page though. I sure hope that we would see more in the startup world.
- sergiotapia 14y agoI suggested my company use MailChimp to send cold-lead emails for our sales department and it has worked phenomenally well. Lots of closed deals, lots of profits and their website is very easy to use, especially with custom email templates. What more can I ask? I hope they don't get feature bloat and in fact, remove some un-used features. They are well worth your money.
- jtreminio 14y agoUnless I'm misunderstanding your use of "cold-lead", I don't think MailChimp TOS allows these types of emails. Last time I used them (over a year ago), you could only email people who had double-opted in to your emailing list, kind of making them not "cold-lead".
- sergiotapia 14y agoI may have misused the term 'cold-lead'. Basically we have a form where interested people can request information, then we add them to our lists. And it's TOS approved because MailChimp has an interview process when you signup and you explain what it is you're going to be doing with their services.
- hisyam 14y agoI'm kinda surprised that Mailchimp let you send sales email even though they said that it's not allowed. Check their guide: http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/is-my-list-okay-to-use-in-mailchimp http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/is-my-list-okay-to-use-in-ma...
- perydell 14y agoI'm interested in the 39,975 party poopers. Does that mean they kicked 39,975 users out for abuse?
- jchin 14y agoParty Pooper mode in MailChimp is where the MailChimp monkey doesn't tell any jokes. By default, the mode is on so I guess these 39,975 went out of their way to turn off the jokes.
- cnlwsu 14y agoI am really curious about the DMCA takedowns and subpoenas. For the record I like the site and it ran wonderfully for me, although that seems to not be the case universally reading other comments.
- hn-miw-i 14y agoUgh mail chimp. Isn't it incorporated in Belize? Former home of John "badass mutherfucker" McAfee? Home of endemic corruption from highest levels of government? And we hand over our email addresses? What?
- ricardobeat 14y agoThe Rocket Science Group, LLC dba MailChimp, a Georgia limited liability company Where did you get that?
- madaxe 14y agoPretty, but it's a shame that there are a few inconsistencies in the data. The most glaring one is that they have users in the Vatican City, but apparently no visitors from there. There are two other things that don't quite add up that I've spotted. Exercise for the reader. That all said, mailchimp is a great product.
- ricardobeat 14y agoIf you mean the "Smallest countries with visits to MailChimp", Vatican is 0.17 sq miles, but it's not a country ;)
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- lostlogin 14y agoI'm surprised at New Zealand's stats. How on earth did that happen?
- propercoil 14y agoI have a ~2700 subscriber email list with mailchimp and i want to pay $50/m but not until they make a decent plugin that isn't beta with heroku.