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From Show HN to Funding In Less Than 3 Months
- retube 14y agoThis is an interesting concept. I wonder what other physical processes could do with an API?
- jstreebin 14y agoI agree, there's lots in the online/offline chasm that could be filled
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- ajiang 14y agoPotentially, you could buy a digital printer and create an API for physical mail. It could effectively change the direct marketing industry.
- coconutrandom 14y agoDo you mean a fax machine?
- Natsu 14y agoI think he means where you send HTML (or a PDF) to a web service that does a mail merge, prints & bulk mails it for you. I had exactly the same thought as a logical next step when I saw this. Think of a print on demand web service for sending physical mail. You might even be able to do things like print it near the destination to take advantage of lower shipping rates.
- mehulkar 14y agoAnd then from HN Funding to Internal 500 Server Error in less than 42 minutes :p http://i.imgur.com/LxtdhqA.png http://i.imgur.com/LxtdhqA.png
- jstreebin 14y agohahah, oops, we'll work on that. Thanks
- mrchess 14y agoCongrats! How long did you spend build EasyPost before doing the initial Sep. 18th launch? EDIT: On a feedback note, 5% or less is very vague on the pricing page... Why not explain a bit further the upper and lower limits?
- jstreebin 14y agoThanks, spent several months working on it. We're launching a pricing page shortly!
- nawitus 14y agoI don't know why, but for some reason middle-clicking on a link does nothing on your page (instead of opening the URL on a new tab). I'm using Firefox.
- joncalhoun 14y agois this happening on all links or a few specific links? I am looking for the cause and I can't see any reason why this wouldn't work.
- nawitus 14y agoThe problem is there for almost all links. I noticed that Disqus links work fine. EDIT: The problem doesn't occur if I disable Javascript.
- ctidd 14y agoFirefox / Windows 8. It only appears to impact the blog post. If I go to your home page, middle clicking works as expected. Also, I'm getting a character encoding glitch that's rendering gibberish next to your login button. One last thing: it also looks like Tumblr is adding stuff to the top of your HTML. On the blog, I see two doctype declarations; one's on the first line, and one's at the very end of the second line.
- jstreebin 14y agoHey, not sure but we'll look into this. Thanks
- pan69 14y agoThis looks interesting but from this website I can't really distill what this service does, as in, what problem does it solve for me? Something with post and parcels etc. but it might be good to add a problem/solution section to your home page.
- jstreebin 14y agoWe make it easier to get postage via API. Existing postage APIs are difficult to integrate and have lots of errors. We take care of that and provide a RESTful JSON API with client libraries.
- danso 14y agoCongrats, and thanks for the post and example of what a well-described product can achieve. What's interesting to me is that OP had no actual alpha/beta product, just: "a simple bootstrap site with an email form and code samples (which I mimicked based on Stripe’s)." The Show HN simply brought feedback and signups and a week later an investor made contact. In the three months between the investor contact and actual funding, how much of your planned feature set had you implemented?
- jstreebin 14y agoThanks! We had most of what we planned to have done by that time. We fully launched a month later.
- sunsu 14y agoLooks very similar to https://www.postmaster.io/ https://www.postmaster.io/
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- jstreebin 14y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4598818 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4598818
- ebzlo 14y agoOne thing I'm always curious about is how you gauge success after a post on HN. While I understand there are variables for every business, I literally have nothing to use as a gauge other than my own experiences. So if you don't mind my asking, how many emails did you guys receive from being posted on HN?
- duck 14y agoWhat happened to your original domain of easypost.co?
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